The images of cars set ablaze, protesters tossing rocks at police and officers firing nonlethal rounds and tear gas at protesters hearkens back to the last time a president sent the National Guard to ...

Thirty-four years ago on April 29, 1992, riots broke out in Los Angeles after four police officers were acquitted in the ...

Via vivid prose, Yoo (From a Whisper to a Rally) depicts the events surrounding the acquittal of the four police officers who brutalized Black motorist Rodney King in 1992 L.A. By centering the ...

LOS ANGELES – A former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was on the force during the 1992 Rodney King riots said that Democrat Mayor Karen Bass was too late in calling for law and order to ...

Rodney King, the man whose beating by four Los Angeles police officers and their eventual acquittal sparked the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, has died at 47. According to reports, King’s fiancée, Cynthia ...

Today marks the 25-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, largely in response to the beating of Rodney King by members of the L.A.P.D. The brutal assault is an infamous moment in American history, ending ...

It is far rarer and more difficult for state authorities to try to investigate federal law enforcement officials than the other way around. By Charlie Savage The skirmishes with immigration agents of ...