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About 2,300 Korean-owned stores in southern California were looted or burned, making up 45 percent of all damages caused by the riot. According to the Asian and Pacific American Counseling and Prevention Center, 730 Koreans were treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, which included insomnia and a sense of helplessness and muscle pain. In ...
Three sworn personnel were killed in the riots: a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter was struck when a wall of a fire-weakened structure fell on him while fighting fires in a store, [40] a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy was accidentally shot by another deputy while in a struggle with rioters, [41] and a Long Beach Police Department ...
11 August 1965, Los Angeles, California, US, The McCone Commission investigated the riots finding that causes included poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the passage, in November 1964, of Proposition 14 on the California ballot overturning the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which established equality of opportunity for black home buyers. [7]
A new analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data showed that Latinos and Black people have been arrested at a "disproportionate rate" between 2019 to 2022. ... according to InnerCity Struggle ...
Henry Perez, 46, a Los Angeles resident who entered UCLA in 1995 and is the executive director of the nonprofit organization InnerCity Struggle, remembers being part of "one of the last, if not ...
Los Angeles took Huntington to court over the issue. For two full days in June 1896, White, a California Democrat, took the Senate floor and delivered an indictment of the Southern Pacific's predatory policies. He offered an amendment to the bill that if Santa Monica was chosen, any other railroad could use its harbor for a reasonable fee.
Similarly, Los Angeles officials have slogged through years of negotiations around a sweeping lawsuit, backed by business interests and residents, that targeted the city’s failure to move people ...
Armenian Power graffiti in Little Armenia, Los Angeles MS-13 graffiti. This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California.. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000.