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12,111 [2][3] Damage. $1 billion. The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) [4][5] were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April ...
Robbery. The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers ...
LA 92. (film) LA 92 is a 2017 American documentary film about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, directed by Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin. [5] It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2017, opened in theaters on April 28, 2017 and aired on National Geographic Channel on April 30, 2017. [6]
The Cooper Do-nuts Riot was an alleged uprising in reaction to police harassment of LGBT people at a 24-hour donut cafe in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Whether the riot actually happened, the date, location and whether or not the cafe was a branch of the Cooper chain are all disputed, and there is a lack of contemporary documentary evidence, [1] with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ...
The post There’s a Riot Goin’ on: A Look Back on the 1990s Rave Riots in Los Angeles appeared first on SPIN. It was New Year’s Eve 1996. They had booked the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los ...
Reginald Oliver Denny (born 1953) is a former construction truck driver who was pulled from his truck and severely beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. His attackers, a group of black men who came to be known as the " L.A. Four ", targeted Denny because he was white. The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter and broadcast live ...
Rooftop Koreans. Rooftop Koreans or Roof Koreans refer to the Korean American business owners and residents during the 1992 Los Angeles riots who armed themselves and took to the rooftops of local businesses to defend themselves. The unrest in urban areas was sparked by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating ...
Caused by. Police brutality. Institutional racism against African Americans [1][2] Reaction to the murder of George Floyd. Economic, racial and social inequality [2] This is a list of protests that took place in Los Angeles County, California following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while in police custody.