Rage management a booming business in angry LA

Los Angeles

BERNARD Minor spent 26 years behind bars for murdering a drug dealer who owed him US$400. Now, the ex-con spends his days teaching others to keep their rage in check, one of the swelling ranks of America's anger therapists.

"I was a very angry person," the 58-year-old said. "I'd been living a violent life. Living in the streets since I was 11 years old. Now I want to help people." Mr Minor specialises in tackling domestic abuse - working with "batterers", in his own words - in Los Angeles, a city seen by many as a hotbed of short-fused behaviour and where the rage management industry is booming.