Rodney King race riots: then and now

A Trak Auto shop burns on Washington Blvd, Los Angeles on 30 April 1992. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

Twenty years later, a Fish 2Go restaurant sits at the site on Washington Blvd and Norton Avenue. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

A street in south central Los Angeles smoulders after the riots in April 1992. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

A skateboarder rides on the pavement on Adams Blvd near Crenshaw Avenue in 2012. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

Smoke biollows out of a building at Union and 7th Street in downtown LA on 29 April 1992. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

The same building in the Pico/Union area in April 2012. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

This picture of the Pico/Union area of Los Angeles, taken on 29 April 1992, shows the devastation the area suffered. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

The same site on Olympic Blvd, near Albany, is home to a new school in 2012. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis