A Los Angeles Police officer holds a shotgun on two looting suspects as a California State Police officer puts handcuffs on them near Martin Luther King Blvd. and Vermont Ave. in South Central Los Angeles, in this file photo taken May 1, 1992. On April 29, 1992, four white police officers were declared innocent in the beating of black motorist Rodney King, and Los Angeles erupted in the deadliest riots of the century. Three days later, 55 people were dead and more than 2,000 injured. Fires and lootinghad destroyed $1 billion worth of property. (AP Photo/John Gaps III)