This is a newspaper article from a little over a week after the verdict on
April 29. The author goes over the events that happened after the verdict like
all the looting and violence that are happening on Florence and Normandie
Avenues. They also mentioned the statistics of the damage to buildings from all
the violent protests and the amount of people arrested or injured. A big
portion of the article is about the accounts from officers that were initially
in the front lines before they pulled back and what the LAPD did to protect the
city during and after the riots. The article also included a part where a
church wanted to protest peacefully and was also the only building to be left
standing after the destruction.
Most of the accounts from officers were that they weren’t
allowed to move in and try to control the area to prevent more damage and
violence. The officers also thought that they would bring more forces because
they knew that the amount of officers that they have would be able to suppress
the riot. It looks like the whole department was in a total mess even though
they had barely prepared for what was to happen. There is some disappointment
in officers since they couldn’t do anything because of their orders to pull
back. This gives a little context on what we said in class about the police
only protecting the nicer neighborhoods and left other neighborhoods to be
destroyed.
-Keman Guan
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