'Just Like The 1992 Riots': Los Angeles Protests Compared To Historic Rodney King Rampage — 13 Years After Cop Beating Victim Was Found Dead At The Bottom of His Swimming Pool.

Some have also compared the protests to the 1992 LA riots, after the acquittal of White police officers for the beating death of Black man Rodney King.

Los Angeles has a long history of protesting over racial justice issues, but what has happened on the city's streets over the past week is, so far, very different from the riots of the early 1990s.

Los Angeles LA Mayor Bass downplays anti-ICE riots as limited to small part of city, says 'zero comparison' to 1992 unrest Five arrests made and 30 citations issued as protesters throw rocks ...

Los Angeles riots erupt as mobs attack federal officers during ICE deportations, prompting Trump to deploy National Guard ...

Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and most of the people arrested during the fighting were Latino. The riots didn’t die down until June 8, when ...

Although the current protests are growing in number and scope, they’re mostly clustered around downtown Los Angeles. They haven’t yet approached what was seen in June 2020, after the murder of ...

Residents and experts say the response is reminiscent of a longstanding dynamic in the state and around the country.

Rodney King protests in 1992. Some have compared Trump’s decision on Saturday to George H.W. Bush’s use of the Insurrection Act to respond to riots in Los Angeles in 1992, after the acquittal ...

PRESS REVIEW - Tuesday, June 10: We look at reactions after protests in LA in which Donald Trump sends the National Guard. A video goes viral of an Australian reporter being shot with a rubber ...