TEN YEARS AGO MONDAY, A JURY IN THE LOS ANGELES SUBURB OF SIMI VALLEY ...

World | April 29, 2002, Monday // 00:00

Ten years ago Monday, a jury in the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley acquitted the four white Los Angeles police officers who had been caught on home video repeatedly clubbing King, who had led them on a car chase after they tried to stop him for speeding. The verdict outraged much of the city, and all hell broke loose on the streets of Los Angeles barely an hour after the jury came back. The riot that began that afternoon became one of the nation's bloodiest. It ended three days later with 55 people dead, more than 2,300 injured and 1,100 buildings destroyed.

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