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Webster special advisor , and Hubert Williams deputy special advisor, president of the Police Foundation.
Williams named by the Police Commission days before the riots, [] was forced to resign on June 28, In addition to the catalyst of the verdicts in the excessive force trial, various other factors have been cited as causes of the unrest. In the years preceding the riots, several other highly controversial incidents involving police brutality or other perceived injustices against minorities had been criticized by activists and investigated by media.
Thirteen days after the beating of King was widely broadcast, blacks were outraged when Latasha Harlins , a year-old black girl, was mortally shot in the back of the head by a Korean-American shopkeeper, Soon Ja Du, in the course of an assumed shoplifting incident and brief physical altercation. Rioters targeted Korean-American shops in their areas, as there had been considerable tension between the two communities.
Such sources as Newsweek and Time suggested that blacks thought Korean-American merchants were "taking money out of their community", that they were racist as they refused to hire blacks, and often treated them without respect. There were cultural and language differences, as some shop owners were immigrants. There were other factors for social tensions: high rates of poverty and unemployment among the residents of South Central Los Angeles , which had been deeply affected by the nationwide recession. Social commentator Mike Davis pointed to the growing economic disparity in Los Angeles, caused by corporate restructuring and government deregulation, with inner city residents bearing the brunt of such changes.
Such conditions engendered a widespread feeling of frustration and powerlessness in the urban populace.
They reacted to the King verdicts with a violent expression of collective public protest. Conditions of economic inequality, lack of jobs available for black and Latino youth, and civil liberty violations by law enforcement have remained largely unaddressed years later. Davis dubbed this a "conspiracy of silence", especially with claims made by the Los Angeles Police Department that they would make reforms coming to little fruition.
Davis also argued that the rioting was different than in the Watts Riots , which had been more unified among all minorities living in Watts and South Central. The riots, on the other hand, were characterized by divided uproars that defied description of a simple uprising of black against white, and involved the destruction and looting of many businesses owned by racial minorities. It also noted that the decline of industrial jobs in the American economy and the growing ethnic diversity of Los Angeles had contributed to urban problems. Another official report, The City in Crisis , was initiated by the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners; it made many of the same observations as the Assembly Special Committee about the growth of popular urban dissatisfaction.
Rioters were believed to have been motivated by racial tensions but these are considered one of numerous factors. Newsweek reported that "Hispanics and even some whites; men, women and children mingled with African-Americans. In his public statements during the riots, Jesse Jackson , civil rights leader, sympathized with the anger of African-Americans about the verdicts in the King trial, and noted root causes of the disturbances.
He repeatedly emphasized the continuing patterns of racism, police brutality, and economic despair suffered by inner city residents.
Several prominent writers expressed a similar " culture of poverty " argument. Writers in Newsweek , for example, drew a distinction between the actions of the rioters in with those of the urban upheavals in the s, arguing that "[w]here the looting at Watts had been desperate, angry, mean, the mood this time was closer to a manic fiesta, a TV game show with every looter a winner. According to a study in the American Political Science Review found that the riots caused a liberal shift, both in the short-term and long-term, politically.
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton said that the violence resulted from the breakdown of economic opportunities and social institutions in the inner city. He also berated both major political parties for failing to address urban issues, especially the Republican Administration for its presiding over "more than a decade of urban decay" generated by their spending cuts.
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Democrat Maxine Waters , the African-American Congressional representative of South Central Los Angeles, said that the events in Los Angeles constituted a "rebellion" or "insurrection", caused by the underlying reality of poverty and despair existing in the inner city. This state of affairs, she asserted, were brought about by a government that had all but abandoned the poor and failed to help compensate for the loss of local jobs, and by the institutional discrimination encountered by racial minorities, especially at the hands of the police and financial institutions.
Conversely, President Bush argued that the unrest was "purely criminal". Though he acknowledged that the King verdicts were plainly unjust, he said that "we simply cannot condone violence as a way of changing the system Mob brutality, the total loss of respect for human life was sickeningly sad What we saw last night and the night before in Los Angeles is not about civil rights. It's not about the great cause of equality that all Americans must uphold.
It's not a message of protest. It's been the brutality of a mob, pure and simple. Writers for former Congressman Ron Paul framed the riots in similar terms in the June edition of the Ron Paul Political Newsletter , billed as a special issue focusing on "racial terrorism. What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided. In the aftermath of the riots, public pressure mounted for a retrial of the officers.
Federal charges of civil rights violations were brought against them.
As the first anniversary of the acquittal neared, the city tensely awaited the decision of the federal jury. Mindful of criticism of sensationalist reporting after the first trial and during the riots, media outlets opted for more sober coverage. All four of the officers left or were fired from the LAPD. Briseno left the LAPD after being acquitted on both state and federal charges. Wind, who was also twice acquitted, was fired after the appointment of Willie L. Williams as Chief of Police.
The Los Angeles Police Commission declined to renew Williams's contract, citing failure to fulfill his mandate to create meaningful change in the department. Susan Clemmer, an officer who gave a crucial testimony for the defense during the first trial of the officers, committed suicide in July in the lobby of a Los Angeles Sheriff's Station. She had ridden in the ambulance with King and testified that he was laughing and spat blood on her uniform. She had remained in law enforcement and was a Sheriff's Detective at the time of her death. He invested most of this money in founding a hip-hop record label, "Straight Alta-Pazz Records".
The venture was unable to garner success and soon folded. King was later arrested at least eleven times on a variety of charges, including domestic abuse and hit and run. King and his family later returned to Los Angeles, where they ran a family-owned construction company. Until his death on June 17, , King rarely discussed the night of his beating by police or its aftermath, preferring to remain out of the spotlight. King died of an accidental drowning; authorities said that he had alcohol and drugs in his body.
Renee Campbell, his most recent attorney, described King as " With the groups mingled, charges could not be brought against individuals for stealing from specific stores, and the police had to release them all. Many of the looters, fearful of prosecution by law enforcement and condemnation from their neighbors, ended up placing looted items curbside in other neighborhoods to get rid of them. The office of State Senator Diane E.
Watson provided shovels and brooms to volunteers from all over the community who helped clean. Thirteen thousand police and military personnel were on patrol, protecting intact gas stations and food stores; they reopened along with other businesses areas such as the Universal Studios tour , dance halls, and bars. Bush signed a declaration of disaster; it activated Federal relief efforts for the victims of looting and arson, which included grants and low-cost loans to cover their property losses.