And then it’s over, and I’m alone, and there is nothing but the television squawking and a lone siren. Then it’s just me and Bizarro L.A. and Patty Severinsen-Wood—the eleven o’clock news anchor—who apparently hasn’t gotten the memo.
“It is, ah, now eleven o’clock and, ah, tonight a community is venting its fury over the verdicts in the Troy Harper beating trial. Fires are raging in South Central Los Angeles at this hour—a testament to the anger and frustration felt by many of its residents. It began just a few hours after the verdicts were announced, with people looting stores and setting them on fire, but quickly escalated to assaults and beatings; four drivers, at least, pulled from their vehicles and attacked. Chaos also erupted at the downtown Parker Center, L.A.’s police headquarter
