What Photographers Of The LA Riots Really Saw Behind The Lens

Few people in their right minds would have stayed outside the night the verdicts came down. On April 29, 1992, a Los Angeles court found four police officers not guilty in the brutal beating of black motorist Rodney King. Within hours, the city was on fire, and it burned for days, becoming a defining moment for black resistance and the long, dark history of race in America. Los Angeles was primed to erupt. The video of King’s beating compounded months of tension between the...