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Rodney King poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on April 13, 2012. The acquittal of four police officers after the videotaped beating of Mr. King sparked rioting that spread across the city and into neighboring suburbs for three days. Before order was restored, 55 people were dead, 2,300 injured, and more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Matt Sayles/AP
A woman walks past an empty lot on Vermont Avenue between 85th Street and Manchester Avenue in South Central Los Angeles, April 17, 2012. Several large stores once occupied the lot that was looted and set afire during the riots of 1992. Chris Pizzello/AP
Smoke rises from the Koreatown section of Los Angeles on May 1, 1992, on the third day of the Los Angeles riots (top photo). The other photo shows same view of Vermont Avenue it appears almost 20 years later, on April 27, 2012. Hyungwon Kang/Los Angeles Times/Reuters/File (top), and Hyungwon Kang/Reuters (bottom)
A 4/29 Los Angeles Riots commemorative mug is pictured April 25 at the Los Angeles Police Department's newest Olympic Station in the Koreatown section of the city. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
LAPD Olympic Station in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Some argue that the neighborhood still lacks the development that would bring jobs and infrastructure. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
Heidi Stoecklein, LAPD acting senior lead officer, examines gang tattoos. Since the LAPD's Olympic Station opened in January 2009, covering 6.2 square miles of Koreatown, the area has seen a significant drop in crime. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
LAPD Officer Julian French (r.) inspects a Sterling handgun turned in by Koreatown businessman Hong Seok Oh, who bought the handgun some 20 years ago but has decided he doesn't need it anymore. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
K.W. Lee, former editor of the Korea Times English Edition, shows the Feb. 24, 1992, edition of the newspaper. The paper published the LAPD's 1991 crime reports for the Koreatown district two months before the riots erupted. A total of 2,280 stores owned by Korean Americans were either burned or looted. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
A corner shopping center burns out of control in Koreatown on May 1, 1992, during the third day of the Los Angeles riots sparked by the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King beating. April 29, 2012, marks the 20th anniversary of the violence. Hyungwon Kang/Los Angeles Times//Reuters/File
Police stand over a group of handcuffed looting suspects in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992, as rioting continued throughout the area. The worst riots in modern US history began when police were faced down by a crowd angered by the acquittals of four white officers accused in the beating of black motorist Rodney King. Nick Ut/AP
People calling for peace march during the Los Angeles riots in Koreatown on May 2, 1992. Hyungwon Kang/Los Angeles Times//Reuters/File
On May 1,1992, Rodney King (r.) makes his first statement pleading for an end to the rioting in South Central Los Angeles. At left is Mr. King's attorney, Steven Lerman. David Longstreath/AP/File
Los Angeles Police Sgt. Stacy Koon (c.) and Officer Timothy Wind (r.) listen to court proceedings March 22, 1991, during an arraignment in connection with the police beating of motorist Rodney King. Lee Celano/Reuters/File
This frame is from a videotape shot March 31, 1991, by George Holliday from his apartment in a suburb of Los Angeles. It shows what appears to be a group of police officers beating a man with nightsticks and kicking him, as other officers look on. The April 29, 1992 acquittal of four police officers in the beating sparked the L.A. riots. George Holliday/Courtesy of KTLA Los Angeles/AP/File
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On Friday, France became the fourteenth country to legalize same-sex marriage. A campaign promise by French President Francois Hollande, the bill was hotly contested by conservatives in France.
French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the fourteenth country to legalize gay weddings.
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