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Henry Alfaro | ... |
Himself - KABC Reporter
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Danny Bakewell | ... |
Himself - Civl Rights Activist
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John D. Barnett | ... |
Himself - Attorney for Theodore Briseno
(archive footage) (as John Barnett)
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Michael Bostic | ... |
Himself - LAPD Commander
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Tom Bradley | ... |
Himself - Los Angeles Mayor
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Theodore Briseno | ... |
Himself - Defendant
(archive footage) (as Officer Theodore Briseno)
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| Tom Brokaw | ... |
Himself
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| George Bush | ... |
Himself
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Edward Chang | ... |
Himself - Black-Korean Alliance
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| Bill Clinton | ... |
Himself - Democratic Presidential Candidate
(archive footage) (as Gov. Bill Clinton)
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Soon Ja Du | ... |
Herself
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John Ferraro | ... |
Himself - Council President District 4
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| Daryl Gates | ... |
Himself - LAPD Chief
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Joyce Karlin | ... |
Herself - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
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| Rodney King | ... |
Himself
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Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.
A friend of mine asked me if I've seen this. "You must see it", he said, "I was on the edge of my seat the whole documentary". Figuratively, I of course assumed. But it wasn't figuratively.
It was literally.
Half-way through it I realized that my muscles were tense and my breath shallow, there could have been a riot going on outside without me noticing, because I was in the middle of the 1992 LA riots. This documentary is intense, it's frightening, it's scary, and all just by showing archive footage with some added music.
It gives a perspective on what led to the riots, and it draws sometimes eerie comparisons to the Watts riots. I would argue that this is an important documentary. It's brutal, it's frightening, it's sad, it might make you nauseous, and it will probably make you think.
It's extraordinary. Just... Just watch it.