Protest organizers say South LA deliberately avoided to target more affluent areas instead

Organizers of protests in Los Angeles against police brutality say they have deliberately avoided South L. A. in order to focus on more affluent areas like Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

Los Angeles, like other major cities nationwide, has been dealing with mass protests sparked by the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, who died after a white police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Many of these protests have been peaceful, but others have descended into rioting and looting that has left some businesses and buildings in ruins.

The civil unrest, and its racial implications, has been compared to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which broke out after a jury acquitted four white officers in the beating of Rodney King, who was black.

The subsequent violence lasted five days and resulted in more than 60 deaths and some 2,383 injuries. And like the scenes playing out across the country this week, many businesses were looted, and in some cases, burned to the ground.

The rioting and destruction were confined largely to South L. A., an area of mostly poor black and... (Read more)

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