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...jurors had promised to ignore the possibility that their decision might cause riots. Other Angelenos were not so sworn. Los Angeles police chief Willie Williams said 6,500 officers would be at ready when deliberations began. A second flammable trial, of Reginald Denny's alleged attackers, was postponed, to widespread relief. A hotline was installed to handle rumors, like that of black gangs' targeting white suburbs. Youths with carbines and "Korean Watch Team" jackets prepared to patrol Koreatown's perimeter. All knew the stakes: if things went really wrong, L.A. risked becoming America-as- Yugoslavia, a collection of warring enclaves...
...RODNEY KING CASE WENT TO the jury last week, Los Angeles residents were keeping a wary eye on another case involving a videotaped beating: the assault on white truck driver Reginald Denny by a group of black men at the outset of last year's riot. Although the parallels between the two incidents are largely superficial, many African Americans tend to equate them. The case against the three men accused in the Denny assault has become a symbol of the disparity between how whites and blacks are treated by the criminal-justice system. Many Angelenos fear that a volatile situation...
TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published weekly for $61.88 per year, by Time Inc. Principal Office: Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y., 10020-1393. Reginald K. Brack Jr., Chairman; Joseph A. Ripp, Treasurer; Harry M. Johnston, Secretary. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing offices. (c) 1992 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. TIME and the Red Border Design are protected through trademark registration in the United States and in the foreign countries where TIME magazine circulates. POSTMASTER: Send address changes...
Ready or not, the city is being tested again. The outcomes of two cases, the second trial of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the scheduled trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio...
CHAIRMAN, CEO: Reginald K. Brack...