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RE: 1992 insurrection by Los Angeles resident. True.

Maxine Waters.
Waters described the riots as a rebellion, saying, “If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason.”
In her view, the violence was “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice.”

The California Democratic representative has a history of defending violence.
In 1992 she called the LA Riots a ‘rebellion’ and said she wouldn’t ‘tell people to go inside, to be peaceful, that they have to accept the verdict’

Maxine Waters: L.A. Riots Were an ‘Insurrection,’ ‘Defining Moment’ in Black Resistance
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) spoke to the Huffington Post on Thursday and fondly remembered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, insisting they were actually an “insurrection.”
More than 50 people were killed during the riots, with thousands more injured and over $1 billion in property damage. But Waters told the Huffington Post that the L.A. riots were “a milestone in the history of black people demanding justice.”

“These were people who had been basically forgotten,” Waters said. “And because of Rodney King’s beating and the current emotion that was stirring in that, it was like people were saying, ‘We’re here. You can’t do this to us. Look what you’re doing, look how you’ve been.’”

“So it was a defining moment in this country and I think a defining moment in the way that black people resisted,” she continued.

Waters’ history of calling the riots an “insurrection” dates back to the riots themselves.

“What I tried to do was take it out of the discussion of ‘these are just no good, crazy rioting people’ and to talk about what I call an insurrection, which made a lot of white people mad,” she recalled.

In one famous incident of “insurrection” broadcast across the county, four men dragged truck driver Reginald Denny out of his cab and beat him within an inch of his life.

Did Maxine Waters ‘Condone’ Violence, Looting During 1992 LA Riots?
The long-serving congresswoman’s comments were taken out of
context.
By Bethania Palma on Snopes website.

ME:
How about the “context” of her being a low IQ riot inciting danger to the country? Hmmmm?