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LA protests far different from '92 Rodney King riots
- More than 50 individuals have been detained during demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles that started on Friday in response to raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which later escalated into violence.
- The recent unrest contrasts with the 1992 riots, which erupted after police officers were acquitted in the videotaped beating of Rodney King amid longstanding racial tensions.
- Police discharged more than 600 rubber rounds along with additional non-lethal ammunition, resulting in minor injuries to some officers, while protesters and journalists were also hit by the projectiles.
- President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard members along with several hundred Marines to respond to the protests, a move that was strongly opposed by Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom, who viewed it as an excessive measure.
- The protests have remained mostly peaceful and confined to downtown LA, marking a smaller scale and less destructive event than the deadly 1992 riots that lasted nearly a week and left over 60 dead.
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Ex-LAPD officer: Anti-ICE riot could rival Rodney King if Bass doesn’t quell
Former Los Angeles Police Officer Moses Castillo noted the similarities he sees between recent riots against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the 1992 Rodney King riots. The LAPD has issued dispersal orders and curfews in parts of Los…
1992 Rooftop Korean SPEAKS OUT amid 2025 LA riots
"Rooftop Korean" Tony Moon, who helped protect his Los Angeles community during the 1992 riots, speaks out amid the 2025 LA riots. He tells Glenn Beck why today's riots are very different than those in 1992: "they're NOT organic." TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errorsGLENN: From 1992, I believe this is the NBC report on the '92 riots in LA.Listen. VOICE: March 16th, 1991, Latasha Harlans, a black teenager is shot and kille…
A repeat of Rodney King? Local leaders say L.A.'s latest unrest is nothing like 1992
The deployment of soldiers to L.A. has evoked memories of riots that erupted when LAPD officers were acquitted of brutally assaulting a Black motorist, but officials from that era say the coordinated response that took place three decades ago bears little resemblance to recent days.
In 1992 'all hell broke loose' in LA, but this time is different
In 1992 the National Guard was called into Los Angeles to help control widespread, destructive rioting. But right now those forces appear to be escalating the situation and some experts are warning it is all in the name of "political theatre".
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