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Gonzales 1 Andrew Gonzales Mr.Farlow English 1A October 23, 1997 Violence of a Minority The world was shocked by the video tape showing a black motorist being beaten by white police officers. No one had expected that a jury viewing this tape would find the four police officers to be not guilty of using excessive force against Rodney King. The Los Angeles Police Department was unprepared when the personal shock over the trial outcome turned into angry and violent crowd behavior. Koreans did not seem to anticipate that the black rage against the white establishment would be diverted into looting their grocery stores and burning their small businesses. City officials, the police and local merchants did not expect Hispanic immigrants, who were becoming known as the new silent majority on the Los Angeles scene, to be found in large numbers among the participants in the rioting and looting that took place after the verdict. In essence, the Los Angeles riots appeared to be a reenactment of......

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