Three decades after the riots, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti urged a group gathered at a Wilshire Boulevard hotel in Koreatown 'to build a city of belonging.'
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti watched the 1992 L.A. riots from his New York college dorm room, having left the city one day before the violence.
“No matter where we come from, where our parents come from, what language we speak, what we look like or who we are, we belong here,” Garcetti told the crowd of young professionals gathered for a conference focused on the anniversary of the riots and Korean American achievements. The mayor also talked of the “common work” completed after the riots, such as creating parks, but also theLos Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti gives his annual State of the City speech in Los Angeles in April of 2020.
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