1992 LA RIOTS

Footage from various news channels of the 1992 LA riots. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features this real life event in early 1990s Los Angeles. Tensions started with the not guilty verdict of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating. Ignited by the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the corner of Florence and Normandie on April 29, rioting continued for several days. Arson, gunfire, and mass looting of large department stores to small family owned businesses. Men, women and children break in windows and doors and carry TVs and furniture. Molotov cocktails thrown by arsonists. Korean store owners protect their businesses in Koreatown with shotguns. Ordinary citizens beaten and attacked by mobs. Taped during the citywide curfew while the National Guard was called in to restore order. Harvey Levin - before TMZ - reporting for CBS LA starting at 1 hour 03 min 0:00 Stealing Bean Bag chairs, a couch, the store plant, recliner 3:18 Multiple fires burning out of control in Hollywood 4:00 Looters running through the streets 13:37 Thick Black Smoke from Multiple buildings on fire 17:26 Looters looting their neighborhood stores 20:03 Looters looting Sears “with impunity“ 26:10 Linda Mour’s footage: Looters in Koreatown 27:57 Fed up Korean merchants come out firing guns 31:34 Looting Thrifty Drugstore, starting sporadic fires 39:22 Looters up close: inside supermarkets 40:27 Korean store owners with rifles, shotguns protect their businesses 42:40 Plumes of smoke like the War Zone in the Mid East, fires starting too fast 56:54 - 59:45 Sky covered in Black Smoke 1:03:10 Harvey Levin reporting for CBS LA News 1:21:00 Massive Looting at Silo electronics store 1:25:49 Scientologists protecting their church Dianetics Center on Hollywood Blvd 1:30:48 Looting an electronics store, looters carry out cameras 1:31:48 Looter bowing, tipping his hat as he takes a skateboard and others take clothes from a clothing store 1:38:18 Sniper fire: Man with a rifle on rooftop, a store owner firing at looters 1:51:00 Families including children looting a store 1:52:10 Police stand by and watch as a grocery store is emptied by looters with grocery carts full of alcohol, potting soil, etc. 1:52:25 Man carries a couch past a police car, before the sweep starts 1:54:57 Police start arresting looters, shots fired, police move in on a van guns drawn 1:57:19 In front of Circuit City: TV sets dropped, picked up by another with a VCR, waves a gun and ran 1:58:56 Man with dolly tries to take a large TV out of store, police arrive and runs away