LAPD Officer Delwin Fields guards the intersection at Central Avenue and 46th Street on April 30, 1992.
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On the second day of the rioting , flames overtake a Jon’s supermarket. The building, which was at 3rd Street and Normandie Avenue, had been looted before the blaze was started.
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Gates visits a National Guard post at Figueroa Street and Vernon Avenue during the L.A. riots in 1992. Rioting erupted after a jury acquitted four officers in the King beating. The violence left at least 53 dead.
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Chief Daryl F. Gates speaks to the media after the riots. With him is Deputy Chief Robert Vernon.
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After his retirement, Gates became a talk show host on radio station KFI-AM. He defended the verdicts in the Rodney King beating trial and blasted the federal indictments of four officers.
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Gates attends the swearing-in of Bernard C. Parks as police chief in 1997. After retiring, Gates would turn up at smaller LAPD-related events, where he drew extended applause from loyalists. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Daryl F. Gates in May 2009.
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