suffers. when we look at john singleton and spikes all across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture. our own cultural icons and telling our stories, expressing music and theater and cinema. in los angeles, one person is trying to bring about an understanding that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna smith. she has taken the riot and turned into theater. twilight bay. twilight is one of 26 people she becomes in this one woman tour deforce. they said we were looting in korea town. that was the mexicans. not us. i thought of the los angeles riots as the explosion of a trunk or a house that exploded. and everything is all over the place. and then as an artist, it s this incredible opportunity to put it together in a way that makes sense. there are so many different
Jamie Raskin said after the Los Angeles riots in May 1992 that he hoped George H. W. Bush did not "encourage" any type of "backlash against the rioting."
One talking point that has been raised repeatedly is that the summer 2020 riots caused $2 billion in damages; not an entirely false claim, but it is a thin one.
On the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots that shook America in 1992, Fox News asked Michael P. Downing, a former top cop with the LAPD for his thoughts and insights.