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Gilbert Monterrosa was 15 years old (left, from his high school yearbook in 1992) during the Los Angeles Riots. He and some friends decided to loot a Fedco department store where he found something unexpected — Nirvana's album, Nevermind. Courtesy of Gilbert Monterrosa hide caption
'Aggressive Yet Sublime': A Looter, Nirvana And The Los Angeles Riots
Looters load up a car at the Viva shopping center near a billowing fire during the rioting that erupted in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992, after a jury found four Los Angeles Police Department officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. Ron Eisenbeg/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
When LA Erupted In Anger: A Look Back At The Rodney King Riots
Scenes from Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992. ABC Press hide caption
Protesters attend a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 20 in support of a former NYPD Officer Peter Liang. Craig Ruttle/AP hide caption
Protesters hold their hands up as an LAPD officer talks on Aug. 14 in the aftermath of the shooting of a 25-year-old African-American man. The department says confidence in the LAPD has helped head off the kind of unrest seen in Ferguson, Mo., over the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Mark J. Terrill/AP hide caption
After Shooting, LAPD Uses Friendlier Face To Avoid Ferguson's Woes
Rodney King. (April 13, 2012 file photo.) Matt Sayles/AP hide caption