Angelenos talking to Angelenos: Covering the L.A. riots when local news still mattered
By Lorraine Ali
Apr 28, 2017
Race relations had hit a boiling point and Los Angeles had exploded, the TV announcers said. Local newscasters we’d grown up with appeared as shocked as we were. It was Angelenos talking to Angelenos — reporters whose names you knew, covering a city they knew, with an army of camera crews. This was a family tragedy. Read the story »
Look what happens when we don't talk to each other': Korean American filmmakers' L.A. riots stories
By Jen Yamato
Apr 28, 2017
Edward Jae Song Lee was a month away from celebrating his 19th birthday when he was killed in the 1992 Los Angeles riots, caught in a crossfire of bullets reportedly while attempting to defend a Koreatown pizza parlor from looters. Lee’s mother saw her son’s body, lying on the sidewalk near 3rd Street and Hobart Boulevard, in a black-and-white photograph in the Korea Times the next day. Read the story »
He tried to cool a city's anger, only to watch helplessly as it burned during the 1992 riots
By Angel Jennings
Apr 28, 2017
Three days before the rioting began, the Rev. Cecil L. Murray of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church took to the pulpit for his Sunday sermon. “Be cool. Even in anger, be cool,” he implored. "And if you're gonna burn something down, don't burn down the house of the victims, brother! Burn down the Legislature! Burn down the courtroom!”Read the story »
For the late L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, national honor overlaps with a bleak anniversary
By Christopher Hawthorne
Apr 28, 2017
The late architect, the first African American to win the AIA Gold Medal, is slow to gain national renown partly because much of his archive burned in L.A. riots 25 years ago. Read the story »
Op-ed: In L.A., more racial harmony, more economic inequality
By Harold Meyerson
Apr 28, 2017
On the 25th anniversary of the Rodney King riots, Los Angeles is glowing with racial amity — and festering with economic disparity. We all are getting along just fine, it seems, and by the way, many of us are very poor, even though we work as hard as we can. Read the story »
The chief’s promise: The LAPD will never fail the city again
By Charlie Beck
Apr 27, 2017
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, who was a sergeant in the LAPD in 1992, reflects on the LAPD's role in the riots.Read the story »
How would the LAPD handle a riot today? More officers. More arrests. Better strategy
By Richard Winton
Apr 27, 2017
The riots that consumed Los Angeles 25 years ago had many causes — grinding poverty and hopelessness in South L.A., a police force with a reputation for treating minorities poorly, the not guilty verdict against the white officers who beat beating Rodney King. But police tactics — or lack of them — in the crucial hours when the rioting began are also considered a major factor in why the city burned for three days. Read the story »
They were kids in 1992. Here's how two Korean Americans are telling the story of the L.A. riots
By Victoria Kim
Apr 27, 2017
They were confused and scared, unsure of why their parents and all they had worked for had become targets of so much rage, or why they heard little to nothing of their Korean friends and neighbors’ experience of the riots in the ensuing years. Read the story »
Editorial: The violence of 1992 and the acrimony of today were born with the videotaped police beating of Rodney King
By The Times Editorial Board
Apr 27, 2017
As long as there have been police, officers have used force against suspected lawbreakers without the general public raising much of a fuss, except in those non-white communities that have been disproportionately affected by police force. But people cared about the King beating — they knew about the King beating — because they saw it.Read the story »
25 years after riots, South L.A. still waiting for its renaissance
By Steve Lopez
Apr 26, 2017
The 4300 block of Degnan Boulevard in Leimert Park has a look of faded glory, with its shuttered storefronts and stalled promise. Like so many parts of South Los Angeles, this is not what anyone would have hoped for when, a quarter of a century ago, the uprising in the Rodney King cop-acquittal case raised hopes of better days. Read the story »
L.A. riots by the numbers
By Los Angeles Times Staff
Apr 26, 2017
Deaths. Properties damaged. And in the riots' aftermath, changing demographics in the city and its police force. How the numbers tell the story. Read the story »
More L.A. residents believe new riots are likely, poll finds
By Victoria Kim and Melissa Etehad
Apr 26, 2017
A majority of Angelenos think another riot is likely in the next five years, and the number has increased for the first time after two decades of steady decline. Young adults ages 18 to 29, who didn’t directly experience the riots, were more likely than older residents to feel another riot was a possibility. Read the story »
Q&A: Filmmaker John Singleton on L.A.'s fragile progress since the 1992 riots
By Patt Morrison
Apr 26, 2017
Filmmaker John Singleton is executive producer of A&E’s documentary “L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later,” which airs Saturday and Monday. Singleton also appears in the film and brings to it the sensibility of a filmmaker, a South L.A. native and a man who was there as it happened.Read the story »
Timeline: The L.A. Riots
By Los Angeles Times Staff
Apr 26, 2017
After the announcement of the acquittals of four LAPD officers in the beating of Rodney G. King, Los Angeles convulsed with five days of violence. The flash point was a single intersection in South L.A., but in the hours and days that followed, the unrest spread to many parts of the city.Read the story »
At the corner of Florence and Normandie, marking causes of L.A. riots: 'It's important to remember what started it'
By Angel Jennings and Matt Hamilton
Apr 25, 2017
When angry mobs erupted in violence across Los Angeles 25 years ago this week, two names were commonly invoked by those in the streets. One is well-known: Rodney G. King, the black man beaten by a group of baton-wielding police officers. King survived his beating. Latasha Harlins, the other person invoked by looters, did not survive her injuries.Read the story »
From the Archives: L.A. Times staff covering the 1992 riots
By Scott Harrison
Apr 21, 2017
Following the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Times-Mirror Co. employee publication Among Ourselves published a special edition on the Times coverage. Read the story »
Three black men talk about Rodney King, 25 years later
By Dexter Thomas
Mar 3, 2016
A conversation between three black men at the Los Angeles Times: Kirk McKoy, a photographer who covered the events in Los Angeles after the not guilty verdict in 1992 that set off rioting, and two young writers who are still new to the Los Angeles Times staff: Tre’vell Anderson and Dexter Thomas.Read the story »
L.A. Times front pages
By Los Angeles Times Staff
Apr 30, 1992
See the Los Angeles Times front pages from the 1992 L.A. riots. Read the story »
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