April 29 will mark 30 years since the city erupted in violence following the acquittal of four members of the Los Angeles Police Department accused of using excessive force in the beating and arrest of black motorist Rodney King.
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A Los Angeles store owner struggles to save his market during the second day of riots on April 30, 1992. (Photo by Tina Burch, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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A protester holds a sign reading ‘We will not rest’ as the police station burns down outside Parker Center on Wednesday, April 29, 1992. (Kim Kulish, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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An armed store owner stands at a Koreatown intersection as businesses burn April 30, 1992. (Photo by Gene Blevins for the Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Looters on Vermont Avenue steal items from a furniture store as firefighters respond to a building that has been set on fire by vandals. April 30, 1992. (Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Looters lie on the ground behind stores near the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Los Angeles as officers stand above them on April 30, 1992. (Photo by Myung Chun, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Smoke rises from a shopping mall set on fire by rioters early Thursday morning April 30, 1992 as the Los Angeles skyline is partially obscured by smoke. More than 300 fires are believed to have been started after four police officers were acquitted of the beating of motorist Rodney King on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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This March 3, 1991 image made from video provided by KTLA Los Angeles shows police beating a man, later identified as Rodney King. King, the black motorist whose 1991 beating caught on camera by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone of one of the most destructive race riots in the country’s history, has died, his aide has said. press release on Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47 years old. (AP Photo/Courtesy KTLA Los Angeles, George Holliday)
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FILE – This April 30, 1992 file photo shows looters running with stolen merchandise from a Payless shoe store near the Crenshaw and Jefferson neighborhood of Los Angeles. Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone of one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, has died, his aide says press release on Sunday, June 17, 2012. He was 47 years old. (AP Photo/Akili-Casundria Ramsess, File)
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A Los Angeles police officer holds a shotgun at two looting suspects as a California State Police officer handcuffs them near Martin Luther King Blvd. and Vermont Ave. in South Central Los Angeles, in this file photo taken May 1, 1992. (AP Photo/John Gaps III)
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Los Angeles’ Mark Craig sings near a burning guard shack at Los Angeles City Hall, known as ground zero for the 1992 Los Angeles riots after the verdict in the Rodney King case was read . Los Angeles’ Mark Craig sings near a burning guard shack at Los Angeles City Hall, known as ground zero for the 1992 Los Angeles riots after the verdict in the Rodney King case was read .
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Mill looters in the ABC Market parking lot in South Central Los Angeles on April 30, 1992, as violence and looting ensued on the first day of rioting following verdicts in the assault case by Rodney King. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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A Korean store owner examines the rubble of his Los Angeles store, April 30, 1992, after it was set on fire by rioters overnight. (AP Photo/Steve Grayson, Riverside Press-Enterprise)
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A Los Angeles police officer targets a looter at a market at Alvarado and Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, April 30, 1992, during the second night of riots in the city. (AP Photo/John Gaps III)
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Mark Craig, left, confronted officers at Parker Center, the headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department. Later, rioters destroyed a guard shack and set it on fire in the middle of the street. April 29, 1992. (Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Smoke fills the sky above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as arson fires burn Thursday April 30, 1992. Major sporting events in the Los Angeles area have been canceled, postponed or moved due to riots and violence. (Photo by Myung Chun, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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A man removes a sofa from a store in South Central Los Angeles in this April 30, 1992 file photo, as looting and rioting continue across the region. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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A commercial building is left to burn as firefighters protect nearby buildings from fire damage during riots in South Central Los Angeles, April 30, 1992. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Looters take shoes from a Los Angeles store on April 30, 1992. (Photo by Gene Blevins for the Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Looters steal furniture from a store on Olympic Blvd. near downtown Los Angeles. April 30, 1992. (Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Los Angeles police officer Theodore Briseno defends his actions in the assault on motorist Rodney King during testimony in court in Simi Valley, California, April 3, 1992. A scene from the video of the aggression is shown on the left. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Looters flee with four mattresses taken from a discount furniture store in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992. (Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Rodney King calls for an end to the violence on May 1, 1992: “People, I just wanna say, you know, can we all get along? (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Smoke blankets Los Angeles in this April 30, 1992 file photo, as fires like this near Vermont Street spiral out of control. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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What remains of burnt-out businesses in Los Angeles following the 1992 riots. (Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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FILE – This April 29, 1992 file photo shows several buildings at a Boys Market shopping center entirely engulfed in flames before firefighters could arrive as riots broke out in South Central Los Angeles. The acquittal of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King sparked riots that spread across the city and into nearby suburbs. Cars were wrecked and homes and businesses were set on fire. Before order was restored, 55 people died, 2,300 were injured and more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon,
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A California Highway Patrol officer stands guard at Ninth Street and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles as smoke rises from a fire further down the street, April 30, 1992. It was the second day of unrest in Los Angeles after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King beating case. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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View from the East Pacific Coast Highway looking west near Lemon Ave. in Long Beach, California during the Rodney King riots on April 39, 1994. (Photo by Cristina Salvador, Long Bech Press-Telegram)