A scholar who studies the politics of protests weighs in on the potential fallout from the episode in Los Angeles.

Tyrese Gibson lived through the LA riots. In ‘1992,’ he revisits that time. The film, which opens Aug. 30, also stars Christopher Ammanuel, Scott Eastwood and the late Ray Liotta.

Tyrese Gibson lived through the LA riots. In ‘1992,’ he revisits that time. The film, which opens Aug. 30, also stars Christopher Ammanuel, Scott Eastwood and the late Ray Liotta.

Tyrese Gibson lived through the LA riots. In ‘1992,’ he revisits that time. The film, which opens Aug. 30, also stars Christopher Ammanuel, Scott Eastwood and the late Ray Liotta.

LOS ANGELES — Marquette Frye, whose scuffle with police after a routine traffic incident on a muggy summer night in 1965 ignited the Watts riots, has died of pneumonia, a coroner’s spokesman ...

“The Watts riots were in 1965, and we never rebuilt. There is commemoration of it every year, yet the community is still in ruin. It’s now overrun with a homeless encampment.

Here a few "notes" on the subject. First. The LA riots of 1992, as the Watts riots in 1965, as any example of mass as well as molecular (i.e. fare-dodging, squatting, etc.) forms of direct ...

They can’t help giving vent to their emotions.” In Los Angeles, the riot in the Watts section of Los Angeles, started on Aug. 11, 1965 – 55 years ago. Racial tension was already high.

Those who live here say the area still has a long way to go to overcome decades of neglect. Black residents, people born here and those who work to make life better in Watts spoke to The Associated ...

Residents of Watts are still living with collateral damage from 1965, said the Rev. Marcus Murchinson, who preaches at the Tree of Life Missionary Baptist Church and also runs a charter high ...

Murchinson, 36, who didn’t grow up in Watts, said the community has survived uprisings in 1965 and 1992 following the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King. But surviving is not enough.