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The incident and reduced sentencing by the court exacerbated the existing tensions between African-American residents and Korean-American merchants in South Central Los Angeles. Those tensions were later interpreted by some members of the public and activists as being one of the catalysts for the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Los Angeles mayor's ...
South Central Los Angeles: 1991-03-16: Fatal shooting of 15-year-old African-American girl by Korean-American convenience store owner [10] 48: Bonny Lee Bakley: Los Angeles: 2001-05-04: Wife of actor Robert Blake shot and killed in parked car at restaurant, Blake was tried and found not guilty [10] [7] [202] 49: Murder of Samantha Runnion ...
The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising[ 4][ 5]) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four ...
Deaths. 4. Accused. Jerrid Joseph Powell. The 2023 Los Angeles spree shootings are a series of fatal shootings that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in November 2023. [1] So far, four shooting deaths have been linked together by ballistic tests. [2] The suspect, Jerrid Joseph Powell, was arrested on December 2.
The outrage resulting from the acquittal of these police officers was the principal cause of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. [1] Born in 1953 in Lansing, Michigan, [2] [1] Reginald Oliver Denny was a 39-year-old truck driver at the time of the attack. [3] His parents moved to Sylmar, Los Angeles, when he was a child. [4]
A gunman killed 10 people and wounded at least 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, police said, setting off a manhunt for the suspect who ...
Ford's family file $75 million lawsuit against city of Los Angeles. Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old African-American man, died from multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers in Florence, Los Angeles, California on August 11, 2014. [1] In the weeks and months that followed, Ford's shooting triggered ...
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was born on August 30, 1952, and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. [11] He married and had two children. [12] He was given a dishonorable discharge from the United States Army in July 1975, after being released from prison for his conviction of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in Stuttgart, West Germany, in April 1974. [13]