Still Trying to Understand the L.A. Riots

What really happened — and what didn’t? 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When we think of them, some ready-made images come to mind: burning buildings casting billowing clouds of smoke into the skies above South Los Angeles, disinhibited crowds rushing into unguarded storefronts, armed conflict between rioters and Korean American shop owners. Most of all, it recalls the images of the intersection of Florence and Normandie, where a crowd gathered to vent their frustration over the acquittal of the four officers who beat the Black motorist Rodney King the previous year. But the conflagration that took hold after the King trial wasn’t constrained to that neighborhood and was not restricted to Black Angelenos. These incidents constituted the first multiethnic class riots in American history, an eruption of fury at the socioeconomic structures that excluded and exploited so many in Southern California. In 1992, Héctor Tobar was a young reporter at The Los Angeles Times when the city erupted in violence. 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