“Can’t we all just get along?” Those were the words spoken by Rodney King after his beating touched off one of the deadliest riots in US history and; after the police officers who beat him, were acquitted of the charges. There is no foul play suspected in the drowning death of Rodney King. Rodney King was found […]
– By Sylvester Monroe The 1992 Los Angeles riots were one of the biggest stories of my career and among the most personal. I wasn’t just a reporter covering the worst civil unrest in modern U.S. history. I was also an African-American man and father of an adolescent son ever mindful of close encounters of […]
As a 22-year-old white kid from New Jersey fresh out of college, Mark Ford encountered the Los Angeles riots of April 1992 the way most Americans did — through journalist Bob Turr’s striking helicopter footage of the violence at Florence and Normandie avenues. Turr’s impromptu narration as a white outsider literally looking down on South […]
