The LA Riots, 25 Years Later: Day 1

Rodney King verdicts swept the city into some of the most-destructive rioting in U.S. history. Dave Lopez reports.

[@blakedavis2447]

“It couldn’t happen again” 2020: *laughs*

[@boldngold5204]

Look up Kazakhstan riots, it’s happening again

[@kaypee4704]

Check out BLM and Antifa...⁉️⁉️⁉️

[@undrwatropium3724]

Also laughing in mid 2022

[@christopherhorsford5658]

Actually 2017 😠

[@christopherhorsford5658]

@@undrwatropium3724 Actually 2017 😠

[@undrwatropium3724]

I couldn't believe this verdict. It's insane. It was on every news channel

[@todd9016]

Look, Evan his Barber Shop has bars on the windows.

[@morninmichigan1824]

Today at least that is standard on most businesses and homes in South LA and Compton areas

[@undrwatropium3724]

Standard for everyone in a large city

[@SebastianVG85]

This year marks the 30th Anniversary of that tragic event.

[@KyleGD]

yeah. May the poor victims Rest In Peace and may God bless the dead and alive ones.

[@johnnyboy-ws3we]

I was turning 3 in nj when the la riots was going on and i was also about to be a big brother in 3 months when la riots happened i still can't believe it's been over 30 years now

[@FieryJuniper]

I don't understand why they picked on the Korean community... Blame the failed law

[@el_piter33]

Chee Xiong there was incident where a store owner killed a kid because of an incident

[@rito6330]

john smith eh from the facts I heard the Korean woman thought he was gonna steal some oranges. There was a scuffle and he turned to leave but the Korean woman shot him square in the back of the head. People said it was a shot to kill so..... Yuh

[@dannyboyy6063]

Because they fucked up on the chicken wings order

[@genericign]

L O And if someone says your ethnicity are all racists then you'll claim that someone is generalizing? Don't play by generalizations.

[@genericign]

El_Piter33 Nah they were going to get looted regardless of that incident. Even Black businesses were pillaged and burned down.

[@brandontran5910]

I'm feeling sad for Los Angeles but not that riot like that in Phoenix Arizona.😥😥

[@cjohnson784]

It was well noted that the LA riots wasn’t a race riot, it was a class riot. African Americans and latino's couldn't get a bank around them to help them set up business themselves. Along came the Korean's who set up shop all throughout LA in areas no one else would set up. The African Americans and Latino's were mad as H because of that and so everything they did from run the stores and shops to having their families with them was taken out of context. They clashed hard. The Koreans just wanted to help bring stuff into the areas like all other neighborhoods had. They thought they were helping.

[@teleguy5699]

Thanks for that thoughtful reply.

[@ZTGTHEGAMER]

And because of the black girl who was killed in a Asian store by a racist women and the fact asian normally treqted the black community with contempt and it showed when the lady killed the girl over orange juice which she was trying to pay for. They didnt gove a damn about setting up shops in black neighborhoods its the fact they stayed to themselves treated black people like shit and crossed the line killing a little girl.

[@BenClason]

Same bad deal in middle America as Clinton and Bush sold off the land to China. It was an excuse for freebies.

[@CARLIN4737]

thats a race riot then?

[@cjohnson784]

@@CARLIN4737 No. Word was the area was poor and the ones applying really couldn't afford it. This is what I understood if you can find differently then go for it. The Koreans had back up on top of the loans.

[@HornetHKensa]

Imagine if a North Korean mass freedom uprising happens...

[@SurgeCess]

My mind feels like Florence and Normandy normally.

[@lynneboreham]

Surge-Alvez It's Normandie not Normandy.

[@babygirl6789]

Surge Álvez i wanna go there someday

[@SurgeCess]

@@lynneboreham hey i'm south american, give me a break

[@brianzzz6075]

Minnesota should have done this after the philando castle verdict

[@RandomPerson-uv8pf]

The philando shooting was not intentionallt. The philando shooting took place because the cop was a rookie

[@jojokintel]

I think the best we can do is separate.

[@SandeepSingh-wr2uu]

You spoke too soon..

