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2:02 PM, April 29th, 2012
Looking back today I’m not sure how I think the city or the country has changed for the better. Some things have shifted, but many more things have stayed exactly the same. How can you really think or talk of change or improvement when we have situations like the Trayvon Martin case occurring almost 20 years to the day of the L.A. riots? Twenty years later, you have this kid who was younger than Rodney King and deader than Rodney King.
Arsenio Hall on Filming From L.A. Riots’ Ground Zero
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1:04 PM, April 29th, 2012
Zoom A man removes a couch from a store in South Central Los Angeles in this April 30, 1992 file photo, as looting and rioting continued throughout the area. See more dramatic photos of the looting and rioting.

A man removes a couch from a store in South Central Los Angeles in this April 30, 1992 file photo, as looting and rioting continued throughout the area. See more dramatic photos of the looting and rioting.

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Rodney King
11:02 AM, April 29th, 2012
It’s been tough on some level to get myself to where I wanted to be or where I needed to be as a black man in this country….You feel like you’re always fighting for something or trying to run away from something or people’s attitudes towards you. That can wear you down to the point of always making bad decisions.
Rodney King
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Rodney King
10:01 AM, April 29th, 2012

On April 29, 1992, four LAPD officers were acquitted on charges of beating black motorist Rodney King. The verdict sparked a six-day furor in South Central L.A. that left more than 50 people dead and $1 billion in damages. The beating may have gone unnoticed if not for a nearby witness who had videotaped the attack. The domino effect of violence that the acquittal sparked played out on televisions across the country.

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12:08 PM, April 27th, 2012
Zoom Twenty years ago, photographer Ted Soqui faced down guns and fire to capture the violence engulfing Los Angeles. Now he’s going back and shooting the same spots.  View the Los Angeles Riots: Now & Then

Twenty years ago, photographer Ted Soqui faced down guns and fire to capture the violence engulfing Los Angeles. Now he’s going back and shooting the same spots. 

View the Los Angeles Riots: Now & Then

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