Voices from today and yesterday as Off-Ramp marks the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King Riots - which started April 29, 1992 - with a special hour-long program.
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• 6:27
We've collected memories from the 1992 L.A. Riots, which started April 29, 1992, with the acquittals of the LAPD officers accused of beating Rodney King.
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• 2:57
Not again, I thought. And questions haunted me: Why does neighbor turn against neighbor almost overnight? How do we miss the signs? Can we keep it from happening again?
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• 4:52
South LA's Linda Jay on witnessing LA’s most heated trials and how soon, she hopes to get her own justice.
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• 18:34
Historian and journalist Joe Domanick lays primary blame for the L.A. Riots on the LAPD's tradition of hostility against blacks and Latinos, and Chief Gates' arrogance and dereliction of duty.
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• 6:10
"Wait Wait Don't Tell Me's" Peter Sagal: Two cars roared up, screeched to a halt. All eight doors flew open, and out came uniformed police officers, each of them with a hand on their guns. The nearest officer looked familiar.
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• 3:46
KPCC producer Bianca Ramirez says a lot of people ask why she still lives near Florence and Normandie, the spot where the riots broke out. "It's home," she says.
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• 4:37
A year after the Rodney King riots, artist Jill D'Agnenica commemorated the anniversary by placing over 4,500 bright pink angel sculptures all around L.A.
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• 10:02
On April 29, 1992, James Hahn was driving down Florence on his way to his parents' house. On the radio, he heard about the rioting and diverted to side streets.
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• 4:36
Writer, documentarian, and filmmaker R.H. Greene reaches into his archive for a memory of the riots written twenty years ago.
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• 4:11
During April of 1992, Sonny Kang, a Korean-American from Koreatown, was in his college dorm room in San Diego when he first heard about the LA Riots.
Below you'll find a playlist of all the music featured on this week's episode of Off-Ramp: