Hollywood Riots
April 29th, 1992 can you recall what you were doing that day? Or do you even remember what that day is? Let my refresh your memory, April 29th, 1992 was the beginning of the L.A riots also knows as the Rodney Kings riots. This was due to the racial discrimination that was going around in the south central area of Los Angeles and eventually spread out into other areas over a six-day period in Los Angeles. Mr. Farris Principle of Culver City High School recalls every single moment of that day as it was a very life changing moment for him.
Mr. Farris was a junior in Hamilton High school, had a job at E-G Roberts as a locker room attendant for swimming pool. He took the bus back home from work and once he got him things has just started on Florence and Normandy. He got to watch the news coverage that’s was being broadcasted on the helicopter filming people getting pulled out of their vehicle and get beat in the middle of the street. Mr. Farris witnessed Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver, getting beaten nearly to death by a group of black assailants who came to be known as the “L.A Four”. This video was broadcast live on US national television. As Mr. Farris kept watching the Police weren’t doing anything about it. Some just drove by like nothing was happening at all. This triggered everyone in thinking that the cops aren’t going to do anything so why not go crazy. From that moment people just came out of there houses and started looting, setting things on fire, beating up innocent people. As Mr. Farris recalls some people he knew didn’t go out to riot politically, but just to go grab things from business like Tv’s, Vcr’s etc. The only way the police would come help the business is if they carried weaponry. As a few days passed Mr. Farris went back to work he saw a guy carrying a bag of guns and showed it to him also asked if he wanted to buy some. This changed his whole life as his mom decided that she didn’t want to live in L.A...