Which was larger the Million Man March or the 1992 Los Angeles Riots?
Here’s a photo of the Million Man March. “Dr. Farouk EL-Baz, director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, today announced the results of the Center’s final analysis of the crowd size present during the “Million Man March” held Monday, October 16, in Washington, DC – 837,000, with a margin of error of plus or minus 20 percent.” http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/rese…rch/index.html Now let’s compare: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0429/p01s07-ussc.html ” … Late in the afternoon of April 29, 1992, a ruddy haze of smog was softly lit from above by cool, fading sunlight. As Mira Jang switched channels on her living-room TV, she realized that the city’s signature layer of stagnant gauze would soon be harshly lit from below by flame. Fires were erupting in neighborhoods throughout the city, and local news was in full panic mode. Roving, van-top “action cams” showed arsonists and demonstrators advancing block by block like urban guerrillas. …
