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re: LA Riots were 30 years ago today, any old timers want to explain what that was like?
Posted on 4/30/22 at 8:24 pm to bosmack337
Posted on 4/30/22 at 8:24 pm to bosmack337
I was actually at the intersection where Reginald Denny was pulled out of that truck just about a week or less prior. A very upscale black community is a few block away, Ladera Heights..
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Posted on 4/30/22 at 8:41 pm to bosmack337
Doesn't happen in NOLA, yet. will be interesting if/when it does.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:00 pm to bosmack337
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30 years ago today, any old timers
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:02 pm to SCLibertarian
On the political side I cannot answer what they thought.
As far as the department.
Everything was planned and they had riot training many times prior to this.
Everyone had their gear, knew what to do, and where to go.
Officers, were moved around to help from other divisions.
Yes, officers were upset.
Some were told to stay at their division and wait.
I was in traffic outside the most affected areas. We covered more in service calls to help other divisions out. At the end of the day LA is a huge city.
As far as the department.
Everything was planned and they had riot training many times prior to this.
Everyone had their gear, knew what to do, and where to go.
Officers, were moved around to help from other divisions.
Yes, officers were upset.
Some were told to stay at their division and wait.
I was in traffic outside the most affected areas. We covered more in service calls to help other divisions out. At the end of the day LA is a huge city.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:19 pm to bosmack337
Watched it at my friends house. Didn't understand why the cops didn't go in there and unleash hell to get things back under control.
Different era.
Different era.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:22 pm to bosmack337
It reminded us of the Harlem riots???
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:29 pm to bosmack337
quote:I was in boot camp down in San Diego. We had no idea that it was going on. Almost completely cutoff from the outside world. I do remember us being told about Sam Kenison being killed in a car wreck.
LA Riots were 30 years ago today, any old timers want to explain what that was like?
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:29 pm to bosmack337
Rooftop Koreans are Bad arse.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:43 pm to Champagne
The Rooftops were basically all old anti-communist S Korean War vets who were killer Wolves in sheeps' clothing.
They had a lot guns, knew how to use them, and had tactical training and lots of combat experience. And being that their community was so tight-knit, it would basically be akin to a bunch of idiot street thugs now targeting and attacking an entire neighborhood of ex-GWOT combat soldiers who all happen to be loaded to the gills with firearms. Meaning... It would not be a very good idea.
What makes it even more moronic, is how brutal S Korean soldiers were during their war fighting days.
They did not have Western military sensibilities and, like the VC in N Vietnam, the Japs in WWII, etc, they gave zero shits about trying to take POWs or following modern Western 'humane' war rules like the Geneva Convention.
There are stories of S Koreans coming to aid the US in Vietnam b/c they felt they owed them a debt for the Korean War. The VC and NVA were terrified of the Koreans..because unlike the Americans, they didn't fall back and didn't take prisoners... They just surrounded and encircled the enemy and moved in until eveyone was dead.
Thats the mindset the LA thugs were up against. Needless to say... It didn't turn out well for them and their goals of destroying Koreatown.
They had a lot guns, knew how to use them, and had tactical training and lots of combat experience. And being that their community was so tight-knit, it would basically be akin to a bunch of idiot street thugs now targeting and attacking an entire neighborhood of ex-GWOT combat soldiers who all happen to be loaded to the gills with firearms. Meaning... It would not be a very good idea.
What makes it even more moronic, is how brutal S Korean soldiers were during their war fighting days.
They did not have Western military sensibilities and, like the VC in N Vietnam, the Japs in WWII, etc, they gave zero shits about trying to take POWs or following modern Western 'humane' war rules like the Geneva Convention.
There are stories of S Koreans coming to aid the US in Vietnam b/c they felt they owed them a debt for the Korean War. The VC and NVA were terrified of the Koreans..because unlike the Americans, they didn't fall back and didn't take prisoners... They just surrounded and encircled the enemy and moved in until eveyone was dead.
Thats the mindset the LA thugs were up against. Needless to say... It didn't turn out well for them and their goals of destroying Koreatown.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:31 pm to bosmack337
It was the event that convinced me that most black people are racist. OJ's trial sealed it.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:47 pm to Bow dude72
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They had 6 cops giving me sobriety tests
I call bullshite. They didn’t have 6 cops back the.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:52 pm to bosmack337
FAF
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:55 pm to ronricks
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Rooftop Koreans are the GOAT
You can bet these people were more racists towards blacks than any other race but built stores in their neighborhoods to get the money
The Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Koreans are all a bunch of racists MF'ers
Posted on 4/30/22 at 11:00 pm to bosmack337
I remember it was around the time the Chronic album came out. There was a lot more shite going on than just an isolated situation involving police and someone ended up dead.
