and the same kind of situation that existed in south central l.a. and in many parts of the country. what gives here? these are systemic problems that will take really long time to fix and one of the issues you re seeing is that the young people are saying they re tired of waiting. i was in the ferguson area and i talked to some of the leaders and they said, look we have companies ready to come in and give jobs to the young people but they don t have the skills p. but changing as far as the educational and economic system those are definitely long term things we need to work on at the national level but the young people are tired of waiting. they re taking to instagram and facebook and literally getting hundreds of thousands of people to the street and saying we
bar and arrested black customers, more than 7,000 people were arrested and 43 killed at those riots. then came the spring and summer of 68. a national convulsion of violence sparked by the assassination of dr. martin luther king. unrest breaks out in more man a hundred cities, thousands of and the nation stunned. l.a., 1992, was no 68. but it was the first riot of the 24-hour news age. when officers charged with beating rodney king were acquitted, los angeles raged for five days. 3700 fires burned and 53 people died. with damage put at over $1 billion, it would be the closedly yet. but it s not always about race.
she wanted to protect him. she said vandalizing has nothing to do with justice. rioting in the united states is not new. riots were not always about race. here is martin savage with more. the rioting in baltimore, the unrest in ferguson, tragedies, to be sure. but say the name watts and a generation still cringes. more than a hundred square blocks were decimated by looters and few buildings were still intact. 1965 two white officers scuffled with a black 17. when it ended nearly a week later, south central l.a. looked like a battleground with 34 people dead. two years later, it happened again. four days of rioting, looting and arson rocked the city of detroit. when white officers raided a
masks, making the costumes, is making the luchadore bigger and more powerful and more real? yeah. i like it. manuel s home is a shrine to lucha libre. as we talk, i learn mexican wrestling has been around for hundreds of years but it wasn t until the 1940s that the mask was introduced. then i learned that manuel has been holding back on me. who is this? this is you? oh, yeah. it is 35 years ago. i ve broken my back right here, so no lucha for me any more. and that was that? three months in the hospital. champion luchadore. he was a champion? i thought i came to the neighborhood to meet a simple mask maker.
more importantly, how do i keep myself from getting dragged into the ring? but before anybody gets body slammed, i need a very special item. this story starts in south central l.a., a neighborhood where the sights, sounds and flavors of mexico, coexist with southern california and legendary maskmaker manuel quiroz makes his home. lucha. we re going to have a translator and everything. mike. welcome. thank you. welcome. to my big space. this is quite the space you have here. yeah. just watch everyone, because everything is dangerous. everything is danger? yeah. this is your home? yeah. and your work space? yeah. how long have you been here? i told you, everything is dangerous.