The spark that ignited the riots 25 years ago in Los Angeles was an incident of police brutality against an African American man named Rodney King. And African Americans were the most visible faces in the violence that ensued. However, although it is widely seen as a Black event, Latinos paid the highest price for the rioting in South-Central LA, according to prominent scholar David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for Latino Health and Culture at UCLA’s Faculty of Medicine. He shares with us this little-known story of social injustice.
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