of the ongoing influence on popular culture of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. (Chronological, then alphabetical by title) In the film Terminator 2: Judgment...
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The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil...
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series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County in April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29...
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Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern...
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Rooftop Koreans (category 1992 Los Angeles riots)
residents during the 1992 Los Angeles riots who armed themselves and took to the rooftops of local businesses to defend themselves. The unrest in urban areas was...
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Los Angeles City Hall today. From 1891 to 1902, the venue was where gatherings of gay men including "she boys" occurred. LGBT culture in Los Angeles has...
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shot her in the head. Some historians view Du's posting bail as the breaking point in tensions.[clarification needed] The 1992 Los Angeles riots stimulated...
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Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington...
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led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, while the 1997 Rampart scandal led to the disbandment of CRASH. Also in 1997, outgunned LAPD officers in North Hollywood...
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Zoot suit (category Jazz culture)
said to believe in assimilation and racial uplift theory. This tension exploded in 1943 in a series of anti-Mexican riots in Los Angeles that became termed...
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Killing of Latasha Harlins (category 1992 Los Angeles riots)
extremely light, and a failed appeal reportedly contributed to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, especially the targeting of Koreatown. The killing of Harlins came...
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James N.; Hughey, Matthew W. (2007). "Los Angeles (California) Riots of 1992". Encyclopedia of American race riots. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 376–85...
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commercial neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California, originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel...
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riots both before and after its independence. Here is a list of riots in India: List of massacres in India Religious violence in India List of riots in...
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Rodney King (category 1992 Los Angeles riots)
acquittals, the 1992 Los Angeles riots began, lasting six days. African-Americans were outraged by the verdicts and began rioting in the streets along...
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attitudes. Reaction to police brutality resulted in the Watts riots of 1965 and in the Los Angeles riots of 1992, after the Rodney King beating. Charges of...
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frequently a theme in Japanese popular culture, including film, manga, anime, and video games. Shinto has influenced Japanese culture and history and as...
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a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located in the city's Northeast region. It was one of the first subdivisions of Los Angeles and is inhabited...
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Pachuco (category Youth culture in the United States)
Zoot Suit Riots. The Sleepy Lagoon murder was a confrontation between two Los Angeles pachuco gangs that resulted in a crackdown on the culture. Cholo and...
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Crips–Bloods gang war (category African-American history in Los Angeles)
The Crips and the Bloods, two street gangs founded in Los Angeles, California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. The war is made up of smaller...
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East Los Angeles (Spanish: Este de Los Ángeles), or East L.A., is an unincorporated area situated within Los Angeles County, California, United States...
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Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous...
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles...
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The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball...
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Orthodox Jewish residents, damaged their homes, and looted businesses. The riots began on August 19, 1991, after two 7 year-old children of Guyanese immigrants...
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of the city of Los Angeles, California in the United States of America. 8,000 BCE – Chumash and Tongva Tribes inhabited the Los Angeles Basin for thousands...
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King and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. "Killing in the Name" was released as the lead single from Rage Against the Machine in November 1992. It reached number...
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Daryl Gates (redirect from Chief: My Life in the LAPD)
officials he'll quit" Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1991. Reinhold, Robert (May 5, 1992). "Riots in Los Angeles: The Overview; As Rioting Mounted, Gates Remained...
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and it was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later. The riot was prominently featured in the news media, with live television...
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commission was formed, the officers involved in the King beating were acquitted, leading to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The following are, verbatim, some of...
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