This March 3, 1991, image taken from video by George Holliday in Lake View Terrace shows the Rodney King beating.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: George Holliday

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Rodney King shows bruises he sustained at the hands of four Los Angeles police officers in this March 6, 1991, photo. The beating was recorded by George Holliday, who just had gotten a new camcorder and decided to test it after noticing the noise and lights of a police helicopter.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kevork Djanezian / Associated Press

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Los Angeles Police Officer Laurence Powell, center, is hugged by former LAPD Officer Timothy Wind as Sgt. Stacy Koon observes from the background, right, after the verdict in the Rodney King beating trial was read. All defendants were acquitted, except one count against Powell in which the jury could not decide.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Reed Saxon / Associated Press

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Members of the jury that found four Los Angeles police officers not guilty in the Rodney King assault case file aboard a Ventura County Sheriff's Department bus outside the Simi Valley courthouse, April 29, 1992.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alan Hagman / Los Angeles Times

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A tear gave witness to the reaction of the Rev. Cecil L. Murray, pastor of the 8,000-member First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, as the verdicts were announced.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Robert Gabriel / Los Angeles Times

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Protesters after the verdict in Los Angeles.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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A rioter attacks a car at Florence and Normandie in Los Angeles after the King verdict.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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A mob at Florence and Normandie attacked this Asian man as he stepped off a bus. Anyone at the intersection who was not black was attacked during the first few hours.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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A female motorist stumbles as she gets out of her car, which was pelted with rocks at Florence and Normandie.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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The bloodied occupants of a car leave Florence and Normandie.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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A young boy in the crosswalk has just thrown a rock at the photographer's car as others run around the intersection of Florence and Normandie outside Tom's Liquor and Deli. The store was later looted.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times

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Rioters at Florence and Normandie.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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The early demonstrations in front of Parker Center were relatively peaceful as police faced off against the growing crowd. Once night fell, the group grew more violent.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rosemary Kaul / Los Angeles Times

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Protesters kick in the windshield of a Jaguar parked on Main Street across from City Hall on the first night of the riots.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alan Duignan / Los Angeles Times

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An LAPD car is set on fire and overturned by a roving crowd which was originally protesting outside Parker Center.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alan Duignan / Los Angeles Times

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A protester outside Parker Center in Los Angeles.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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Air view of fires burning out of control in the vicinity of Vermont and Vernon avenues southwest of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Randy Leffingwell / Los Angeles Times

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Sandra Evers-Manley, president of Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of NAACP, appears to be praying as a building burns.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times

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The skeleton of a burned car sits at the intersection of Normandie and Florence 4/29/1992. LA riots (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

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A shopping mall goes up in flames at La Brea Avenue and Pico Boulevard, where someone spray-painted a statement about violence.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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Midtown showing plumes of smoke from the numerous building fires in the city on April 30, 1992.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times

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Fires rage on both sides of Western Avenue along Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood on April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times

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A looter wheels a shopping cart full of diapers past a burning market on April 30.

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Looters line up to get in as others exit the smashed glass doors of the Thrifty Drugstore at Vermont Avenue and 3rd Street the day after the Rodney King verdict.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gerard Burkhart / Los Angeles Times

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Looting went on openly as rioting widened in Los Angeles on April 30. Two men carry booty from an electronics store at Broadway and 47th Street.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Con Keyes / Los Angeles Times

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A man fends off would-be looters from a liquor store at 3rd and Berendo streets during the second day of rioting. The man, wearing a white glove, was able to keep the mob at bay until police units arrived.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Larry Davis / Los Angeles Times

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A car carries looted furniture froma store at Western and Maplewood avenues April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: J. Albert Diaz / Los Angeles Times

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People drag goods across Vermont Avenue at 2nd Street in Koreatown while a newly ignited strip mall burns behind them April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jim Mendenhall / Los Angeles Times

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A market at 3rd and Catalina streets is ransacked during the second day of the riots following the King verdict.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Larry Davis / Los Angeles Times

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A young boy helps his father loot the Big 5 Sporting Goods store at Western Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard on April 30.

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Looters carry off weapons and shoes taken from a Big 5 sporting goods store in the 3400 block of Wilshire Boulvevard during the riots on April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Joe Kennedy / Los Angeles Times

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A man flees from a looted sporting goods store at Vermont Avenue and 1st Street as LAPD officers arrive on April 30.

