Former "rooftop Korean" who defended businesses during 1992 Rodney King riots claims current LA protests are politically ...

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 ...

LA protests far different from '92 Rodney King riots. By BRIAN MELLEY, ... but the King verdict was a catalyst for racial tensions that had been building in the city for years.

Demonstrators defacing the flag also chanted “Make it great like ‘92” in an apparent reference to the Rodney King riots of 1992 – the last time the National Guard was deployed to LA.

How the LA immigration protests differ from '92 Rodney King riots The last time a president sent the National Guard to respond to violence on LA streets occurred after the April 1992 acquittal of ...

The 1992 uprising took many by surprise, including the Los Angeles Police Department, but the King verdict was a catalyst for racial tensions that had been building in the city for years.

LA protests far different from '92 Rodney King riots. By BRIAN MELLEY, ... but the King verdict was a catalyst for racial tensions that had been building in the city for years.

FILE - In this April 30, 1992 file photo, smoke rises from a shopping center burned by rioters in Los Angeles after four police officers had been acquitted of the 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King.

But the unrest during several days of protests over immigration enforcement is far different in scale from the 1992 riots that followed the acquittal of white police officers who were videotaped ...

LA protests far different from '92 Rodney King riots. Brian Melley. ... but the King verdict was a catalyst for racial tensions that had been building in the city for years.