
The LA Uprising, a generation later
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Four l a p d officers were acquitted for having beaten a black motorist named rodney king the previous year. When the verdict was announced in los angeles, the city erupted. People swarmed into loote stores and began setting some on fire. The park and kiaska at the entrance to parkers centre, the seat of power for the la p d, was torched as people protested pree lence. There was preseec it is revolution time. It's time asoulite jo is still brothers and sister. Andit aas to stand up and be en and women and do the la tay eoe is dag i si now.
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