We thought it would be of great interest to our readers, who may have missed this broadcast, to print a transcript of this segment. This report is living history in its truest sense, showing how nations react at a time of strife. This report on cultural history shows that no matter how strong the lessons of History are, we are condemned to forever repeat mistakes unless we as a people act to change it. Nightline : The Los Angeles. Riots and a View of History. Frankenstein (Universal Studios Classic Monster. Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection. ABC News Nightline L.A. Riots: A View Of History Full Movie. Riots erupt in Los Angeles. The New York City Draft Riots. View Karyn J Taylor’s professional profile on LinkedIn. Producer, '20/20' ABC NEWS. Ted Koppel: For President Bush, a close- up view of a riot’s aftermath, and plenty of unsolicited advice. Los Angeles Riot Area Resident: If we’re going to rebuild this devastation, it’s going to have to be billions of dollars, billions of dollars, and the only place where that’s going to come from is Washington, and it didn’t come 2. I doubt if it will come now. Koppel: Tonight, lessons from past racial unrest, and how the L. A. There is, after all, scarcely a corner of the world so remote that it does not receive instantaneous satellite transmissions from the United States. And particularly in these countries that resent America’s strength and its claims to global leadership, there is a certain glee, what the Germans call “schaden- freude,” taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune. It was probably to be expected, then, that other governments which have bridled under U. S. The riots in Los Angeles received extensive coverage here, just at a time when the Israeli army was fending off charges that it was following a shoot- to- kill policy against protesters. Josef Goell, Columnist, “Jerusalem Post”: Perhaps an Israeli would be justified telling his well- intentioned American friend, you know, “Come off it, ha- ha, we’ve both got problems.”Renolds: In Iraq, the government, which has repeatedly been condemned by the United Nations, quickly called for a Security Council debate on the Los Angeles disturbances. Looting of Circuit City in Hollywood after verdict in Rodney King case. Verdict-ABC NEWS REPORT Nightline - Duration. Riots - The First 24. The 1992 Los Angeles riots. ABC Nightline special Moment of Crisis. Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran, Bill Weir. Search the history of over 502 billion pages on the Internet. Watch full episodes of Riot and get the latest breaking news. ABC News Nightline L.A. Riots: A View of History By ABC News Buy New: $14.95; Riot On Sunset Strip. Asian Americans and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Angela Oh’s groundbreaking moment came during her appearance on ABC Nightline. Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi said the verdict in the Rodney King trial proves that the two Libyans accused in the Lockerbie bombing would never get a fair trial from an American jury. And Iran’s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Khameini, said the Los Angeles uprising, as he put it, shows that the United States has no business pointing its finger at others. Ayatollah Khameini: (through interpreter) The leader refuted Washington’s claim to be the forerunner of human life in the world, as millions of Americans have been deprived of their basic civil rights in the U. S. China has reported the rioting in Los Angeles to make a case to its people that there are violations of human rights in the United States, and asked what right America has to act as “the world’s human rights policeman”. One newspaper said the riots showed the hypocrisy of democracy, and the morbid state of American society. The reports created a chilling sense of an American city under siege. Beijing President: I know . Carrel: Television news ran factual reports stressing the victimization of Blacks, them took more potshots at racism in America. The Chinese want to deflect criticism of their own extensive violations of human rights, perhaps believing that images of National Guard troops moving into Los Angeles neighborhoods are somehow equivalent to the Chinese army’s massacre of peaceful protesters in Beijing, or that the brutality of the Rodney King beating might somehow offset China’s systematic beatings and persecution of Tibetans who have agitated for independence. One difference is that this footage was never shown on Chinese television. JOHANNESBURGDon Kladstrup, ABC News: (voice- over) This is Don Kladstrup in South Africa, where racial violence and tensions between the police and community are not the exception, but the norm. People are used to riots, used to running battles with police, used to death. But when they saw it happen in Los Angeles, they were shocked. SOUTH AFRICAN: I’ve seen that racism is still there in America. SOUTH AFRICAN: You know, I didn’t think something like that could happen over there, I thought it was only something that, you know, we saw here in South Africa, not over there. Don Kladstrup, (voice- over) Commentators played the story straight, as did most newspapers, though one asked, “How many times has the United States, that paragon of virtue, read us the riot act on civil rights and treatment of Blacks? It should clean up its own back yard before it tries to clean up ours.”Aggrey Klaaste, Editor, “Soweto”: It’s a terrible letdown, really, for people who have held up America as a land of freedom and the