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The L.A. Riots | 7. Into Ashes

Slow Burn

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Hector tobar watched the chaos of april 20, ninth, 19 92 from the los angeles timess third floor news room. He kept on working that first day and wrote a story about the lapeds response to the quittal of the officers who beat rodney king. The next morning's newspaper laid out the toll that april 20 ninth had taken on los angeles: at least four deaths,. a hundred and six people injured and more than 150 fires burning across the city.

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