Originally Posted by Craig6z
Rather unfortunate story. In 1992 during the LA (Rodney King) Riots they had to run all inbound and outbound traffic over the ocean, day and night.
There had been reports of people shooting at planes coming in over South Central LA (normal landings on Runway 24 and 25).
Wouldnt surprise me that some of the reason was also that the police helicopters were heavily patrolling Inglewood and didn't want to collide with landing planes.