Ted Soqui, a local photographer, shot the riots and their aftermath. Twenty years later, he returned to some of the same scenes.
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In this photo, taken on April 29, rioters overturned a parking attendant booth near Parker Center, then the headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Public art has replaced the parking attendant booth. The old lot is now home to the LAPD's Metropolitan Detention Center.
A burning building on 7th Ave at Union St. near downtown Los Angeles, on April 30, 1992.
The building in 2012.
Police officers in front of Parker Center, the headquarters of the LAPD at the time, on the first night of the riots.
The now empty Parker Center in 2012. The LAPD has since relocated its headquarters to a new facility nearby.
A looted Circuit City electronics store at La Brea Ave. and Sunset Boulevard in early May 1992.
The building is now home to a Ross clothing store.
A torched mini-mall at Western Ave. and 6th Street in Los Angeles's Koreatown neighborhood, in May 1992.
The rebuilt mini-mall at Western Ave. and 6th Street.
A looted shopping mall burned on April 30, 1992, in the Mid-City district of Los Angeles.
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The site is now home to a new shopping center and Lowe's home-improvement store.
The charred remains of an apartment building at Olympic Blvd at Albany St., with the downtown skyline in the background, in May 1992.
A school now sits at the site of the apartment building.
A Trak Auto store at Washington Blvd. near Norton Ave. was burned and looted on April 30, 1992.
A Fish 2Go restaurant now occupies the site.
A woman with her children walked past several burnt businesses on South Vermont Ave. in South Central Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The same stretch of South Vermont Ave. today in South Los Angeles. The district dropped Central from its name in 2003.
A torched stretch of Adams Blvd. near Crenshaw Ave. on April 30, 1992.
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The same stretch of Adams Blvd. in 2012.
