KEY EVENTS
What event sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots?
Answer: What is the acquittal of the four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King?
He was the Black motorist beaten by LAPD officers in a video that shocked the nation.
Who was Rodney King
The video of Rodney King's beating was captured on this device.
Answer: What is a camcorder (or home video camera)?
In what year was the Watts Riots, another major LA uprising, which some compared to LA 92?
Answer: What is 1965?
How many people were killed during the LA riots?
Answer: What is over 60?
What happened to Latasha Harlins that escalated tensions in LA?
Answer: What is she was shot and killed by a Korean store owner, Soon Ja Du, and the owner received no jail time?
This Korean store owner shot Latasha Harlins in the back of the head.
Who is Soon Ja Du?
This major network aired much of the live coverage of the riots
CNN
This policy in the 1980s led to increased police presence and tension in Black neighborhoods
Answer: What is the War on Drugs?
What was the estimated cost of property damage?
Answer: What is over $1 billion?
What date did the LA riots begin? MONTH AND YEAR
Answer: What is April 29, 1992?
This then-mayor of Los Angeles was criticized for his slow response to the riots.
Answer: Who is Tom Bradley?
Who filmed the beating of Rodney King?
Answer: Who is George Holliday?
The "Rodney King trial" took place in this California city, not in Los Angeles.
Answer: What is Simi Valley?
The U.S. military and this force were deployed to restore order.
Answer: What is the National Guard?
Which area of Los Angeles was the epicenter of the violence?
Answer: What is South Central Los Angeles?
Who was president during la riots
George H. W. Bush
What is helicopter
What racial groups were most involved in the tensions highlighted in LA 92?
Answer: What are African Americans and Korean Americans?
What was the public reaction to the second federal trial of the LAPD officers?
Answer: What is mixed—two were convicted, two acquitted?
Who was Daryl Gates
This civil rights leader famously said, "No justice, no peace" during this era
Answer: Who is Jesse Jackson? (or alternatively, Maxine Waters, depending on focus) |
Rodney King called for peace and calm asking the public to stop the violence and famously asked this question....
"Can't we all just get along?"
This broader term is used to describe the economic and racial inequalities leading to the unrest.
Answer: What is systemic racism?
Name one long-term change in LA law enforcement or policy after the riots.
Answer: What is increased community policing or police oversight?