Watts riots
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Los Angeles was the scene of another riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.
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He is Black, and his grandmother lived in Watts during the 1965 Watts riots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Still, decades after the deadly 1965 Watts riots spurred construction of the original hospital — which was supposed to bring high-quality health care to poor neighborhoods in South Los Angeles — many disparities persist.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2022
“The mouth that Hurd has painted is firm, even capable of meanness,” and the Vietnam War and Watts riots are reflected “in the furrows of the brow and eyes.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
Partnering with the Watts Labor Community Action Committee, a jobs and social services nonprofit born out of the 1965 Watts riots, they made a winning bid in 2004 to build food-processing facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
He was a sheriff in L.A.; he quit after the Watts riots.
From Joe Burke's Last Stand by Wetterau, John Moncure
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