ABSTRACT
Event one On April 30, 1992, a crowd converged on the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) headquarters protesting against the acquittal of four law enforcement officers accused of brutally beating Rodney King, an African American male. The protest spiraled into a full-scale uprising which led to 44 deaths and 1,100 arrests. Television networks, anticipating the response to the verdict, had cameras on hand to document “live” the street violence. When the LAPD failed to quell it, federal officers and military troops moved in at the command of the then president, George Bush.