[@brownie3454]

@@RandomPerson-uv8pf infringe on a black man’s 2nd amendment and you don’t bat an eye. infringe on the white mans and you’d lose your damn minds

[@kusanagibonjet]

I watching this because of GTA San Andreas Riot Mission

[@j.s.9964]

Where can i watch the whole LA burning 25 years later

[@darealdemrie]

Tha riot happened after latasha harlins was killed by tha korean store owner hut they dont talk about that

[@thedon8594]

Rodney King was such an upstanding citizen. Worthy of burning, killing hurting and looting. Took a lot of brains to do this. They have only grown smaller.

[@3on324]

That’s a straight lie and you know it

[@biggalaxy9102]

​@@3on324 White people will never understand until they are put under the same duress. You can't expect them to understand until they live it.

[@senilejoe7932]

Just say George Floyd it’s not about race it’s not about justice. It’s about getting a new television sat yo-yo. Yo, you know what I’m saying

[@realhamonwry8620]

​@@senilejoe7932- Interesting story. Have you ever been evaluated for autism?

[@serg1984LA]

Who’s here after the riots happening now 2020 Coronavirus riots !!

[@usspotato4900]

When you and the whole neighborhood is dry on supplies

[@wesleymcjunkin687]

It wouldn't do for an attractive white guy driving an nice, expensive sports car through Florence and Normandie on April 29,1992. 8-20-2023

[@jamesmoss3424]

It was hell on earth in L.A at the time.

[@andrespelayo6833]

At least the library, schools,and job centers where save.

[@victordiaz7921]

I was four years old during the riots, living near Pico and Western. I don't remember much but my parent's neighbor's son, during early curfew hours, and unarmed, was shot in the back of the head by a National Guard officer for stealing a pair of shoes from a store now replaced by a storage facility on Normandie. The police claimed the kid didn't obey the officers orders and brandished something shiny that look like a gun and ran off. His family nor ours didn't go out and protest. They just considered him an idiot for not obeying the law.

[@johnsmith-lh6ym]

don't steal

[@beamjohn9753]

Victor Diaz they could’ve shot him with a bean bag

[@dannynicastro3207]

john smith absolutely right.

[@NoName-gt5mc]

He shouldn’t have been adding to the civil unrest. Glad he’s dead

[@mikkelmortenrasmussen3821]

Then dont Steal.

[@mariacolburn3300]

That wouldn't happen if we just had justice

[@cupholder7758]

The majority of looters in the Pico Union area are illegal aliens. Rampart division is 8 square miles with 250,000 people living there. Most of them didn't give a shit about Rodney King. They came out to steal just like they did in 1994 after the Northridge earthquake. I know. I was a police officer there.

[@technowarriorstv]

This is the biggest super eruption in human history 3500km3 of meteral was belted out in a week

[@kingjeremysircornwell7847]

All were sick with dog/dog poop. Crime to own liv with dog/animals inside city limits, get the dog's out! Wart people are murders.

[@kingjeremysircornwell7847]

A fat white woman walking down the Sunset strip with a Pekingese started the La riots. High on dog poop warts a vallum/benzos.

[@toy_cindy05lolirock37]

To be honest I don't want the riot to start again I was born in 2005 but I never knew about this I'm scared.i want god and Jesus to know that they hope there is no riot coming in the future.

[@AlexMR]

TOY_CINDY05 LoLirock lol you can't tell God anything. I thought he had the plan. Smh.

[@mrnobody9193]

TOY_CINDY05 LoLirock hopefully it wont, however it proves how the first two amendments are there to protect your free speech and person. Don't surrender it because at the time it feels right. Look up the Koreans during the riot that defended their property and lives.

[@riski--9022]

TOY_CINDY05 LoLirock god isn't going to protect you, a gun is.

