Los Angeles: The uprising for the torture of a African American

The command Trump To develop the National Guard in Los Angeles after demonstrations that are inquiry into the US president’s anti -immigration policy, it awakens memories from the last time the army went to the streets of the country’s second largest city.

The mobilizations and conflicts that have been in the last three days in Los Angeles with protesters encircle the ICE agents attempting to capture immigrants without papers, not be the same extent of the episodes that shocked the big city in April 1992, but in April 1992.

The 2,000 troops of the National Guard have not yet been deployed on the streets of Los Angeles and how to continue the mobilizations will be largely judged on Sunday.

The threat of the National Guard, without the consent of the Democratic Governor of California, has turned the eye to the US and connections to the past is already being made to US media.

The uprising that shocked the US

In April 1992, a US court acquitted the four white police officers who tortured a African -American beating him wildly because he did not stop with his car in a signal for inspection.

Rodney King’s beating was captured in a video by a resident of the area and turned around the world. It seemed to be the police stalled on the road and hitting him with rage all his body and head using their clubs and tears.

The images would be repeated decades later with the assassination of George Floid and the outburst of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The court ruling caused a wave of rage with episodes and demonstrations to erupt on the streets of Los Angeles. For six days the city surrendered to the flames, while not only blacks but also Latin Americans and white young people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNCCGimCoog

Systemic racism was not the only cause of the uprising. After Reagan’s « neoliberal revolution », the riots showed the other side of America, behind the glittering Hollywood lights. Poverty and inequality America came to the fore despite the fact that then US President George W. W. Bush could boast of his victory in the Gulf War, who did not say anything to the young people of Los Angeles.

Journalist and writer Louis Rodriguez would then write: « In cities across the country, all kinds of people demonstrated against the verdict of the case Rodney King, a matter with which most Americans agree independently of color. Although the ‘racial’ is here. (ed of neoliberalism) that began years ago. « 

The bloody report was over 60 dead while the damage was $ 1 billion.

Los Angeles: The uprising for the torture of a African American

Donald Trump has relegated as « number one » on his agenda to fight immigration. Racist rhetoric combined with broom operations has been disputed by the beginning of its presidency with mobilizations in favor of immigrants to break out in various parts of the country. Recent events in Los Angeles are the culmination of mobilizations so far.

The siege of government buildings by protesters and clashes with the police are causing concern for the Trump administration elected by the slogan of « law and order » and does not in any way seem to be weak on this front.

Racism is the Trump refuge that has been forced to retreat on the duty front and does not make any progress on the agenda of its foreign policy.

His decision to lower the army to the streets – and if that eventually happens – is an escalation with unpredictable consequences in a America that class inequalities and polarization are much more apparent since 1992.