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AirTalk’s LA Riots special: What happened 25 years ago
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Apr 28, 2017
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AirTalk’s LA Riots special: What happened 25 years ago
AirTalk listeners: Call in with your memories of the LA Riots that took place 25 years ago.
A California Highway patrolman directs raffic around a shopping center engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, 30 April 1992. Riots broke out in Los Angeles, 29 April 1992, after a jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating a black youth, Rodney King, in 1991, hours after the verdict was announced. (Photo credit should read CARLOS SCHIEBECK/AFP/Getty Images)
A California Highway patrolman directs raffic around a shopping center engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, 30 April 1992.
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CARLOS SCHIEBECK/AFP/Getty Images
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AirTalk listeners: Call in with your memories of the LA Riots that took place 25 years ago.

AirTalk listeners: Call in with your memories of the LA Riots that took place 25 years ago.

How has Los Angeles changed since? Do you think what happened 25 years ago can happen again today?

Our number is 866-893-5722.

Guest:

Frank Stoltze, correspondent at KPCC who covers criminal justice and public safety; he reported on the LA riots 25 years ago for KLON / CALNET

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Larry Mantle
Host, AirTalk
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Austin Cross
Host, Morning Edition, AirTalk Friday, The L.A. Report A.M. Edition
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Matt Dangelantonio
Senior Producer, AirTalk & FilmWeek
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Lucy Copp
Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle
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Manny Valladares
Associate Producer, AirTalk & FilmWeek
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Payton Seda
Associate Producer, on-call
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Emma Fox
Apprentice News Clerk, AirTalk
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