Sponsored message
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
AirTalk

AirTalk’s LA Riots special: What happened 25 years ago

A California Highway patrolman directs raffic around a shopping center engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, 30 April 1992. Riots broke out in Los Angeles, 29 April 1992, after a jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating a black youth, Rodney King, in 1991, hours after the verdict was announced. (Photo credit should read CARLOS SCHIEBECK/AFP/Getty Images)
A California Highway patrolman directs raffic around a shopping center engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, 30 April 1992.
(
CARLOS SCHIEBECK/AFP/Getty Images
)

AirTalk listeners: Call in with your memories of the LA Riots that took place 25 years ago.

How has Los Angeles changed since? Do you think what happened 25 years ago can happen again today?

Our number is 866-893-5722.

Guest:

Frank Stoltze, correspondent at KPCC who covers criminal justice and public safety; he reported on the LA riots 25 years ago for KLON / CALNET