[@3on324]

TOY_CINDY05 LoLirock unless the riot is necessary and peaceful for the great or good of humanity

[@MayaWaya]

Yes this was huge, and hate to break it to you sweetheart, but we are living this TODAY. Currently over Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, but OVERALL for justice, equality, and to stop racism

[@ryanmc1196]

The governments only fear is people standing as one when people as one relies they have the power the better , alone you are weak together you are strong never forget that

[@biggalaxy9102]

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

[@chrisferguson5381]

Riots don't help

[@3on324]

Chris Ferguson sometimes

[@chrisferguson5381]

@saints0931 that's right war generates money

[@alvarosandoval3340]

More boder patrol Agents renforcent the Borders🇺🇲

[@nathandiaz4167]

Wait this happen the same day as noho bank shootout

[@jf8050]

Can't we all just get along?

[@ezequielescoto6493]

😢

[@maxmulsanne7054]

That's a nice looking barber shop.

[@jf8050]

No hate crimes that day?

[@elootl]

Terrible neighborhood with people behaving like barbarians.

[@ZippyPiglin36]

They are more American than what any White American has been. So take that as you will...

[@gcboy16]

It’s was a flash point in American history

[@sgthabluedevil3269]

Dats rite Florence

[@michaeljames955]

Isaiah 13:4-6

[@Chamorrita-rg9qp]

damn! i as watching freedom writers yesterday and remeber the riots in the beginning! these are parts in the movie.

[@carolinelane9599]

Whilst King should nevet have been beaten. These twits acted like animals and destroyed their own communities. Yep shows the level of intelligence.

[@takethesky8478]

@@3on324 Racist? What word of what she said was racist you dreg?

[@ShaneKilpatrick-i4t]

Show me a better place for men to exchange ideas and express themselves. Bars/ Pubs don’t count. Alcohol queers the pitch. Ideas lead to discussions and debate. Ultimately changes in laws, attitudes and hopefully better outcomes

[@jonmckenzie8952]

Working 🎉in Hampden? (Do they know about Racism! Charles Sizzle Burger) to @ Keith Garrett…😮.

[@Whiteboy39thchi]

It definitely can happen again LT blinded because his son is a cop so he can’t say anything negative 😩

[@alangurrola7192]

bad

[@anandguruji83]

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF LOS ANGELES RIOTS

[@fifa_07]

GTA SAN ANDREAS

[@junewhonkwon734]

People call 1992 LA riot but not everyone who plundered the shop is black, but today only black people are remembered for their fault. The surface is different from the inside. There are always separate profiteers behind the scenes when big things happen. Remember Malcolm X, not just the blacks, but all races, when you meet problem what our real enemies are. Even if I wanted to express my voice and anger, Meaningless violence can never win public support, and it's like instantly becoming an unjustified terrorist group and putting a knife in their throat. I hoped that people all over the world will study how Korea has achieved its demands democratically. To never let that happen again in the world.

[@dtna]

Many hispanic looters, which the news media did not report. They were just opportunists.

[@sotolongo8039]

But they caused most of the riots, they kicked out white and Asian people out of their cars and lynched them just for no logic reason

[@duomusicoffical]

It wasn't a riot it was a rebellion

[@SCP-yl3ff]

Toward Korean?

[@valuecalc]

Adrian K , it was sheer stupidity. Thankfully, Malibu was safe.

[@jojokintel]

Lol you call it a rebellion where you burn down half of los angeles, kill 58 people, injure 2,700, burn down 5,800 buildings, and do 1 billion in damages. Why is that a "rebellion?" What were you rebelling against? Can't you see that the destruction was overkill? You did this for Rodney? All of this? Seems like you were feeling your power, seeing how far you could push things. The experiment has failed. Not because of culture, or white privilege, or racism. The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, the reflexive animosity. The sooner we separate the better.

[@jojokintel]

Lol you call it a rebellion where you burn down half of los angeles, kill 58 people, injure 2,700, burn down 5,800 buildings, and do 1 billion in damages. Why is that a "rebellion?" What were you rebelling against? Can't you see that the destruction was overkill? You did this for Rodney? All of this? Seems like you were feeling your power, seeing how far you could push things.

[@teleguy5699]

@Tarzan Your mother likes black men.

