^* The 1992 riots in Los Angeles provided a perfect example. The Left did not blame the arson or the beatings and shootings of innocent non-blacks, especially Korean-Americans, on the blacks who committed these acts. They blamed white America and the allegedly racist police brutality they contended occurred during the arrest of a black man named Rodney King. The liberal news media were largely responsible for creating the frenzy, indeed the hysteria, in America, and especially in black America, that led to those riots. For weeks, national and local news shows repeatedly televised a tiny segment of a video showing white police officers beating a black man identified only as “a black motorist.” The “black motorist” was in fact a convicted criminal who was finally caught by police after a long car chase at high speeds through residential neighborhoods. One part of the video never shown on American television showed King refusing police orders to exit his car or to lie down to be frisked. The members of the jury were among the only Americans to see the entire video, which is why they acquitted the police officers. And that acquittal was the ostensible reason for the riots, fires, beatings, and murders.