The four police officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force by a police officer. The trial was held in a predominately white suburb of Los Angeles because the defense attorneys argued that the police officers would not be able to get a fair trial because of the publicity. The four men were all acquitted by an almost entirely white jury. This resulted in the L.A. riots of 1992. These riots
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The movie “Volcano” was about an active volcano forming into the city of Los Angeles‚ California. The evaporating of harmful gases‚ earthquakes‚ and some evidences from the manhole are the manifestations showed that an underground volcano was forming under the city. This means that there was already lava under the city and the ground cannot take the pressure anymore so it formed a volcano. The physical changes in the movie are the breaking of glasses from buildings‚ breaking of buildings
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descent‚ membership has opened to other backgrounds‚ including Central American‚ African American‚ Middle Eastern‚ Asian‚ Caucasian‚ and Native American.” This causes the growth of the 18th street gang to grow and expand larger into the city of Los Angeles. The start of the 18th Street gang was created by the rejection of youth locals who were trying to join the Clanton Street gang. At the time there was so many undocumented immigrants and mixed-race entering the State causing Clanton Street to
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Chapter Two: Literature Review Thai Migration to Los Angeles The unprecedented increase in the number of Asians leaving their country to take up residence in the United States over the past decade has widely publicized by the media and intensively studied by social scientists. The simultaneous qualitative shift in the geographical origin of these new residents‚ however‚ has attracted less attention. Reinforcing the long-establish and well-documented migration streams from the Philippines‚
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Since the late 1960’s‚ the “Crips” have been synonymous with gang violence and crime. Despite being started as an organization utilized to defend itself and its’ neighborhood from other violent gangs‚ the “Crips” have evolved into a fierce organization that draws its’ standing from murder‚ drugs and a bountiful number of active members. It is a prime example of how an organization could allegedly start as something positive for a community and eventually devolve into one of the most feared criminal
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crime wave in the Cook County Urban Community. Certainly‚ youth isn’t supposed to be experiencing how to become successful criminals. Yet‚ a west side Chicago‚ youth faced an uncertain future one’s approach with gang member in the community. Cook County‚ “is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the second-most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County‚ California.”(Wikipedia‚ as of 2015). However‚ 1247 S Spaulding‚ Chicago‚ Illinois Cook County‚ is this old stone 1930
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living in Los Angeles in the past was not a good idea‚ because many parts of the city were not safe. Moreover‚ people who have businesses were afraid from gangsters who ask them for money every month. Furthermore‚ they gave them money in order to not broke down their store‚ and gangs were having conflicts which turn into fights between several associations‚ However‚ gentrification has improved the city of Angeles nowadays. There are safe areas in Los Angeles which were not secure in the past like
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May 4‚ 2007 18th Street Gang The 18th Street Gang is one of the biggest gangs in Los Angeles County. There membership has been estimated to be around 20‚000. Most members in this gang are Mexican and Chicano but they are one of the few gangs that have broken racial boundaries. They allow almost any race to join the gang. (Delaney‚ 2006) Because of their openness to other races the gang membership grew rapidly. An estimated 60% of the gang is made up of illegal immigrants. ("18th Street Gang"
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setting for most disaster movies. Through decades of disaster films‚ Los Angeles has been targeted by aliens‚ toppled by temblors‚ sunken by tsunamis‚ leveled by lava‚ and a rogue tornado once took out the Hollywood sign. Even though in real life los angels is not such a disastrous it nonetheless faces constant destruction in movies‚ on television‚ and in books; in the collective imagination‚ the city burns and burns. Los angels is used as a setting for most disastrous movies because the city
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The Life and Death of Pimp C Chad Lamont Butler was born on December 29th‚ 1973 in Port Arthur‚ Texas. He is better known by his stage name Pimp C and one of the two founding members of the rap duo Underground Kings also known as UGK. Over the course of his twenty-year career in the music industry he became known for his love of selling and using drugs‚ along with his desire to pimp women which all can be heard in the lyrics of his music. Naturally‚ living such a demoralized lifestyle it caused him
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