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In the foreground of this color photograph is a white man with shortish hair looking out across the streets towards a row stores. One of them, middle-right of frame, has billowing dark, grey and black smoke coming from it. Directly in front of the building is a crowd of people highlighted by their bright-white tank tops.

A shop burns during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots following the brutal beating of Rodney King by officers with the Los Angeles Police Department. [Wikimedia Commons]

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