We are rapidly approaching the tenth anniversary of the L.A. riots. Five thousand buildings were set on fire. Fifty-three people were killed and over four thousand people were injured, including Reginald Denny, whose skull was literally smashed into pieces by a brick. A firefighter was shot through the neck because the Black rioters didn't want the fires to be put out. A curfew was imposed on the entire city of Los Angeles to restore order. For weeks, truckloads of National Guard soldiers with M16s could be seen driving around the streets of L.A. Even though ten years have passed, the liberal media is still telling the same lies, which helped cause the riots.

The riots began at 3:15pm on April 29th, 1992 after a jury announced that three police officers were innocent of charges that they used excessive force against Rodney King. (The jury could not reach a verdict against a fourth police officer.)

The Rodney King incident had occurred over a year earlier. King had been drinking heavily (Ref. 1) and went speeding in his car with two friends. (Later that night one officer called out during the attempted arrest that King was "dusted" meaning that he was probably on angel dust --a drug that makes people largely immune to pain and therefore highly dangerous.) King led police on a chase at speeds exceeding 100mph. After a fifteen minute chase police were able to cut them off. The two friends of King surrendered immediately to police laying down on the ground. King behaved in a highly erratic manner, ignoring police orders for several minutes. King initially lunged at police. An individual with a camcorder taped the incident, which was later played countless times on CNN.

The liberals at CNN considered the story a goldmine as long as they misreported it. The CNN liberals deliberately left out the first few seconds of the tape, in which the six foot five inch tall Rodney King charged at police. Rush Limbaugh acquired a copy of this portion of the videotape and played it repeatedly on his TV show back in 1992 to show the world what the liberal media was deliberately leaving out. Sympathy for King would have disappeared among Whites if the whole videotape had been shown repeatedly to the public. The liberal media also failed to portray Rodney King as a dangerous drunk driver, who put the public at risk as he led the police on a high speed chase. If King had plowed into another car and killed an innocent bystander, no one would have ever heard of Rodney King.

Unfortunately a lot of White people to this day only remember the biased liberal presentation of part of the videotape evidence. The liberal media did its best to convince White people that the police were out of control. A significant number of White moderates and liberals want to seem sympathetic to the Blacks and so they quickly condemn the police officers. (Being compassionate for them means ignoring the plight of the White police officers, who were facing jail time if the truth about King's drugged up state and his charging at police officers didn't come out. Some Whites still don't seem to think this is important.) The disgusting moderate George Bush (senior) called for a second, Federal trial of the police officers, who were found innocent. This is a flagrant violation of the Right against double jeopardy. American Blacks later voted 95 percent against Bush when he tried to get re-elected.

The police in the Rodney King case did not beat the other two Blacks in King's car, who obeyed police orders. The police stopped beating Rodney King several times, pausing briefly to see if he was finally going to surrender. The police only resumed beating King when he continued to rise up and ignore police orders. A female CHP cop pulled out her pistol and was ready to shoot Rodney King at one point. The police shot King twice with Tasers, but his highly drugged up state, prevented these weapons from incapacitating him.

Police in Los Angeles had been ordered by the Black mayor, Tom Bradley, not to use a "choke hold" to subdue uncooperative suspects because several Blacks had died from it. Mayor Bradley didn't bother to give the police nets, pepper spray or any good alternate to the choke hold. Using a Taser and beating a suspect with a baton were the only official, approved tactics to deal with a suspect, who refused to surrender, thanks to the interference of Mayor Tom Bradley. The enormous Rodney King threw off several police, who tried to tackle him early in the arrest, displaying superhuman strength as people on angel dust often do. After that, the police only felt safe hitting King with their batons.

The liberal media stirred up the Black community and they bear a tremendous responsibility for causing the 1992 L.A. riots thanks to their biased coverage. Even the liberals have to admit that Rodney King was speeding, resisting arrest and probably was on drugs as well as alcohol. The issue with Rodney King was always whether the police overreacted after King had committed a series of crimes.

Isn't it curious that the liberal media has ignored the dozens of Whites killed by Black rioters? Did those White people commit any offenses or were they completely innocent victims? Only Reginald Denny, whose suffering was captured on videotape, was given any significant media attention and even then the media quickly turned the focus off him when a team of surgeons miraculously kept him alive despite massive brain damage. The L.A. riots should serve as a warning to all White people that society can be plunged into complete chaos in any city with a large Black population.

1).King Chronology
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty /projects/ftrials/lapd/kingchronology.html