Twenty-three years ago, parts of Los
Angeles looked something like Baltimore has in the last week, only more so. The
toll in Los Angeles, after four smoldering days of mayhem that began April 29
following the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King beating, was 53
dead, 2,000 injured, 11,000 arrested and a billion dollars in damage.
Fast-forward to the scenes of burning
buildings in Baltimore, where rioting followed a funeral Monday for a
25-year-old man who died of a severed spine sustained while in police custody.
The questions about whether police and firefighters could have done more to
quell looting and destruction were the same ones asked back between April 29
and May 3 in Los Angeles, with no good answers forthcoming.
There’s another similarity between Los
Angeles and Baltimore: Controversial use of police force on a man of color was
the plunger on a powder keg decades in the making.
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