Wednesday, April 18, 2018

FOUNDING OBJECT: Footage of 1992 L.A Riot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkn0P6oLoj4

There are many different channel footages being shown in this video clip, most are mainly from the state of chaos and fire up from a helicopter. But this particular first footage is a real live audio recording from KTLA Channel 7 News during the 1992 L.A Riot. On the news is a footage of the live scene where LA was engulfed with fire at numerous locations and destruction was seen as well. The 2 news anchormen who is on the line is patiently waiting for an interview with Reverend Leonard Jackson, who's from the 1st AME Church. From what was said by the 2 anchormen, the incident first took place as a peaceful rally around the previous day at 7pm but then became a riot. In the interview Jackson wasn't able to give an answer to how and why of the sudden outburst of the situation but he then plead for all pastors and leaders located in the city of Los Angeles to contact the members of the Congregation by any means possible. Jackson then goes onto implying that the congregation members to be responsible for themselves, their families and especially their children. 

Another particular video clip from the same youtube video link, KTLA Channel 5 LIVE had a reporter where he was describing the scene of the fire and then another female reporter joined in to commentary. The male reporter then starts to describe how the fire was burning all the way alongside the Hollywood Blvd, and that many buildings in LA were being torn and burned down in a rapid state. He also then points out how many people were still at the scene dealing with the brutal chasing of the police. What the female reporter then points out about the fire really triggered how ruthless the city of LA towards racism is. She said, "Since the source of the situation is fire with at least the 100 firefighters in LA, those fire could be put out immediately, without ease in about 30-40 minutes even of that magnitude." And then the reporter agrees with the female reporter by adding, "Yeah I agree with you, they do this at least everyday, and how quickly they could handle them and never let the fire get to these situations." This honestly shows how the firefighters could've taken care of the tremendous and dangerous situation with much ease but because the city of LA is going against colored races, they decided to let the building burn and let innocent people get injured and killed just because of their own viewpoint and how they support being segregated  of the Superior whites to the Inferior colored race. If they could've helped take the fire out, then LA would've not been labeled historically for 50 dead, over 4,000 were injured and cost $1 billion in property damage back in 1992.

-Qian Mei Guo

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