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to what extent did the 1992 LA riots have an impact on the Black Lives Matter movement of today?

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The LA riots were sparked by a man named Rodney king who was driving on the freeway when two LA police officers pulled Rodney king over and pulled him from his car then proceeded to beat him up

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“The city looked like a war zone,” said Carmen Ramos Chandler, CSUN director of information and former reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News who covered the riots. “There was ash and smoke everywhere and for the life of me, I couldn’t understand why people were running into burning, collapsing buildings just to loot.”

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George HW. Bush condemned the riots and the LA pd for their actions. The president ended up sending riot police trained to contain the rioting. He was also proactive in trying to end the rioting.

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The riots ended up lasting for six days and ended up costing 1 billion dollars in damages. Rioters set 3,600 fires and upwards of 2,600 people were injured.

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Around 1,100 buildings were burned down during the riots.

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64 people died from either the la pd firing at officers or from the buildings and cars that had been set on fire. No members of law enforcement were killed

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The government could have sent more police in to la to help stop the rioting. So they could have been better, but hindsight is always 20/20

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So did the video of Rodney king getting brutally kicked spark the Black Lives Matter movement?

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So to answer the question, was the Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the la riots? It is debatable, in the name of police brutality yes it would make sense that BLM would March for that cause. but  it does make sense that BLM got some ideas from the actions of the rioters in 1992.

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