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The Los Angeles Times building
was among several downtown
.structures damaged by rampaging
vandals Wednesday night, several
,hours after verdicts in the King .
case. .
Most ·employees on t~e ground
level of the historic structure at 1st
and Spring streets had gone home
·_by the time of the 9 p.m. attack.
i.~o employees were evacuated
r;from the first floor., but dozens of
reporters and editors continued to
1 .work in the.third-floor newsroo:rp.
! .No one was injured.
Executive Editor Shelby Coffey
rIll estimated that damage to the.
· building would run into the tens of
lice -there, the crowd surged·
through downtown, smashing windows,
setting trees afire and uprooting
newsstands. · .
In front of ·the Times, .several
young men threw newsstands into ·
plate-glass windows, shattering 17
-in all. The missiles .. left broken
glass and equipment around .the
offices of the Los Angeles Times
Magazine, .which occupies much of
the first floor. ·
The mob then ransacked the
·, offices of ·Tinies .Special Events,
which organizes promotional and
charitable events for the newspa- ·
;, thousands of doll;:trs.
!' The vandals were part of a
··~rowd of about 200 that had first
:formed in front of. Parker Center,
[ the police headquarters, two blocks
;1way. After being repelled by poper.
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The crowd left the Times build-
. ing within 10 minutes and went on
to vandalize other downtown
buildings. But marauders returned
an hour later and pelted window~
with more deb'ris.
-JAMES RAINEY
•(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
Date:
LOS ANGELES TIMES
LOS ANGELES, CA
1HURS. , 4/30/92
Edition: FRONT SECTION'· . PAGE 21
Title: VANDALS SMASH GLASS, RANSACK
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