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Thanks for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

This week we've been looking back through our archives to bring you first-hand accounts

of key moments in Black American history. In May 1992 the city of Los Angeles

was engulfed by riots. Many of the people on the streets were protesting after police

officers accused of assaulting a black motorist called

Rodney King were acquitted. In 2012 Nina Robinson spoke to Rodney King

about the beating and the unrest and violence that followed.

It's May 1992 and people from the mostly black poor neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles

are so angry that they're out on the streets rioting.

A lot of trouble, a lot of trouble.

These people are angry.

They have every right to be.

And there's one man's name on everyone's lips.

That is exactly what Rodney King got. My name is Ronnie King and I was I was 24 years old when I got brutally beaten

savagely beaten by the police,

LAPD in 1991.

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