'Just Like The 1992 Riots': Los Angeles Protests Compared To Historic Rodney King Rampage — 13 Years After Cop Beating Victim Was Found Dead At The Bottom of His Swimming Pool Source: YouTube/@msnbc ...

A Korean shopping mall burns April 30, 1992, in Los Angeles on the second day of rioting in the city following the acquittal of four police officers for the 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King.

They became the stuff of Second Amendment lore — young men with firearms, patrolling the streets and positioned on rooftops in the Koreatown neighborhood during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Unlike the 1992 riots, protests have mainly been peaceful and been confined to a roughly five-block stretch of downtown LA, a tiny patch in the sprawling city of nearly 4 million people.