BTW, if I recall it was during an election year.. Which you can look back on presidential years and see what was going on at the time.
But in the 1960s a lot of jobs that built the middle class in L.A. all of a sudden went overseas. There were no more jobs that paid a middle class salary so those areas eventually had a lot of poverty. Police didn't go in those areas as much so it was good areas to bring in crack.
Crack destroyed things. Neighborhood gangs merged until there were two big gangs fighting each other for territory. It became a war zone so the LAPD militarized and all of a sudden they were in these areas. They had tank like vehicles that would used to bust in people's houses, but started hitting the wrong houses and they approached it as if everyone was a crack dealer. That's what lead to NWA and other rappers making songs like frick the police.
Then Rodney King happened and all of a sudden they had what they been talking about on video. And when the cops who were in the video beating King were found innocent it was like a volcano erupting. shite had been building up. The protest started, then people started rioting and business owners protected their businesses the right way. Strapped and ready to shoot any mother fricker who tried to break in.
I see people saying it was George Floyd before George Floyd, but you can't compare the two. George Floyd was manufactured. Not the event itself, but it becoming an international story and protesting, etc was. If that happened during a year it wasn't an election year no one would know who the frick George Floyd was.
But those Koreans didn't frick around. If the same thing happened in California today, you probably wouldn't see people protecting their businesses with guns. Hollywood would be so disturbed that people had the nerve to even think about shooting someone, no matter what they were doing.
BTW, if I recall it was during an election year.. Which you can look back on presidential years and see what was going on at the time.
But in the 1960s a lot of jobs that built the middle class in L.A. all of a sudden went overseas. There were no more jobs that paid a middle class salary so those areas eventually had a lot of poverty. Police didn't go in those areas as much so it was good areas to bring in crack.
Crack destroyed things. Neighborhood gangs merged until there were two big gangs fighting each other for territory. It became a war zone so the LAPD militarized and all of a sudden they were in these areas. They had tank like vehicles that would used to bust in people's houses, but started hitting the wrong houses and they approached it as if everyone was a crack dealer. That's what lead to NWA and other rappers making songs like frick the police.
Then Rodney King happened and all of a sudden they had what they been talking about on video. And when the cops who were in the video beating King were found innocent it was like a volcano erupting. shite had been building up. The protest started, then people started rioting and business owners protected their businesses the right way. Strapped and ready to shoot any mother fricker who tried to break in.
I see people saying it was George Floyd before George Floyd, but you can't compare the two. George Floyd was manufactured. Not the event itself, but it becoming an international story and protesting, etc was. If that happened during a year it wasn't an election year no one would know who the frick George Floyd was.
But those Koreans didn't frick around. If the same thing happened in California today, you probably wouldn't see people protecting their businesses with guns. Hollywood would be so disturbed that people had the nerve to even think about shooting someone, no matter what they were doing.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 11:28 pm to OweO
The same thing did happen in LA less than two damn years ago, ya dummy. Tens of millions of dollars in damage was done, businesses were looted and burned, people were killed.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 11:52 am to Jack Ruby
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There are stories of S Koreans coming to aid the US in Vietnam b/c they felt they owed them a debt for the Korean War. The VC and NVA were terrified of the Koreans..because unlike the Americans, they didn't fall back and didn't take prisoners... They just surrounded and encircled the enemy and moved in until eveyone was dead.
A guy I worked with was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He said the US captured two Viet Cong guys and tried to interrogate them, but they wouldn't talk. An SKor officer asked to let him try and requisitioned a helicopter. Told him to take it up about 5000 feet. Then he threw one of the Viet Cong out, and asked the other one if he was ready to talk. He was.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:21 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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doing flight instructing out of John Wayne International as I was getting out of the Marines
This was when I was going through PLC in the Marines but several of my buddies that went Enlisted after high school (we graduated in 1990) were at Pendleton and they told me they activated several units for the riots to patrol South Central LA.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:26 pm to bosmack337
Gang bangers were firing on fire fighters. Let their neighborhoods burn.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:27 pm to MWP
There was a line of LAVs lined up on the highway out of Pendleton locked and loaded, ready to go.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:41 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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line of LAVs lined up on the highway out of Pendleton locked and loaded, ready to go
I remember thinking how many of those Marines just got back from Desert Storm where they got to see no action and here we are about to turn those devils loose in Compton.
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