Daryl Gates, Chief of the LAPD from 1978 to 1992, has been attributed with much of the blame for the riots. Background South Central Los Angeles, where much of the rioting took place Policing in Los Angeles īefore the release of the Rodney King videotape, minority community leaders in Los Angeles had repeatedly complained about harassment and use of excessive force against their residents by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers. Much of the blame for the extensive nature of the violence was attributed to LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates, who had already announced his resignation by the time of the riots, for failure to de-escalate the situation and overall mismanagement.
Koreatown, situated just to the north of South Central LA, was disproportionately damaged. When the riots ended, 63 people had been killed, 2,383 had been injured, more than 12,000 had been arrested, and estimates of property damage were over $1 billion, making it the most destructive period of local unrest in U.S. The situation in the Los Angeles area was resolved after the California National Guard, United States military, and several federal law enforcement agencies deployed more than 10,000 of their armed first responders to assist in ending the violence and unrest. Widespread looting, assault, and arson occurred during the riots, which local police forces had difficulty controlling. The rioting took place in several areas in the Los Angeles metropolitan area as thousands of people rioted over six days following the verdict's announcement. The incident had been videotaped by George Holliday, who was a bystander to the incident, and was heavily broadcast in news and media outlets. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. The 1992 Los Angeles riots, (also called the Rodney King riots, the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, or Sa-I-Gu in Korean) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentĪrmed civilians, notably from Korean American communities, defending property from rioters and looters.
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