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The current unrest in Los Angeles is a lot different from the last time a U.S. president called out the National Guard to ...
A former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was on the force during the 1992 Rodney King riots said that Democrat ...
The deployment of soldiers to L.A. has evoked memories of riots that erupted when LAPD officers were acquitted of brutally ...
Federal troops in American cities have historical precedent, from President George H.W. Bush's response to Rodney King riots ...
March 3, 1991 - Rodney King is beaten by LAPD ... are acquitted of beating King. Riots start at the intersection of Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles. Reginald Denny, a ...
Here's what happened to Rodney King: In 1991 ... and Cabinet members for a meeting to discuss the riots, but not the Representative from Los Angeles. Standing up for the black community then ...
You can easily forget you're in South Central Los Angeles, approaching the site where America once crackled with suicidal madness. The Rodney King Riots—as they are frequently called ...
While the acquittal of police officers who were caught on video tape sadistically beating black motorist Rodney King may have been the catalyst that sparked the Los Angeles riots on April 29 ...
Throughout her long tenure in Congress, Rep. Maxine Waters has been a prominent and polarizing figure among Los Angeles ...