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1. History Channel. "Riots erupt in Los Angeles."  History Channel. 2010  web 6 October 2016.
2. Regan Morris. " LA Riots how 1992 change the police." BBC News. 29 April 2012. web. 6 October 2016

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A lot more people were accused in the L.A. riots than in the Salem Witch Trials. The L.A. riots only lasted about 5 days the the Salem Witch Trials lasted for about 6 months.

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Rodney King first pleaded guilty on May 1, 1992, in Los Angeles. On April 29, 1992, the four white police officers were declared innocent by the jury of Ventura County in the beating of Rodney King.

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Looking back on the 1992 riots, some causes that led up to all of the beatings and burning buildings was  the four officers beating Rodney King.

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There was one billion dollars in property damage, over 4,000 buildings burned, 55 people killed, 2,000 people injured, 7,000 people arrested. The riot lasted only five days. One of the hardest hit towns was Koreatown. the shop owners took the violence in their own hands and said they were just trying to protect their livelihoods because the cops just bailed the riots were so bad. On the third day president bush sent out over 3,000 national guardsmen.

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The hysteria spread when a citizen with a personal camera was filming the arrest, and the 89 second video caught the police beating King with their batons and kicking him long after he was capable of resistance. A newspaper helicopter hovered over the street, recording the violence on Florence Boulevard and Normandie Avenue in south-central Los Angeles. Over more than 16,000 related riot crimes were reported.

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The Los Angeles riots of 1992 took place in Los Angeles, California. Four Los Angeles police officers and an unarmed African American motorist were involved in one of the scenes and eventually rioters in south central Los Angeles.  violence first erupted at the intersection of Florence Boulevard and Normandie Avenue in south-central Los Angeles. Rodney King, a paroled felon, led the police on a high-speed chase. Rodney resisted arrest, so he was brutally beaten by the three police officers, Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind.