According to history, police brutality as well as discrimination against minorities, has been an underlining reason for riots. ... The L.A. riots were a catastrophic event, the product of conflict between police enforcement; specifically white police enforcement and those of color over the corruption of the judicial system. ... During the time that the L.A. riots took place, Watts was a predominantly a low-income community with a large African-American population, many of whom felt that in addition to high unemployment, poverty and racial discrimination, its residents were regularly on the rec...

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