1992 Los Angeles riots

The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the LA riots, the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, was sparked on April 29, 1992 when a mostly white jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. Thousands of people in Los Angeles, mainly young black and Latino males, joined in what has often been characterized as a race riot, involving mass law-breaking, including looting and arson.

External links

• Military operations during the 1992 Los Angeles riots - by a participating guardsman
• Lessons in command and control from the L.A. riots - Parameters, journal of the Army War College
• Flawed Emergency Response during the L.A. riots - professional article
• The LA Riots 1992 - An anarchist perspective focusing on riots, characterizes riots as political uprising.
• The L.A. 53 - full listing of 53 known deaths during the riots, from the L.A. Weekly
• L.A.'s darkest days - Christian Science Monitor retrospective and interviews with victims and participants

Photography

• Urban Voyeur - black and white photographs taken during the riots
• Aftermath of the Rodney King riots - photographs

Video

• Los Angeles riots - IFILM
• Video coverage of the Los Angeles riots - L.A. Times (registration required)