Posted on 06/18/2020 12:50:56 PM PDT by ammodotcom
The riots of the spring of 2020 are far from without precedent in the United States. Indeed, they seem to happen once a generation at least. The 1992 Los Angeles Riots are such an example of these “generational riots.” And while most people know about the riots, less known – though quite well known at the time – were the phenomenon of the so-called “Roof Koreans.”
The Roof Koreans were spontaneous self-defense forces organized by the Korean community of Los Angeles, primarily centered in Koreatown, in response to violent and frequently racist attacks on their communities and businesses by primarily black looters and rioters during the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. Despite their best efforts, over 2,200 Korean-owned businesses were looted or burned to the ground during the riots. It is chilling to imagine how many would have suffered the same fate had the Koreans not been armed.
Standing on the rooftops of Koreatown shops they and their families owned, clad not in body armor or tactical gear, but instead dressed like someone’s nerdy dad, often smoking cigarettes, but always on alert, the Roof Koreans provide a stirring example of how free Americans of all races can defend their own communities without relying upon outside help.
Continue reading Roof Koreans: How Civilians Defended Koreatown from Racist Violence During the 1992 LA Riots at Ammo.com.
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And in the 1992 ones the police leadership hardly receive a favorable narrative... the Koreans were left to fend for themselves because the cops only saw it fit to defend white, affluent neighborhoods like Beverly Hills.
I watched those riots and it confirmed my core belief that an armed society is a polite society.
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Those rooftop Koreans represented for me the truest meaning of being an American. You don’t look for government to help, you take care of business and help yourself, your family, your friends.
Last sentencee sez it all,
The Roof Koreans provide a perfect, real-life counter argument to the idiotic question of gun grabbers that free men justify why they “need” certain arms to defend themselves. If ever anyone “needed” a fully automatic rifle with a 100-round magazine, it was the Korean community of Los Angeles.
Libs get to thanks them selves for kissing gun control good by.
After these past few weeks sales are booming
Btw, the Koreans were not the only one's defending their properties due to little or no protection from the cops.
Thousands of people armed up all over the region, they were on their roofs, pouches, at their businesses etc.
Many more people were killed in that LA '92 event than all the riots nationwide in 2020. It was war and I hope to hell I'm never close to anything like that again.
“...in response to violent and frequently racist attacks on their communities and businesses by primarily black looters and rioters...”
Actually, many of the looters were Hispanic, and the Koreans got into gun battles with cars of Latino gangs that attacked them.
The police just sat and watched.
Korean shop owners opening fire on black gangs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py4AMYebHGI
They didn’t take any sh*t.
To this day they don’t know how many rioters/looters were killed. The police didn’t keep track, they just scooped them up after the riots were over and disposed of them. No one took any action against the Koreans.
Understand, virtually all of the Korean men had done two years compulsory military service in the ROK army.
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