Comparing The Los Angeles And The Watts Riots Of 1992

During the 1900’s, two riots came about that each took place in Los Angeles and both dealt with social, economic, and political issues. One incident was the Watts Riots of 1965 and the other was the Rodney Kings Riots of 1992 in which both had similarities and differences that were related to the beatings of black citizens by white police officers. We can see how this triggered the caused an outrage and a national debate on police brutality. These riots erupted the social causes burning of buildings and the killings Caucasians even when they had nothing to do with the beating of either black men. A social cause that came from this is that the negroes ended up looting stores, setting fires, beating up Caucasian people who walked by in which they would pull from cars, the burning, stoning and shooting of police officers. An economic cause was that about the blacks damaged about $40 million worth of property during the Watts Riot and over $1 billion during the Rodney Kings Riot. Also,

A similarity would be the fact that both black men were in vehicles and intoxicated, but what was contrasting about these two events was how they were seen and shown. The main reason why the Watts Riot of 1965 came about was because of high unemployment, poor schools, and other inferior living conditions for African Americans in Watts. This was also very similar to the Rodney Kings Riot of 1992 due to the extremely high unemployment among the residents of South Central Los Angeles, which had been hit very hard by the nationwide recession. By this form of segregation and unfair treatment, both events had rioters causing mayhem such as setting fire to buildings, looting, beating up Caucasians, and creating traffic. During both riots, Negroes created chaos in which the National Guardsmen were called in order to restore