Los Angeles Riots 
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/22/2021
George Holliday Dies at 61, Taped LAPD Beating of Rodney King
George Holliday's fortuitous purchase of a camcorder inaugurated the era of civilian video evidence of police abuse, though accountability has followed only rarely.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/6/2021
We Need to Put a Name to This Violence
Attacks on Asian Americans in many cities have raised comparisons to Black-Korean tensions in Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 riots, but writer Jay Caspian Kang argues the comparison isn't apt, and more work needs to be done to determine whether a wave of hate crimes is happening, and if so, why.
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