Reginald Denny was [b][color:#3333FF]fighting for his life,[/color][/b] and the L.A. Koreans looked like some bad MOFO's. That's about all I can instantly remember

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.

Where were you?

I was about ten miles north in Studio City.

Interesting times.

L.W.

On South Main in Gardena, trying not to go check on a crew at Chevron.

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.

That's exzackry how one should handle those threats.

White "sweat bands" for a uniform?

And cigarettes too.


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

Aboard the USGCC Escape. Just finished REFTRA in Little Creek, sailing back to Charleston. Seems like a long time ago, but it went quick!

Probably fishing or varmint shooting! I was still working, I don,t think we had a tv then..

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.

Regards, Guy

thank you GuyM, i was outside the GM plant in Southgate, praying for deliverance.

It seems to be a common theme that no one is still around those parts.

My wife and I left in Nov., 1997. We've never regretted it.

L.W.

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!

I remember that lame ass curfew. We left in '94.

Working for TXDOT in Dallas/Mesquite. Living and commuting from Sulpher Springs.

I believe the black county commissioner John Wylie Price was calling for a similar riot in Dallas.

My buddy called me a joked we needed to get our deer rifles and "get some freebies!" if they did it.

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.

Worth a watch if you can catch it.

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.

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,

"Another unsolved gang murder."

Those Koreans didn't play. They knew how to deal with rioters.

Shoot the MF's. They won't come back.

I was having a spirited discussion with a fella who did not support 2A.
He had somehow asserted that citizens never defended their own properties with firearms and I used the Koreans in the LA riots as one example.
He had no knowledge of that and denied it ever happened.

Like now I lived in rural southern Kansas. I had fewer guns, but I've owned an AR almost continuously since ten years prior to that riot. I probably owned a Colt SP-1 back then with several milsurp 30 rd. mags. I always tried to keep 1,000 rds minimum. Probably had a Ruger P-89 ready to rock and roll. I watched the events on the TV with interest. Got three channels out of Tulsa, on good days.

I was working about 7 miles south west, alternating between job sites in Hawthorne & El Segundo.

They didn't release us early, as nobody in authority seemed to understand what was happening or didn't want to be perceived as overreacting.

My drive past burning buildings was interesting, a Colt Commander & just 1 spare mag suddenly wasn't as comforting as it normally would be in a civilian setting ....

Valley Cottage NY ,working for a retailer in NJ 'nobody beats the wiz' . very poor policing , the LAPD predicted the riot will start at a liquor store but did nothing.


P.

The Koreans WERE bad mofo's. They shot first and didn't ask questions where their property was concerned. Good lesson, but that was 25 years ago and they were Koreans, not caucasians.

Another thing about those Koreans, I'm sure some of them were kids during the war, and have no hesitation to pull the trigger. Rioting is nothing compared to full communist invasion of your land.

They weren't the only ones.

You just didn't hear about it.

L.W.