CNN commentator Van Jones was a law student at the time of the LA riots 30 years ago. He describes his arrest in San Francisco at the time amid a chaotic protest as a formative experience that profoundly shaped his view of the inequities in our legal system. He explores the legacy of the riots in the CNN documentary, “The Fire Still Burns” on April 29.
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