Jury Deadlocks On One Count In Violent Videotaped Arrest Trial LAPD Placed On Tactical Alert

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2365393/detail.html ^ | 7/29/03 | NBC

[CarmelValleyite]

FYI -

L.A.'s police chief has no control over Inglewood, which has its own department and chief. Inglewood is in the County of L.A., but not the City.

[CarmelValleyite]

You are wrong about the ethnicity of the majority of "rioters" in 1992 in Los Angeles. Despite the number of black faces you saw on the tube carrying off TV sets, furniture, etc., there were many more Hispanics involved in the looting than there were Blacks. That's a fact.

[gsrinok]

If that were true, I would be very surprised. Not only were the faces on the TV mostly black, but in the aftermath, it was predominantly black "leaders" who addressed the riots and defended the rioters.

By the way, why put rioters in quotations? It's hardly in dispute that the term is accurate.

[mrmeyer]

Wounded? Why would you try to wound someone that is trying to beat you to death? I say aim for the head and hope for the best.

[gsrinok]

Actually, I would go with the "empty the clip" approach.

[ladyinred]

I understand the media is basically trying to incite a riot over this! I would not be a police officer in that city for any amount of money.

[CarmelValleyite]

You can go back to all the statistics gathered by our major L.A. newspapers if you like, but the fact is that despite what you saw on your TV, more Hispanics were involved in looting than were Blacks in 1992.

I live in Los Angeles and we all were under curfews, etc., for days. We had access to much more information, 24/7, about the situation than did the rest of the country, naturally. The statistics revealed after the events were over were surprising, but not shocking since there are far more Hispanics in this area than there are Blacks. Blacks in Los Angeles are not a huge group anymore and haven't been for years.

Blacks have been leaving the area in droves for quite awhile, and their previous L.A. locales have been taken over by Hispanics.

[gsrinok]

That is a surprise to me, but I'll admit that I don't read much from the LA Times.

[rodeo-mamma]

It's true, the Hispanics may have been doing most of the looting, but who was doing the killing? The media treated the killings as a secondary story.

I guess it wasn't politically correct to point out the wrongs of those who murdered white people.

[CarmelValleyite]

Murders were hardly a secondary story. It's not clear exactly WHO committed each murder from the stats available, but here's what we know for certain:

53 deaths occurred in the 1992 L.A. Riots, and many of them were from accidents/fire.

The dead were:

25 African-Americans
16 Latinos
8 Whites
2 Asians
1 Algerian
1 Indian or Middle-Easterner (unclear)

48 were men
5 were women

So what was that about all those murdered White people again????????