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The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, and the Los Angeles uprising,〔http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/rodney-king-case-and-los-angeles-uprising〕 were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, in 1992, following the acquittal of police officers on trial regarding the videotaped and widely published arrest of Rodney King. They were the largest riots seen in the United States since the Detroit Riot of 1967, the largest in Los Angeles since the Watts Riot of 1965, and the worst in terms of death toll after the New York City draft riots of 1863. The riot started in South Central Los Angeles and then spread out into other areas over a six-day period within the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California, beginning in April 1992. The riots started on April 29 after a trial jury acquitted four police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King, following a high-speed police chase. Thousands of people throughout the metropolitan area in Los Angeles rioted over six days following the announcement of the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson, and killings occurred during the riots, and estimates of property damage was over $1 billion. The rioting ended after members of the California Army National Guard, the 7th Infantry Division, and the 1st Marine Division were called in to stop the rioting when the local police could not control the situation. In total, 53 people were killed during the riots and over 2,000 people were injured.〔("The L.A. 53" ). By Jim Crogan. ''LA Weekly''. April 24, 2002.〕〔("Riot anniversary tour surveys progress and economic challenges in Los Angeles" ). By Stan Wilson. CNN. April 25, 2012.〕 After the riots subsided, an inquiry was commissioned by the city Police Commission, led by William H. Webster (special advisor), and Hubert Williams (deputy special advisor, the then president of the Police Foundation). The findings of the inquiry, ''The City in Crisis: A Report by the Special Advisor to the Board of Police Commissioners on the Civil Disorder in Los Angeles'', also colloquially known as the ''Webster Report'' or ''Webster Commission'', was released on October 21, 1992. LAPD chief of police Daryl Gates, who had seen his successor Willie L. Williams named by the Police Commission only days before the riots, was forced to resign on June 28, 1992. For the city of Los Angeles itself, there were other significant long term consequences from the riots: an increase in hiring of minority officers, analysis of excessive force, loss of support for the Mayor of Los Angeles, and analysis of the general political and economic atmosphere that contributed to the riots. ==Background== (詳細はRodney King and two passengers were driving west on the Foothill Freeway (I-210) through the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) attempted to initiate a traffic stop. A high-speed pursuit ensued with speeds estimated at up to 115 mph first over freeways, and then through residential neighborhoods. When King came to a stop, CHP Officer Timothy Singer and his wife, CHP Officer Melanie Singer, ordered the occupants under arrest. After two passengers were placed in the patrol car, five white Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers (Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Rolando Solano) attempted to subdue King, who came out of the car last. King was tasered, struck with side-handled batons, then tackled to the ground and cuffed. The officers claimed that King was under the influence of PCP at the time of arrest, which caused him to be very aggressive and violent toward the officers. Koon said King resisted arrest.〔 Video footage of the arrest showed that he was attempting to get up each time he was struck, and that the police made no attempt to cuff him until he lay still. A subsequent test for the presence of PCP several days later turned up negative. The incident was captured on a camcorder by resident George Holliday from his apartment in the vicinity. The tape was roughly twelve minutes long. While the case was presented to the court, clips of the incident were not released to the public. In a later interview, King, who was on parole for a robbery conviction and had past convictions for assault, battery and robbery,〔(Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD ) pages 41–42〕 said that he had not surrendered earlier because he knew that an arrest for DUI would violate the terms of his parole. The footage of King being beaten by police while lying on the ground became a focus for media attention and a rallying point for activists in Los Angeles and around the United States. Coverage was extensive during the initial two weeks after the incident: the ''Los Angeles Times'' published forty-three articles about the incident, ''The New York Times'' published seventeen articles, and the ''Chicago Tribune'' published eleven articles. Eight stories appeared on ABC News, including a sixty-minute special on ''Primetime Live''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.spottelevision.com/breakingnews/lariots20yearslater.html )〕 The footage was shocking. LAPD chief Gates upon watching the tape of the beating later said: "I stared at the screen in disbelief. I played the one-minute-50-second tape again. Then again and again, until I had viewed it 25 times. And still I could not believe what I was looking at. To see my officers engage in what appeared to be excessive use of force, possibly criminally excessive, to see them beat a man with their batons 56 times, to see a sergeant on the scene who did nothing to seize control, was something I never dreamed I would witness."〔"Baltimore Is Everywhere: A Partial Culling of Unrest Across America," (Condensed from the ''Encyclopedia of American Race Riots'', ed. Walter Rucker and James Nathaniel Upton), ''New York'' magazine, May 18–31, 2015, p.33〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1992 Los Angeles riots」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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