I remember watching this in the college dorm room, live as it happened. Being a Rube from small town America, I had never seen some good old fashioned rioting/looting, or anything like it.
Sitting at a bar in the St. Louis airport waiting to board a flight to Oklahoma City to attend a banking school at the Univ of Oklahoma. My first time seeing rioting as well. I remember well the Korean grocers protecting their property from the marauding bands of savages.
Agreed, we need more storeowners in every city protecting their investments that way.
Also, a few good '06 rounds coming out of the good citizens' windows might put a dent in driveby cars and the occupants, no?
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Within a few days of 25 years ago, I was in Compton, with the 1st Marine Regiment. Giving the cops a badly needed break, and detaining lots of rioters.
A lot of people have forgotten that active duty Marine and Army units were deployed to Los Angeles to quell those riots. It worked. One rifle company used 140 sets of flex cuffs the first night... Good/bad memories.
thank you GuyM, i was outside the GM plant in Southgate, praying for deliverance.
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
When this was going on I was forty eight years old thanking the Lord I had gotten out of the Army twenty five years previous to this rioting. My, how time does fly!
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
Watched the 2hr National Geographic documentary "LA 92" last night. Had Tons of footage I had never seen before. Covers everything from the initial Rodney Kind incident, thru the trial to the riots.
It covered the shooting of a 15 year old girl that happened right before the Rodney King incident that was a catalyst for the anger over R. King. I hadn't seen the story of the girl before.
thank you GuyM, i was outside the GM plant in Southgate, praying for deliverance.
Damn deerstalker, you were close! I lived in Downey at that time. Those rioting pricks didn't make it over there, but, they wanted to. Those Korean's kept those lowlife's at bay. Crappy time.
Had to make a delivery in Montebello, picked up in Oxnard. Worried my little 22 year old Pa hillbilly ass to death. Not familiar with the area and did not know good areas from bad untill I was in them. A road tractor with a 53 foot trailer is not very agile on city streets, road block, or just parked cars and your asss is in trouble.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
I was at Fort Benning, GA, watching in sad disbelief. Many years later I became a Police Officer. I had a Sergeant who atended some training with some LA County Homicide Detectives, who procesed the Korea Town homicides. Their story went something like this:
The Detectives looked hard a the site of the slain rioter. By checking everything from blood splatter and bullet pock marks in surrounding wall, they determined that the rounds came from the building owned by Mr. Park. The Detectives went to Mr. Parks's store and asked him,
"Mr. Park. Did you shoot anybody from the top of your store?"
Mr. Park, nervously shaking his head said vehemently, "NO! NO! I did not shoot anybody!"
The Detectives looked at each other and sadly shook their heads. One said, scribbling a line on the case file,
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