Monday, May 8, 2017
The LA Riots
The LA Riots were a huge problem during the 90s. Because of the bad relationship between police and the minorities of Los Angeles, a lot of innocent people died, simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. One person who experienced this directly was Reginald Denny, a truck driver who was simply driving his route when he got dragged out of his truck and gets severely beaten up by the rioters. He was struck in the head multiple times with things like bricks, gets kicked, punched, jumped on. He would have died in the street if not for a few people who were watching on TV and decided they needed to do something. My main question is why these innocent people got attacked at all. If the bad relationship, was between the minorities and the police, why did these people who had nothing to do with the issue get attacked? And if it was getting to the point where people were dying in the streets because of the rioters, shouldn't the police step in, or would that only have fueled the anger of the rioters more?
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It was a super tough situation for the police to be in. First of all, they didn't want to escalate anger at the police even more. Also, they wanted to show the public how violent these people could be so that the public would side with the police. However, the people that were rioting did not represent the voice of the whole black community. While most of them probably saw police brutality as an issue, they didn't want to hurt innocent people. Luckily, other people from the black community stepped in to show that this was not ok and that there were other ways to go about stopping police brutality.
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