[@unknownprofiler5792]

So that's what old like skins look like

[@nezam100]

No matter which race or religion and language workers have, they should be warmly united and organize themselv in a revolutionary leninistisk party to overheat and create a socialist revolution. Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat to crush the resistance of reactionariesand defensers of anti human class society.

[@johnsmith-lh6ym]

yeah, bottom line you do that you get Iran 1979, and then you have todays Iran, once a first world nation of equal rights female doctors, lawyers to what you have today mullahs or modern day thugs, and Venezuela modern day thugs, and Cuba modern day thugs, so you want obuma bullshit be ready to be broke and enslaved, taxes, mandatory health care where they then tax your tax refund and threaten prison, and you vote USSR type shit you get eventually USSR type prison. Even USSR went back to being Russia albeit corrupt at least it isn't USSR sanctioned corruption. you get it, no obuma voters must learn the hard way. read like Lord Acton said 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' get it? Read Orwell 1984, Animal Farm you obuma cuckolds never get it. weak minds equal weak lives of weak politics.

[@Hastur876]

You haven't read your Marx. The rioters in LA were the parasitic lumpenproletariat. They don't organize, they just parasitize society. In Leninist Russia, such parasites (the unemployed and thieves) were recognized as counterrevolutionary and were marched off to the gulags to die.

[@portialwalker7396]

Like say Before We wanna Justice For Latasha Harlins in we didn't it get iT iN That's What Happened 💣💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💣💣💣💣💣

[@valuecalc]

Portia L Walker , let the courts handle the cases.

[@deondraemorris7603]

@@valuecalccourts are corrupt

[@nhatky92105]

Can I swat car, Get a machine gun on top, Load it to make an automatic sound, than they run

[@3on324]

nhatky92105 they can’t kill them if so a lot of money is gone due to no work and no open stores so either kill half of l.a and lose money or wait till it’s over

[@therealkingtytrill2661]

Hell with marching

[@3on324]

The real king Ty Trill26 FUCK MARCHING LETS BLOW SHIT UP TO GET OUR POINT ACROSS

[@valuecalc]

Ayami-iris Ya girl likes anime , and go to jail for it, too.

[@UlicesBecerril-fs4pz]

Suge night .

[@brothermohdhanif375]

those people need a job. and find the button to calm the black peoples

[@beamjohn9753]

Find a better employment other than trolling

[@valuecalc]

beam john, whom are you addressing?

[@beamjohn9753]

sandinyourshoes you. You wouldn’t dare walk into a black neighborhood and say this and you know you wouldn’t

[@valuecalc]

beam john, in other words, thugs have to resort to acting like thugs with sensible people who don't agree with their primitive behavior? Is it always about violence? Do blacks fear being among a crowd of whites? You've increased racial tension to the highest levels. Yes. The highest.

[@beamjohn9753]

sandinyourshoes no you do..and not all black are thugs just as we see not all whites are racists..white racists have had dumb theory that blacks are all slow and can’t do much it’s like some of you guys are living within a box.And what about white male schilling shooting huh? It’s always a whites male doing some terrorist shyt for a cause.Fuck equality! We’re done taking shyt form racists whites who don’t wanna change the way the think

[@wignastykniggy1842]

I wish I was there ...I would've looted some ketchup packs

[@ucejuicegaming518]

I was 16. I was part of that. 😂

[@3on324]

UCE JUICE GAMING YOU SHOULDVE JOINED

[@takethesky8478]

Then you're a piece of shit 🤣

[@ulevlsy6745]

The riot tell me the story.

[@liverbird956]

Your parents must be so proud!

[@willieclassberry4853]

Don't. Beat yourself up kid another riot will again

[@valuecalc]

And the same idiots will destroy their own communities. Such ignorance.

[@warchild5885]

They fall for all the Democrat tricks

[@christopherhorsford5658]

Kyra Sedgwick @KyraSedgwick Saw L.A. Riots 🪧

[@christopherhorsford5658]

Actress Kyra Sedgwick @KyraSedgwick Saw L.A. Riots 🪧

[@jonmckenzie8952]

Stop 🛑 😢Racism! (Defacto Segregation.$)?

[@nicholasguerrero4097]

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[@nicholasguerrero4097]

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