After LAPD officers Laurence Powell, Theodor Briseno, and Timoty Wind, supervised Sgt. Stacey Koon, were found "not guilty" of beating citizen King, the Los Angeles riots erupted. Why did the riots occur? The rebellion was an outcome of the fiscal and social troubles which conffroting America's city and now. To understand riots, one must understand the causes of social rage, ussually said to be racism, poverty, lack of economic opportunity, and why people who experience …showed first 75 words of 1197 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1197 total…Second, these city-based firms and industries spin off jobs that are located in the suburbs, but depend on the central cityfor their sustenance. Third,cities remain the hub of the metropolitan region's civic life, where the major cultural, educational, medical, governmental, and other institutions are located. Bibliography Work Cited Dreir, Peter The struggle for our cities PN'96:National urban policy/ 3/4/00 Haddock,David, Polsby, Daniel Understanding riots Mashane,Clay BIB-ESSAY:American cities and suburbs H-Urban mail/