![]() Tensions also mounted in Las Vegas that month, following the verdict. The verdict led to looting, fires and violence in the streets. after four white Los Angeles Police Department officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. In late April 1992, riots erupted in L.A. It is a conversation that is especially timely this year, with the recent protests surrounding racial injustice. The Rodney King riots in 1992 sparked a racial reckoning in Los Angeles - and here in Las Vegas. If you caught the season four premiere of “S.W.A.T.” on CBS, you probably saw images that were familiar. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - 8 News Now is taking a look at the civil unrest in Las Vegas, from after the Rodney King verdict in 1992, to the 2020 protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
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