LA race riots reaction
- Title
- LA race riots reaction
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech
- TX Date
- 2 May 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:03:52
- Description
- Paul Woodley reports from the United States on reaction to the race riots in Los Angeles, sparked by the acquittal of white police officers for the 1991 beating of black Rodney King. Speakers include: Rodney King appealing for calm; President George H W Bush on law enforcement and possible second trial; Edward James Olmos, actor, on clean-up operation.
- Contributors
- Paul Woodley; George H. W. Bush; Rodney King; Edward James Olmos
- Keywords
- California; USA; Law enforcement; Fires; Interethnic relations; Violence; Riots; Los Angeles; African-American peoples; Trials; Assault; Civil and political rights; Criminal investigation; Verdicts; Right to justice; Rodney King
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