Rivera and classmates at Emerson (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the original image.)Rivera now
KCRW listener Adriana Rivera says she was in the eighth grade when the riots broke out. Her local neighborhood store had been looting and she went down to check it out. She recalls the confusion, the mayhem and the fires.
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