Media coverage ignores the facts of how African Americans were feared in their lives because the LAPD always targets them. That is until a young man named Rodney King, brutally beaten to death by the LAPD, sparked outrage in the African-American community. This led to the Los Angeles riot of 1992. Media coverage was characterized by two main frames, or themes; the riots were portrayed as a confrontation between blacks and whites, and media coverage emphasized law enforcement and thus downplayed underlying causes such as poverty, racism, and unemployment. News from Los Angeles stations focused only on discrete episodes of violence and the restoration of law and order. The media's portrayal of African Americans during the Los Angeles riots encouraged the perception that the black community was responsible for the riots. Of those arrested, only 40% were black and of those arrested, while the remaining 60% of rioters and looters were white and Latino. Yet the media failed to report this underlying fact. The media portrayal of this event as well as other race riots has once again inflicted negative accusations and contempt on black consciousness. The media also refused to investigate the underlying cause of the protest, preferring instead to portray African American men as criminals, looters, and simply illegals. The factors underlying these problems have never been studied or explained in previous articles. Meanwhile, the news media only presents these images because they know it will influence the audience, so they distort the truth and the integrity of journalism just to get a little more attention.