Was the Rodney King beating the only reason for the LA Riots of 1992?
Great question actually. Your suspicions are correct. There was much more going on at the time. During that time the cocaine crack trade had made its way to LA and it was big! In the 80’s Miami was torn down hard for the major cocaine trade they had there. So a lot of import and etc moved to LA. Black youths that lived in poor areas saw an opportunity to get rich. Crack sales started once crack was invented. Crack is actually very cheap and easy to make thus enabling you to turn a kilo of cocaine in to an exponentially larger amount of drugs, charge less, yet make tons more. Kids 12, 13 started selling and getting into gangs in the local area. The Bloods and Crypts (spelling?) started to have major influence in the 80’s after being established in the 70’s. During the 80’s the streets of LA were a war zone. Bloods kill bloods. Crypts kill Bloods, there were no true defined enemies as they begun to all turn on each other. Once the violence spread to middle America after an innocent bysta
