Funeral Held For Executed Crips Founder Stan "Tookie" Williams
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LOS ANGELES-RIOTS-RODNEY KING
Rodney King, the Los Angeles motorist whose beating by police was captured on videotape, smiles, 01 May 1992 in Beverly Hills, during a press conference, where he called for the end of violence in the city. The 1992 Los Angeles riots, with looting and arson events, erupted 29 April 1992 when a mostly white jury acquitted the four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King, after he fled from police. 52 people were killed during the riots and Rodney King became a reluctant symbol of police brutality. (Photo credit should read ROBERT SULLIVAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Watts Race Riots In Los Angeles
A group of Black men are confronted by state troopers with bayonets at a street corner in the Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles, California, circa 1960s. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)
SIMPSON-GLOVES
O.J. Simpson looks at a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves which the prosecutors had him put on for the jury 21 June 1995 during his double murder trial in Los Angeles. The gloves were the same type found at the Bundy murder scene and the O.J. Simpson estate. AFP PHOTO VINCE BUCCI (Photo credit should read VINCE BUCCI/AFP/Getty Images)
20 Years Since The Rodney King Verdict Sparked Infamous L.A. Riots
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