La Riots Research Paper

The la riots were one of the biggest events to happen in history which took place in Los Angeles California. People were angry about the Rodney king trial. Rodney king, born on April 2 1965 born in Sacramento California was in a high-speed chase on march 3, 1991 . When he finally stopped, and was pulled over the police men pulled him out of the car and started beating him really badly when he was finally caught by a Los Angeles police. He got a brutal beating while a nearby amateur camera man by the name of George Holliday caught it all on video tape. Four Los Angeles police officers were involved in this case of Mr. king’s beating.
The four L.A.P.D officers that was involved in the case were indicted and charged with assault of a deadly weapon and
Usually they have so much hate for each other that they end up killing each other most of the time but when the riots start the violence between the two gangs start to slow down. The decided to put their differences aside because they see a bigger problem going on that affects and harms everyone including them. So, the Crips and bloods calla truce between them while these riots were going and that not the only thing. Also, this was a big moment in time where police brutality was talked about in hip hop by artist such as Tupac, N.W.A, and KRS1 who involved their music highly with police brutality and has dealt with run ins with the cops during their life. The L.A riots change the city forever but it showed that if something wrong is done repeatedly eventually it will end in disaster. the riot over five days of spring in 1992 listed more than fifty people dead and more than 2,000 injured, which was more that the Watts rebellion. The rioting also destroyed or damaged over 1,000 buildings in the area. The estimate cost of the damage was over 1 billion dollars. To gain order back from the chaos in the L.A. streets there was a dispatch of 9,800 national guard soldiers to