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(Alphabetical by artist) 2 Chainz's song "Riot" begins by talking about April 29, 1992.; 2Pac's song "Hellrazor" is dedicated to Latasha Harlins – "Little girl like LaTasha, had to die, She never got to see the bullet, just heard the shot, Her little body couldn't take it, it shook and dropped, And when I saw it on the news I see busta girl killin 'Tasha.
In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that erupted after the not-guilty verdict for the police officers who were filmed beating Rodney King, a task force consisting of members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the LAPD, the Long Beach Police Department, the Inglewood Police Department, the Compton Police Department, and the ...
Co-starring Tyrese Gibson and Ray Liotta, Ariel Vromen's low-grade crime movie lunges for unearned sociopolitical depth by using the L.A. riots as set dressing.
"April 29, 1992 (Miami)" is a song written by American rock band Sublime in 1996 from their eponymous album Sublime. [1] The song title refers to the date of the beginning of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, [2] of which news spread throughout the United States following the acquittal of four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
Many Korean Americans in Los Angeles refer to the event as 'Sa-I-Gu', meaning "four-two-nine" in the Korean language (4.29), in reference to April 29, 1992, which was the day the riots started. Over 2,300 mom-and-pop shops run by Korean business owners were damaged through ransacking and looting during the riots, sustaining close to $400 ...
The acquittal of four police officers for the March 1991 beating of twenty-five-year-old Black motorcyclist Rodney King—a two-minute assault captured on video and watched by millions of ...
Consisting entirely of archival footage, the documentary chronicles the 1992 Los Angeles riots after 25 years have passed. [7]It includes film and video from the 1965 Watts Riots, the 1973 election of Tom Bradley, the 1978 promotion of Daryl Gates, the shooting of Latasha Harlins, the Rodney King videotape and the subsequent riots and violence that erupted after the acquittal of the officers ...
Latinos in Los Angeles discuss the 30th anniversary of the L.A. riots and what has changed in policing and the Latino community since then.