Neither of the two people showcased in the video above actually survived the riot--I did. It was the day after the riot and I was driving through south central LA looking for an address with a large paper map. I was an apprentice computer technician, being trained on-the-job by my boss, Zev Gobst. One of Zev's clients was in need of having two of his CRT monitors replaced, and Zev taught me how to replace them (without electrocuting myself) the same morning. I was 23 years old (now 52), in a black minivan, wearing a jacket and tie, looking for an address in an area where smoke was still billowing out of buildings and cars. I finally found the street where the client's business was located and turned right, with the paper map largely obscuring the view ahead of me. I turned the corner, dropped the map into the passenger seat and my heart sank. Ahead of me were more than a thousand black and hispanic men, milling about in anger and frustration. Along the sides of the street were cardboard boxes and blankets set up as makeshift shelters, while smoke wafted out of broken windows of buildings and a few cars. I came to a dead stop and was about to put the minivan into reverse, when I heard a voice in my head say, "Put this thing in reverse and you're dead." I didn't have to question the voice; I immediately knew what it meant---if I had put my car in reverse, the men in the street would have seen it, been incensed by it, and would have swarmed and killed me. Instead, I put the vehicle into low gear, and crawled slowly forward at one mile per hour. The men parted the middle of the street and allowed me to pass, but not without protest. One man wearing a dew rag slammed his fist on the hood of my car and said, "Get out the car, muthafucka!" Another man to my left pushed the top of my minivan and tried to get the others to join in and roll my car over, but no-one joined in. As I inched forward I made eye contact with as many men as I could, nodding my head towards them, and saying things like "Good morning; what's up, man; hey, how's it goin';" among other signs of respect. The men let me pass and I made it to the end of the street and parked my car in client's parking lot. I got out, opened the back hatch, took out my toolbox and replacement parts, while looking over my left shoulder a few times to see if anyone was going to jump me. No-one was looking at me! I went into the business, apologized to the client for being late, and he commented that he had watched my approach from the far end of the street, as he had been looking out the window to observe the crowd of men outside. He was amazed that I was still alive, and so was I. I still have no idea why I wasn't dragged out of my car and beaten to death. Maybe the riot had taken the fight out of the men / maybe they didn't see me as a threat (at 23 I looked like I was about seventeen) / maybe my respectful attitude and the fact that I didn't insult the men by running got me safely to the end of the street / maybe a flock of angels were working overtime on my behalf. The point is---I survived. Something HAS changed in America since 1992. Politicians have incited identity and social justice politics to gain power. We now live in an America where young people feel entitled to opportunity and success at levels my grandparents could only imagine in their grandest dreams. After the Berlin wall fell, socialists and communists fled to the West and joined academia and Hollywood, where they have systematically worked to engender hatred towards America for being the beacon of freedom that it is. There are elitists in our world who believe that they have a right to be superior to everyone else, and the rest of us are supposed to fall in line with their rule and be grateful for it. They hate freedom for the masses--they believe that we should be ruled, not governed. Their agenda is to instill socialism, which they know will fail, only to replace socialism with total government--communism. We'll all dress the same, look the same (you can forget about diversity), listen to the same state-approved music, watch government-sanctioned programming, we'll all make the same wages no matter what our level of education or expertise, and we'll all be happy. And if we're not happy, too bad. All the while, the elitists (people who toe the party line--actors/musicians/athletes/politicians/academia) will enjoy lives of luxury and privilege, just like the elite did during the years of the former Soviet Union. Something HAS changed in America. Socialist politicians are dividing us like never before in history, and they will drive us into an era of unprecedented misery.

In 30 years, the black community has evolved or changed, they continue and hardened down as racists, racism is alive and well within the black community.

GET RID OF THE dimoCRAPPERS AND ALL THIS TROUBLE GOES AWAY. A MIRACLE...

Well I don agree. Since Miranda rights of course the legal justice system have and objective evolution, other sensible cases as you mentioned obviously change the way of police conduct, I think the best police is the America Police you can be proud of your officials. In other hand you can compare with other states and levels of jurisdiction in USA and the traits you receive no matter the color or religion or belies is abismal different. This case is like in Mexico said: "A cloud doesn't mean a Storm" it's sad. Yes it's sad, it's sad that a man accused of falsificate a 20 dollars biil to by a cigarette package, tht the common sense for it self it's absurd and accused for an young employee equally absurd with the minimal criteria to judge, die in and absurd arrest by a police with mental disability, but it is a insulated and very quoted case. That used now to vandalize all America. It's fair??? Media really act with social responsibility??? Don't fly, down to earth, 90 percent are merely suppositions. And protests are absolutely lack of propositions, are empty, the minorities in all the world are the ones that first discriminate other's or better said discriminate the normality. In school the children must learn, that if they want to be different can do it but in positively way, be the best Engenieer, the best police, the best clerk etc. America is over kind to permit manifestations of people that migrate to USA and want to continue live as in their own countries, use kippa and Halloween hat and suit to show their belong to different minority and of course discriminate other's, some, use Vails, and thinks like that, it's normal? Thank you

It was hell on earth in L.A at the time.

It just got a whole lot worse