News coverage ignores the facts about how African Americans were feared in their lives because the LAPD always targets them. That was until a young man named Rodney King, brutally beaten to death by the Los Angeles police, sparked outrage in the African-American community. This led to the Los Angeles riots in 1992. News coverage was characterized by two main frames, or themes; the riots were portrayed as a clash between blacks and whites, and coverage emphasized law enforcement and thus downplayed underlying causes such as poverty, racism, and unemployment. The Los Angeles station's news coverage focused only on discrete incidents 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 did not report this underlying fact. The media portrayal of this event, along with other race riots, has once again inflicted negative accusations and contempt on black consciousness. The news media also refused to research the underlying cause of the protest, instead choosing only to portray African American males as criminals, looters, and simply lawless. The factors behind these problems have never been studied or explained in previous stories. These days the media only paints these pictures because they know it will boost ratings, so they distort the truth and integrity of journalism just to bring a few more.