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On May 30, Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti authorized the deployment of the California National Guard overnight. On May 30, 2020, protesters put an LAPD officer in a chokehold and kicked the officer. Also in Los Angeles, a wheelchair-bound man was shot in the face with a rubber projectile; pictures of the man's bloody face were widely shared.
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 29, after a jury acquitted four ...
1992 Los Angeles riots. Compton was one of the cities in which riots and civil disturbances surrounding the acquittal of LAPD officers involved in the arrest and beating of Rodney King occurred. From the May 7, 1992 Los Angeles Times detailing the chronology of the riots and Compton Police Department involvement: Wednesday: About 7 p.m.:
Here’s a look at the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. The riots stemmed from the acquittal of four white Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of black motorist ... October 21, 1992 ...
May 1, 2024 at 8:45 PM. A woman prays in front of a line of California Highway Patrol officers next to a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) When ...
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 ...
Parker Center, initially named the Police Administration Building or Police Facilities Building, was the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1955 until October 2009. It was located in Downtown Los Angeles at 150 North Los Angeles Street. Often nicknamed "The Glass House", the building was named for former LAPD chief ...
Los Angeles’ Asian and Black communities will gather later this month in an event to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1992 uprisings. Organized by Asian and Black community leaders, the event ...