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Rodney King was stopped for speeding in California the year before and savagely beaten after he resisted arrest. It was all caught on video by a bystander and the police were charged for excessive  brutality while trying to subdue King. 

When the police were acquitted by an all white jury in another neighboring county from where the crime had occurred the city of Los Angeles exploded.  There were riots , looting, and fires all over the downtown area, and after the death of a rioter in Koreatown, the tensions mounted as the riot moved over into the Korean section.  

In this episode, we will relive the riots both in real time, and thanks to the L.A. TV Station KCAL, through the eyes of some of the people 25 years later in their series reliving the L.A. Riots. We will hear from Mayor Tom Bradley, Governor Pete Wilson and at the end of the episode we will hear President George H. W. Bush as he addresses the nation in an attempt to bring calm to the disorder he was facing, all of which is occurring just six months before the 1992 Presidential Election. 

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