After watching this it was hard to believe that this ACTUALLY happened. This was in the United States! With today's current political and racial climate it seems like all the old problems are as big as ever. Sooner or later something has to give.

National Geographic never seems to dissapoint in their movies. I enjoyed watching this, it was quickly paced and very informative. As someone who grew up and watched this happening on TV it didn't bother me how it was all shot and seemed to be view on a VCR.

Would totally recommend this movie for anyone who loves National Geographic or wants to learn more about the LA riots.

LA 92 is the closest I'll ever get to being glued to the TV as the L. A. riots occurred in real time. It's that good.

Contained herein is a fascinating collection of archive footage; the local news and citizen on-the-ground material is utterly captivating. I wasn't old enough to absorb the full scope of the riots back then, so I'll happily admit that a great deal of what happened was news to me as this film unfolded; and what this documentary does (masterfully) is chart the course of how things got to this point. All of this didn't happen because of Rodney King; it was a series of murders, unrest and misdeeds that forced this community to its breaking point. From the behavior of the police to the utter failure of the court system, this was inevitable.

What's really hard to stomach isn't the violence, the cruelty, or even the community's self-destruction; it's that this is a pattern (an argument that the filmmakers lay out all too well). What happened in Watts happened in South Central, and it happened *again* after George Floyd's murder. We are doomed to repeat this, and I can't imagine a situation more infuriating.

The documentary boasts that it has material in it that was not released or seen by the public before. Since I did not know all the details anyway, but just had a sense of what had happened, I can't verify that. But whatever the case, that should not matter. What we do see is horrific. Be it the beating (and let me stress that out, very excecssive and very unnecessary at that) or the fallout of a very strange verdict, that really was not justice.

The movie itself does not comment on many things directly, it lets the people who were affected speak and lets the viewer decide what he or she makes of it. It is not easy viewing and there are certain things that I didn't know happened, things that in the overall scheme of things might not have been noticed by many. Like another case of injustice around that time. Like what the riots meant and who they affected - especially concerning the American Korean community.

If you can stomache this, it is exhilareting but also a history lesson of some sorts ... if you are into something like that