20 Years Since Rodney King: A Letter from the Editor
By Kaylene Peoples | May 5th, 2012 | Category: Articles, Letter from the Editor | 2 comments
When the verdict was read, that’s when all hell broke loose! South Central became the scene of riots, fires, and deaths. I remember. I witnessed it as a passenger in a friend’s car while on the freeway peering into the war zone, where violence and looting erupted almost instantaneously upon the broadcast news that four out of the five cops were found “not guilty.” The Blacks of Los Angeles had finally had enough!
