L.A. Burns: Fire advancing near Los Angeles, Firefighters Killed

Two firefighters have died as a deadly wildfire is now making advances closer toward the city of Los Angeles. Homes destroyed and thousands are told to evacuate..

Fire in Los Angeles now 'Out of Control'

California Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger says that the wildfire in Los Angeles in now 'Out of Control', as he tell's tens of thousands of residents to evacuate ..

Los Angeles Man Kills Wife, 5 Kids, Self, Over Job Loss

An L.A. area man has killed his wife and 5 children and then himself over his recent job loss..

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Another Violent Weekend In Los Angeles

At least eight people died in violence across Los Angeles County over the weekend, including five homicides during a 4 1/2 -hour stretch....

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The Brutal Los Angeles Riots of 1992

California Market owner Richard Rhee returns fire at looters approaching his market in Koreatown, Los Angeles on the second day of the Los Angeles Riots.











"I hold the L.A.P.D. and those 4 officers solely responsible for those riots...."
Los Angeles City Councilman

After the riots, the Department of Justice reinstated investigation and obtained an indictment of violations of federal civil rights against the four officers.


The Riots

The Los Angeles riots of 1992, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit.

Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson, and murder occurred, and property damages totaled one billion dollars.




The rioting had been sparked by the Rodney King beating.

Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California) is an African-American taxi driver who, in 1991, was stopped and then beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sergeant Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. A bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the event from a distance.

Part of the video was broadcast around the world and shows four LA police officers restraining and repeatedly striking a black man, while four to six other officers stand by. There is no part of the tape that shows Mr. King attacking the officers, as some have claimed. King had also been tasered by the officers.

The resulting public outrage raised tensions between the black community and the LAPD, and increased anger over police brutality and issues such as unemployment, racial tension, and poverty in the black community. The four officers were tried in a state court for using excessive force, but were acquitted, the announcement of the acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

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L.A. Shakedown. Earthquakes-

If L.A. thought that was bad, look at what happened in Anchorage Alaska in 1964. On good friday. That quake had a magnitude 9.2!

Want to read about a REAL BIG quake? Great Alaska Earthquake

Heres' how 'wikipedia' describes earthquakes:

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude of an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly obsolete Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale.

At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by a shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activity.

In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans—that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, huge amounts of gas migration, mainly methane deep within the earth, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments.

An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The term epicenter means the point at ground level directly above this. read more


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