1992 Los Angeles Riots Report

America prides itself on its recognition as a symbol for democratic equality but traces of racism is evident and highly present within its roots. Racism may be defined as the refusal to accept or understand another person's culture because of their ethnicity, variations of skin color, or culture. More often than not, racism is followed by "organized resistance at every level-from individual acts of resistance to broad-scale, collective, cross system movements" (Racial Equality Tools). Based on the above definition, many historians would categorize the 1992 Los Angeles Riots to be just that, a movement ignited by the angered citizens of Los Angeles County. When evidence demonstrated that on March 3, 1991, the Los Angeles Police Department beat

For decades, racial tensions were hidden in the depths of the lower social classes as high government society discourages racial tension from being publicly displayed. The fear of admitting that the once bright America played a role in racial conflict, emitted a fear for politicians to emit caution when describing to the press what caused the Los Angeles Police Department failure to properly execute protocol top ensure the well-being of Los Angeles civilians. Many felt that not only did they fail to adhere to protocol, but that's the failure to react emitted from the evidentiary racial discrimination on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department towards the minorities present in the county. This belief was the particular incentive that motivated many African Americans and Korean Americans to publicly display their dissatisfaction with the final verdict on the Reginald King beating as it provided an excuse to retaliate against the lack of racial attention dedicated to the lower, social ethnicities of Los Angeles. The lack of action taken on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department stemmed from their desire to gain a greater amount of power to further dominate the racial tension present in Los

When the verdict was read and the public became aware and conscious of the acquittal of the four police officers that unlawfully restrained Rodney G. King, the public suffered an immediate act of unrest, leaving the city in a period of turmoil and chaos. A fifteen-day period of unrest that left fifty-three people dead and twenty-three hundred injured. Los Angeles in 1992 felt wounded and lost as a result of the inherently present racial tensions, causing many residents to outbreak in periods of unrest that is still present and deeply rooted in Los Angeles' history and culture today. For decades, citizens in Los Angeles were petrified of their surroundings and when the 1992 Los Angeles riots enveloped Los Angeles and turned it into a war zone, citizens could only stare in horror and astonishment as the hidden traces of racism rose to the surface. An unconscious trace of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots remains today, inherently present in the culture that has now become a majority. Today, the cultures that were once considered minorities now flood the Los Angeles county streets. They are the ones that shape the city of Los Angeles and make it be a multi-faceted community of many ethnicities. While a repeat time of unrest is inevitable amongst today's population, which constantly finds itself fighting back against racial inequality, it is conclusively so that the racial