Underlying Causes Of The 1992 LA Riots

This video became a wide spread around Los Angeles and it caused a massive riot in the city that it became very violent. Eventually, the rioting stopped when the army was called in to control the situation. Many years later, there are still several cases of police misconduct happening in America.

Racial tensions between African Americans and Koreans had always been present especially after the incident with Latasha Harlins. When Latasha Harlins entered into Soon Ja Du’s store she was accused of stealing orange juice. “A year prior to the Los Angeles riots, storekeeper Soon Ja Du physically confronted black ninth-grader Latasha Harlins by grabbing her sweater and backpack over whether the 15-year-old had been trying to steal a bottle of orange juice from Empire Liquor, the store Du's family owned in Compton. After Latasha hit Du, Du shot Latasha in the back of the head, killing her. (Security tape showed the girl, already dead, was still clutching $2 in her hand when investigators arrived.)

One mile southeast from where the riots began, some African American teenagers were playing with a starter gun. Upon hearing the shots, National Guardsmen reported sounds of a sniper gun and several policemen showed up shortly after. Almost immediately after arriving, the policemen stormed the motel where they first encountered a 17 year-old African American teenager, Carl Cooper. Without questioning, the policemen shot down Cooper killing him instantly. Another group of officers stormed through the back door where they confronted Fred Temple, 18, and initially shot Temple to death.

In the end, over 50 people died, about one person for each time Mr. King was struck by the police. April, 2001, Timothy Thomas is shot and killed by a member of the Cincinnati Police Department. Riots broke out across the Over The Rhine community, where Mr. Thomas was shot. The community was in outrage over the killing of the unarmed teenager. An already dangerous community now became even more dangerous with all the uproar.

The city of Detroit is one of many cities that have had a significant impact on American culture. Moreover, Detroit also is important it was one of the cities that pioneered the civil rights movement. One of the major events that would go down as one of the most influential was the Race Riots of 1967, or more aptly known as the 12th Street Riots. The circumstances that lead to the riots were quite deep seated and bore historical significance. When, after the civil war slavery was abolished towards the end of the 19th century, many African Americans were left in doubts as to their future prospects.

Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Stacey Koon were the four officers who beat up Rodney King on March 3(Biography). Although not all of the officers were being accused of the same crime they all still faced many difficulties. The officers received many death threats because of how they treated King. Many people believed the officers did not deserve freedom and threatened their lives. Most of the officers were being accused of assault with a deadly weapon which would result in years of prison if convicted (Biography).The jury for the Rodney King trial threatened democracy and the fairness of the trial.

Sympathy for the South “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. conveyed an array of emotion. While reading, I felt feelings ranging from hope to complete outrage. The most prevalent emotion for me was sympathy. I also felt a sense of gratitude for the changes we were able to make in our society and culture. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” did a great job of inspiring sympathy in its readers by sharing examples of injustice, violence and dehumanization as it related to African-Americans of that era.

In the Inferno by Dante, we find many sins, each sin is divided into one of two groups. Either they are sins of incontinence or sins of malice. A sin of incontinence is the lesser of the two sins, these sinners are punished in upper hell and have committed crimes such as lust, gluttony, avarice, and anger. A sin of malice is the greater of the two sins, theses sinners are punished in lower hell and have committed crimes of force or fraud. When comparing the sins in the Inferno to the sins in the Ferguson Trial of 2014 the conclusion can be drawn that the major sins of the trial were the robbery of Cigarillos (a type of cigar) , death of an unarmed person, the seemingly corrupt nature of the Grand Jury’s decision not to indict police officer

what they thought was the solution was to start breaking things and protesting in violence like a child would. The riot nearly had three dozen juveniles arrested and more than 200 adults were taken into custody after people set fires to cars and businesses, with lots of looted stores. Nearly 150 cars were burned with a cost of nine million dollars total to the city of Baltimore. This has not been the only tragedy that was created by race. The 2015 Ferguson riots are another example.

These issues had plagued the city years before the riots. The citizens of Watts felt that a riot was necessary to bring attention to their situation. According to CBS news the riot could have been prevented if law enforcers moved in quicker and sealed off the area where the

Rodney King Riots Protest Movement Paper On April 29, 1992, A week of non stop urban violence and mayhem erupted in the streets and cities of Los Angeles, the riots were commenced by the unjust trial that let the four white police officers set free of any charges. All four officers were captured on videotape beating on a black motorist named, Rodney King after a traffic stop gone wild. The Rodney King riots impacted society greatly by presenting the nations people with an understanding of how racism was still present in america. A reminder that "justice for all" was still a long way off being set in stone and to followed by most people.

I believe these events could happen in Moreno Valley the majority people living in Moreno Valley are whites the second race is African Americans and browns. I believe racism has a big impact of these riots and crimes against each other. People move to Moreno Valley because of the property value. Blacks are coming from watts or Compton then we have the browns coming from Los Angeles to Moreno Valley, we are going to have the same problems how I like to call it is little Los Angeles.

In Martin Luther King’s Jr, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” the letter was a persuasive attempt to get Americans to finally see the inequality in the United States of America. Throughout King’s letter, he used various ways of persuasive strategies: pathos, logos, and ethos. But the strongest influential device King used was pathos. Now the word “strongest” has various meanings, but in this instance, it means the most successful.

The Rodney King riots impacted many people in the United States in many ways, and Matheson and Baade explain one large impact that they

No matter what color your skin is or the Ethnicity you are, we all bleed the same. Police have been around for many years. They are the people that we call to save us from danger, they’re also the people that protects the Citizens . Police means “The civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order”. So why is it that we 're afraid of the police?