On the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King riots that shook America in 1992, Fox News asked Triawna Wood, a lifelong Los Angeles resident, for her thoughts and insights.
On the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots that shook America in 1992, we asked Triawna Wood, a lifelong Los Angeles resident, for her thoughts and insights. after the Simi Valley jury acquitted Officers Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, and Theodore Briseno for the beating of Rodney King. The riots lasted six days and when the smoke cleared, 63 people were killed, 2,383 were injured and more than 12,000 were arrested. The property damage was estimated to be well over $1 billion.
I remember my brother and sister coming home, my dad coming home, and then I guess hours later, you just started hearing noises outside. People were just outside, more than normal because it was usually pretty quiet. At this time we were living in the back, the very far back of the Jordan Downs projects, right before you got to Alameda. If there was like an earthquake, or random gunshots on a normal day, we would always go to the stairwell in the middle of the house, for safety, for shelter.
I remember the aftermath, the fallout later. After reemerging back into the world and looking at all the mom and pop shops, the liquor stores just boarded up or torn apart. And I remember thinking, as a little tiny four- or five-year-old, what do you make of this?: The most vivid memory was learning that my family members, or people who were close to our family, weren't as savory of characters as I thought they were.
But, at the same time, I remember playing through my head, because I'd seen news clips of the Rodney King video, and I'm like,"Well, but if he was doing something bad, aren't they supposed to beat him up and arrest him?" But I didn't know that there should have been limits then. And so just putting all the puzzle pieces together as a young kid is like,"Oh. So, you don't just beat somebody bloody and then arrest them.
But as far as changing the city? Yeah, I think it changed the city a lot. Especially the black community because it's living through a trauma that never gets acknowledged, never is openly talked about. So there's never room to heal from it, but that's the black experience throughout American history.
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