In April of 1992 a jury in LA comes together to declare a mainly non-guilty verdict on all charges against the police officer that beat Rodney King. In what begins as a peaceful rally against this verdict turns into a three day long riot in the streets of LA. A few years later a woman named Anna Deavere Smith, in an attempt to creatively document these riots publishes a book entitled Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, full of …showed first 75 words of 1536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1536 total…order she placed them in one can easily gather an idea of what things led to the next, which people were affecting which and how things managed to get so out of control. Smith neatly places these stories from all different sorts of people in an order that makes it easy to gain an understanding as to how things took place and something so seemingly terrible can have such a clear beginning middle and end.