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The troubles began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. The riots were a result of the African American community’s outrage over the verdict.
30 kwi 2022 · April 29, 2022 8:31 PM PT. Across South L.A. and Koreatown on Friday, Angelenos commemorated the 30th anniversary of the L.A. riots, recognizing the progress they’ve made and pledging more...
29 kwi 2022 · A California Highway patrolman directs raffic around a shopping center engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, 30 April 1992. Riots broke out in Los Angeles, 29 April 1992, after a jury...
The LA riots began on April 29, 1992, after four police were found not guilty for the beating of Rodney King. LA photographer Ted Soqui covered the riots over five days. He had also grown up...
A swap meet mall in downtown Los Angeles burns. Photo by Ted Soqui. Police officers form a line outside of LAPD headquarters, Parker Center, on the first evening of the LA riots.
26 kwi 2022 · Four photographers recall the moments leading up to and surrounding some of their most iconic photos of the L.A. uprising. Ted Soqui was a photographer for LA Weekly during the 1992 uprising,...
28 kwi 2017 · California. 25 years later | Images of the riots. A looter wheels a shopping cart full of diapers past a burning market on April 30, 2992. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) By Times staff....
