La riots

• LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Sunday marks a dark day in Los Angeles history. The First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles held a special observance 20 years after the beginning of the L.A. riots. The Rev.
(Abc Local Web)
• On tour promoting his new book, Rodney King, the Los Angeles man whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police became a flashpoint for the 1992 LA riots, is often asked to put his ordeal into contemporary terms.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Effects of the riots that engulfed parts of Los Angeles 20 years ago remain visible throughout the Inland region today.
(Riverside Press Enterprise)
• It was the intersection of everything that seemed wrong with Los Angeles: a drab urban junction turned into a crucible of rage, despair and anarchy.
(The Guardian)
• This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots and the first time I heard race being discussed on television. I was 10. The year before, I had watched the Rodney King beating on the news with my parents.
(msnbc.com)
• The Los Angeles riots erupted on 29 April 1992 after four white police officers were acquitted over the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. Anger led to days of looting and burning, 54 deaths and $1bn (£610m) of damage to the city.
(BBC News)
• It was 1992 when Los Angeles police were caught on tape beating Rodney King. The accused officers, who were white, were acquitted. People in L.A. rioted and racial tensions worsened.
(NBC Dallas-Fort Worth)
• HONOLULU —Craig Fujii spent the night of April 29, 1992, in two increasingly chaotic L.A. emergency rooms. On his right temple throbbed a large, ugly lump, striped with swollen veins. His head hurt, he kept saying, over and over.
(Los Angeles Times)
• About 100 Angelenos gathered at the FAME Renaissance building in the West Adams district of Los Angeles Friday to take part in a "Day of Dialogue" focusing on the Los Angeles Riots, two days before the twentieth anniversary.
(NBC Los Angeles)
• On March 3, 1991, a Lake View Terrace, Calif. resident named George Holliday filmed the beating of an unarmed black man at the hands of several Los Angeles Police Department officers.
(Huffington Post)