With Los Angeles stricken by coronavirus, the anniversary of the 1992 riots brings back bad memories for Hondo and his father.
Tropes
- Armor-Piercing Question: Hondo's father challenges him to say what exactly has changed in the relationship between Los Angeles' African-American community and the L.A.P.D. Hondo can't answer.
- Badass Bystander: A seventeen year old Hondo intervenes to save a random bystander from being beaten to death during the Rodney King riots.
- Oh, Crap!: Hondo and his father while driving through South L.A. see the announcement of the acquittal of the officers in the Rodney King trial on a TV in a store, and a Powder Keg Crowd watching quickly turns violent.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Back in 1992, Hondo's father was less than impressed when he discovered his son had backed out of his college football scholarship and had enlisted in the Marines instead.