land of democracy, you know, to see this kind of thing. Don Kladstrup: (voice- over) For some, however, it is cold comfort. German TV had planned to lead with domestic news, a major national strike. The riots changed that. Los Angeles overshadowed everything when the rioters hit the streets. Lothar Loewe, Newspaper Columnist: People looked at it incredibly, to see Los Angeles, an American city, like a war zone. Jerry King: (voice- over) According to one newspaper, this was “Hatred in America. It looked like Kuwait on fire, it disturbed Germans.”Berlin President: We saw America as a state of freedom, and this is a real revolution, you know. Jerry King: (voice- over) His conclusion? Los Angeles is not very far away, and it certainly was not very far from the minds of these young Germans taking part in the traditional May Day march here. MOSCOWDavid Ensor, ABC News: (voice- over) This is David Ensor in Moscow. Russians have seen the same pictures Americans saw, of what Russian television calls “the calamity in the United States.”But the sharpest comments are in the print media, several newspapers using the riots as grist for America- bashing, cold- war style. The newspaper Izvestia wrote, “In America, they still lynch Negroes.” Said Sovietskaye Rossia, “The American melting pot is just propaganda, a myth.”Alexander Merkushev. Russian Information Agency: They want to stress the ills of the capitalist society, especially in the United States, which many democratic newspapers portray now as an example we all have to follow. David Ensor, (voice- over) Halfway around the world from Los Angeles, in the ex- Soviet republic of Tajikistan, anti- government demonstrators were warned by the regime, “Stop your protest or we will use Los Angeles measures against you.” For those opposed to reforms here, the news from America provides a political opportunity, a chance to argue that democracy American- style is no model for Russia. I’m David Ensor for Nightline, in Moscow. Kopple: When we come back, we’ll take a look at the lessons of racial unrest from the past, but first, when we return, we accompany President Bush as he ventures into urban America for a survey of the damage in Los Angeles. Who would do the best to improve conditions for poor people? Clinton 4. 1%; Perot 2. Bush 1. 5%). The President, who has been criticized for being out of touch with urban America, got a firsthand look at the destruction in Los Angeles. Still, as Jackie Judd reports, interaction with the victims was limited. Jackie Judd, ABC News: (voice- over) President Bush saw up close, but not very personal, the devastation of south central Los Angeles. City leaders were his guide through the day. Some business people shared stories about the loss of their livelihoods, and apparently the President had a sympathetic ear. Los Angeles Riot Area Resident: He said he’s going to- he definitely put it on his agenda to come back again. Jackie Judd : And if he forgets, you’re supposed to send him a note? Los Angeles Riot Area Resident: I’m supposed to send him a note if he forgets, and hope he gets the note. Jackie Judd : (voice- over) But the people who live in these neighborhoods didn’t get near the President. They stood on the sidelines with more than a little skepticism. Los Angeles Riot Area Resident: And then first come words, then comes the action. Los Angeles Riot Area Resident: It took for our community to get destroyed for him to come down here. Jackie Judd : (voice- over) The White House insists the trip here was not a political visit for the President. Still, appearances like this one with local police have become regular features of the Bush campaign. It didn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated by the police commander. Michael Bostic, Police Commander: The press has taken a pretty good heyday on beating us up for the last few days, so it’s kind of nice to hear somebody in charge say something nice about all the hard work that a lot a of good police officers have done. Jackie Judd : (voice- over) Later, at a church, Mr. Bush seemed moved by the destruction he had earlier seen. George Bush : And we are our brother’s keeper, not to keep him back, not to keep him down, but to keep him well, and to keep him safe, and to give him a shot at the American dream. Jackie Judd: (voice- over) Outside the church, a moment of unbridled emotion, unseen and unheard by the President. Rodney White, Carpenter: Him and Reagan are the ones that caused this. Then they come- they’re gonna come down here and see and tell you guys how he’s gonna make it better. He’s gonna make it better, and what he’s gonna do, he’s gonna do what he’s been doing for the last four years, nothing but making it worse. There are estimates that 4. Hispanic- owned. Mike Hernandez, Los Angeles City Councilman: You had a mini- mall across the street, that’s been destroyed all around. You have this corner destroyed. So you have three intersections destroyed, and in between the blocks, we have destruction. So it’s going to take major rebuilding. Jackie Judd: (voice- over) A mile from here, and a world away, in the elegant Bonaventure Hotel, Hispanic business leaders gathered to meet Mr. Bush. David Lizarraga, The East L. A. Community Union: I will tell him that here stands before you a product of the Great Society. I was educated as a result of it, and there’s good things that happened through the War on Poverty, things that – some of which continue to be implemented even during his watch.
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