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Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies keep watch on a group of people arrested after a store on Martin Luther King Boulevard was looted on April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Steve Dykes / Los Angeles Times

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An LAPD officer falls while chasing a suspected looter on Vermont Avenue near Martin Luther King Boulevard on April 30. The man was caught and subdued soon after.

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Store owners defend their property as gunfire breaks out in Koreatown at Western Avenue and 5th Street on April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Hyungwon Kang / Los Angeles Times

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An employee of a Korean supermarket returns fire from drive-by shooters at the corner of Western Avenue and 5th Street while attempting to protect the market from looters.

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A National Guardsman stands at alert near graffiti that spells out support for Rodney King.

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LAPD officers respond to the scene where two people were shot at the corner of 8th Street and Kingsley Drive. One died.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

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Edward Song Lee, 18, foreground, was shot to death and three others were injured in an exchange of gunfire with looters at 3rd and Hobart streets in Koreatown on April 30. Police questioned the survivors of the attack who were shot while trying to protect a pizza parlor.

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Cornelius Pettus, owner of Payless market, throws a bucket of water on flames at next-door business Ace Glass on April 30.

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LAPD officer Delwin Fields guards the intersection at Central Avenue and 46th Street on April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times

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LAPD officers stand guard as fire units battle a blaze near 19th Street and Adams Boulevard on April 30.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Patrick Downs / Los Angeles Times

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Looters and curiosity seekers at a Los Angeles strip mall at 17th Street and Western Avenue.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Meyer / Los Angeles Times

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Western Beauty Supply was just one of many businesses looted in the area of Venice Boulevard and Western Avenue.

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CHP officer Hugh Gnecco checks for looters in a Chief Auto Parts store at Washington Boulevard and Western Avenue.

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Tony Meeks, left, loads a pistol to help Norman Simples protect his store at Vermont and Manchester avenues while they wait for help from the National Guard.

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A security guard takes cover and waits for trouble at the California Market in a mini-mall at 5th Street and Western Avenue in Koreatown.

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LAPD beating victim Rodney King meets the press outside his lawyer's office in Beverly Hills to call for an end to the violence.

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An aerial view of Crenshaw Boulevard at Coliseum after the riots

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A child bows his head as family members are arrested for allegedly looting a store at the corner of Rodeo Road and La Cienega Boulevard.

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An LAPD officer trains his weapon on men arrested for looting as a CHP officer handcuffs one of them on Martin Luther King Boulevard near Vermont Avenue.

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National Guard troops patrol near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Vermont Avenue as a mini-mart burns.

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At Pico Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, Bobby Wade holds a sign asking for peace.

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A National Guard member hunkers down as shots are fired after midnight at 6th Street and Western Avenue on May 2, 1992.

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Guillermina Moreno and her 2-month-old daughter Karen rest at a shelter at Dorsey High School on May 2, 1992. Their apartment building on Olympic Boulevard was burned and they lost all their possessions.

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South Los Angeles near the intersection of Vermont and Manchester avenues was among the areas hardest hit by the violence in spring 1992. Every store on the east side of Vermont was gutted, beginning with a Korean-owned swap meet. Vermont runs from top to bottom.

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A boy checks out Marine's M-16 in front of a supermarket in Compton on May 3, 1992.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Larry Davis / Los Angeles Times

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LAPD officers act as crossing guards at 50th Place and Vermont Avenue on May 4, 1992, for a student on his way to Audubon Junior High School, one of the campuses closed by the violence.

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Marine Lance Cpl. Jason P. Brown gets a hug of support from Kayla Man, 17, of Carson just before curfew fell on May 6, 1992, in Long Beach.

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At Vermont Avenue and 27th Street, Tom Sedry and Arturo Pallacios were among those helping to clean up a building in which space had been shared by a discount store and the Exposition Park Church of the Nazarene. Many of the people were members of the congregation, but many others simply wanted to help.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Tony Barnard / Los Angeles Times

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Family members mourn Edward A. Travens, a 15-year-old who was killed in a drive-by shooting on the first night of the riots. His father, Allen Travens, left, mother Rosie Travens, center, and sister Jamie Travens, right, attend his funeral at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery one week after the verdicts in the case of the LAPD officers charged in the beating of Rodney King.

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