1992 Los Angeles Riots and Uprising

On April 29, 1992, a Simi Valley jury acquitted the four LAPD officers who had beaten Rodney King, triggering six days of civil unrest across Los Angeles. Sixty-three people died, over 2,000 were injured, approximately 12,000 were arrested, and property damage exceeded one billion dollars. Federal troops and the National Guard were deployed. The uprising was the deadliest in the United States since the 1967 Detroit uprising and exposed deep fault lines of race, policing, and economic inequality in one of America's largest cities. A subsequent federal civil rights prosecution convicted two officers.