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Justice comes slowly: Remembering the L.A. riots in the time of Trayvon Martin
Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell you, something surreal about watching on television from a continent away as places you've been and streets you know are smashed and burned. The...
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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: Prisons, MRI (imaging), Hospitals and Clinics, Real Estate Buyers, Guatemala
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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... -
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: Delta Air Lines, Executive Branch, Ventura County Fires (2009), Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning
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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: Movies, Anna Deavere Smith, Civil Unrest, PBS (tv network), John Singleton
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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: Music, Concerts, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI, Los Angeles Police Department
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Remembering when L.A. burned
Leonard PittsTwenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell you, something surreal about watching on television from a continent away as places you've been and streets you know are smashed and burned. The...Tags: The Miami Herald
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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: Cocaine, Civil Unrest, Los Angeles Police Department
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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: Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles Police Department
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Behavioral Conditions, Nursing, Injuries and Wounds
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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: Personal Service, The Home Depot, Cancer, Tobacco Addiction, here! (tv network)
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