Aftershocks from the 1992 Los Angeles riots, with 63 dead, more than 12,000 arrested and $1 billion in property damage, still resonate today. Six days of violent civil disturbance was sparked by the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Black citizen Rodney King the year before. Because that incident had been captured on videotape, the outrage over the cops’ release was explosive.
At Tampa’s Jobsite Theater, actress Andresia Moseley is heading onstage this week in a unique one-woman performance capturing the mood – the tension, the outrage, the occasionally cockeyed sociological philosophy – of the King beating, the police acquittal, and the subsequent violence.
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