The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history LOS ANGELES
(AP) — Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it
happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it.
It was a day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest,
most destructive race riots in the nation's history, and one in
which Watson's spur-of-the-moment decision to take part made him
one of the enduring faces of the violence. He was at home that
day like thousands of others when he heard the news that was
racing across Los Angeles: A jury with no black members had
acquitted four police officers in the videotaped beating of
Rodney King, a black man stopped for speeding nearly 14 months
before. "I got caught up in the emotions like everyone else,"
Watson says 20 years after a riot that would leave 55 people
dead, more than 2,300 injured and himself forever recognized as
one of the attackers of white truck driver Reginald Denny, who
himself became the enduring image of the innocents victimized
during the chaos. South Lo