Than 30 hostages at a high school. We can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, theres been enough already. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. For 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. We find the defendant
while the nations eyes are glued to los angeles. Police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. Fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the president of Exxon Corporation is missing from his home. His wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. They had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7 30. Miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. Friends say riso is just like the house they live in, solid. If youre a cynic
they were poor people. then suddenly the story wasn t a racial story, it was an economic story. looters of every race and color, just like their victims. by late morning, it was clear that if anything, the lawlessness was increasing. fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney riso, president of the exxon international corporation went missing this morning. on the second day, exxon received a phone call and the message of the phone call was that a letter could be found in the livingston shopping mall, taped to a lamp post. federal authorities say they prefer not to speculate on the conditions or whereabouts of sidney riso while they re still searching for him, only that they hope to find him alive.
george h.w. bush went on television, i assumed at the time that he was going to make a statement to try to restore order in los angeles. what we saw last night and the night before in los angeles is not about civil rights. it s not about the great cause of equality that all americans must uphold. it s not a message of protest. it s been the brutality of a mob, pure and simple. the speech that bush made seemed to make things worse. the violence will end, justice will be served, hope will return. the president s words echo in households across the country. what is your plea to the charge of aggravated murder as contained count one of the indictment. guilty as charged, your honor. an attorney spoke for dahmer and his family.
in new jersey, what started as a missing person s case is now being treated as a criminal abduction. sidney riso headed to work and disappeared. he s the president of exsoften exxon international. we realized that what we probably had was a kidnapping and asked the fbi to come in and assist us. we looked at all possible motives and certainly the exxon valleu valdes, which had occurred just a few years prior to that. we thought that it could be related to an environmental terrorist group looking for retaliation. this is as big as it gets. there s been nothing like this in new jersey since the lindbergh kidnapping and it was just something that didn t happen.