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An Avalanche in L.A.

Michael O'Keefe

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© Leverett Bradley, 1992/FPG International, NY

MY FRIEND DAN called Thursday morning from Boston and asked if I knew that his son was at USC for the summer. "Worse comes to worst I'll go get him," I said, saying what I thought Dan wanted to hear but not thinking about the consequences.

From the little pocket of hills where I live nothing seemed different this Thursday morning, but a short drive up to Mulholland would clue anyone in to the fact that Los Angeles was on fire and there was no putting it out. The Rodney King verdict had been announced on Wednesday around 4:00 P.M. Two black men that I work with had gone ballistic with a silence that was deafening. Right then I knew that we were gonna get into something but even now I'm not sure what it was.

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