Los Angeles showed in 1992 how not to respond to today’s uprisings

The lessons of the 1992 riots and their aftermath still resonate. At the end of May 2020 unrest broke out in Minneapolis and cities across the United States, in response to the murder of George Floyd. The events brought memories of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and V.N. Trinh, writing in The Washington Post, analyses the parallels and lessons it holds for today.