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Letters: A story of hope from the L.A. riots
Re "An intersection's forgotten victim quietly moved on," Column, May 6 I, of course, have heard of Reginald Denny. I remember being absolutely horrified at his senseless beating. It was a scene straight out of a horror movie, and to me, it was akin to... -
The forgotten victim from Florence and Normandie
When I knocked on a door in Torrance on Tuesday afternoon, I had just about given up on finding Fidel Lopez. Twenty years ago, at the corner of Florence and Normandie, the self-employed construction worker was dragged from his truck and viciously...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Prisons, MRI (imaging)
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Rodney King, 20 years after L.A.'s riots
In 21 years, his name has appeared in the Los Angeles Times on more than 7,000 occasions. Sometimes it's as himself, Rodney King, the victim of now-fabled LAPD abuse the world got to see, the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit, the hapless guy getting stopped...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Lawyers, Patt Morrison, Civil Rights, Malcolm X
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Readers look back on unforgettable scenes
'End of the world' I was assigned to Wilshire Division as a second-year officer in the LAPD. I remember standing in formation in the station parking lot listening to the sergeant barking out our assignments, all the while watching and feeling the heat...Tags: Politics, Delta Air Lines, Air Transportation Delays, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Artists, actors creatively reengage with '92 L.A. riots, 'Twilight'
When Anna Deavere Smith first staged her one-woman docu-play "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," a myopic journalist pointedly asked her, "Don't you think your work will have a brief shelf life?" Two decades later, the answer is "in fact, no," Smith said by...
Tags: Culture, John Singleton, Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crown Heights
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Newton: The night the LAPD failed
The Los Angeles riots represented the culmination of many failures: the failure to provide hope for young people; the failure to supply education and jobs in the numbers that would stabilize communities; the failure to engage those communities in their...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Music, Entertainment, Concerts
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L.A. riots: Memories of mob violence fade at Florence and Normandie
L.A. NOWThe flash point of the Los Angeles riots was the corner of Florence and Normandie avenues. It was there that TV helicopters captured the beating of trucker Reginald Denny, scenes that became the symbol for mob violence during the riots....... -
For LAPD's chief, a transformation
In 1992, I was a young Los Angeles Police Department sergeant assigned to the Internal Affairs Division and had just returned home after a long shift only to see on television the Florence and Normandie assaults, the beating of Reginald Denny and fires...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Cocaine, Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice
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Letters: Memories of the 1992 L.A. riots
Re "The past still grips," April 23 and "King discusseshis 'Riot Within' at Festival of Books," April 22 For 20 years I have dreaded this time of year, when the 1992 L.A. riots and Rodney King are brought to the forefront. I am sorry King was beaten by...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Occupy Wall Street
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Caught up in violence of L.A. riots, victim has lasting empathy
HONOLULU — Craig Fujii spent the night of April 29, 1992, in two increasingly chaotic L.A. emergency rooms.
On his right temple throbbed a large, ugly lump, striped with swollen veins. His head hurt, he kept saying, over and over.
The young...Tags: Politics, Photography, Health and Medical Professionals, Arts, Freedom of the Press
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Fading memories at Florence and Normandie
Just a mention of the word throws off James Oh, as if you've come looking for someone who moved out long ago.
"Riots here?" he says, pointing to his store, Tom's Liquor. "No, no. Riots long, long time ago."
Today, the shelves are neatly stocked, the...Tags: Tobacco Addiction, Organized Crime, Personal Service, here! (tv network), Pancreatic Cancer
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LAPD goes from longtime oppressor to community partner
What LAPD Sgt. Rick Arteaga remembers most about the first night of the riots is a curbside history lesson at the intersection of Manchester and Vermont.
Six police officers were trying to face down 400 angry residents. The Los Angeles Police...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Los Angeles Police Department, Gang Activity, Theft, Cocaine
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