Bush on quelling LA race riots

Title

Bush on quelling LA race riots

Genre

Press conference; Speech

TX Date

2 May 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:03:52

Description

Press statement by US President George H W Bush outlining the action he is taking to quell the violence taking place in the Los Angeles race riots sparked by the acquittal of white police officers for beating in 1991 of black Rodney King. And on the Rodney King trial and federal investigation now beginning.

Contributors

George H. W. Bush

Keywords

California; USA; Armed forces; Law enforcement; Interethnic relations; Violence; Riots; Los Angeles; Policing practice; Police personnel; Trials; Assault; Civil and political rights; Criminal investigation; Verdicts; Right to justice; Rodney King; African-Amercian peoples

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