What started as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into violence and six days of civil unrest known as the Watts Riots ...

The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the ...

The lie of “justified” violence Los Angeles has a shameful history of violent and destructive riots — Watts in 1965, the Rodney King riots in 1992, the George Floyd riots in 2020.

Why LA’s ICE riots reveal decades of California’s political decay By Susan Shelley Published June 14, 2025, 11:00 a.m. ET ...