All Involved: Day Two

Ryan Gattis

• Publisher: Ecco
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9780062418890
• Subtopic: Literature General

At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores.

A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itself—laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• The Facts
• DAY 2
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary
• Citations
• About the Author
• Podcast
• Read More
• Also by Ryan Gattis
• Credits
• Copyright
• About the Publisher