Posted on 07/08/2020 9:54:46 AM PDT by C19fan
As protests erupted in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, some of the demonstrations were led by Asian Americans looking to the past to inform their activism.
The young activists recalled the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, which was sparked after a jury acquitted three Los Angeles police officers of use of excessive force for brutally beating Rodney King and failed to reach a verdict for a fourth officer, as well as the killing of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl who was shot by a Korean convenience store owner who said she stole a bottle of orange juice.
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For your interest.
1992
They talking about the Rodney King riots?
Yes now called the 1992 Uprising by the MSM.
Odd kind of “uprising” that focuses on looting liquor stores big box retailers.
At least this year’s Bolsheviks had the nerve to go after police stations.
I was watching the Anthony Bordain (D-Dead) Show years ago and he went to the Home of a Korean Friend in Los Angeles to have Dinner with his Family.
hey had a Poster of Obama prominently displayed on the Wall. They loved him.
Every “Asian” I know above the age of 35 thinks BLM is a dangerous rabble and communist organization which reminds them of why they left China or Korea in the first place.
Maybe some of their children have been well-propagandized by the the schools and media to think differently.
Ping.
Ugh. It wasn’t an uprising - they didn’t go after actual government entities though they did trash and torch a couple of abandoned cop cars. It was a riot. Literally, it’s not an uprising - check the Oxford English Dictionary.
“”I was afraid to see history repeat itself,” Koreatown organizer Nara Kim said. “I didn’t want to see Korean Americans arm themselves.””
The Koreans I knew from my ‘fun’ on the rooftop never actually disarmed themselves, though they hid their weapons before and after due to the liberal hellhole they lived in.
I also like the passive-aggressive attempt at race warfare and jab at the police in the prior paragraph:
“Some organizers say the Korean community is still holding on to trauma from 1992. Many business owners in Koreatown at the time had to fend for themselves as police protected wealthier neighborhoods during the uprising. Koreatown businesses — most of them owned by Koreans and Latinos — bore the brunt of the damage.”
“Holding on to trauma?” More like “I’ve seen this movie before and this time I’m going to be ready well in advance” because hey, look, the same damn thing happened again. I also take objection to the assertion that police protected wealthier areas - LAPD didn’t defend crap outside government facilities due to orders from the politicians and the ‘wealthier neighborhoods’ were places that were their own incorporated cities and had their own police (Beverly Hills, etc.) that were doing their jobs. That’s not their ‘fault’ at all. I also don’t recall the rioters and looters checking to see who owned the unattended stores before they burgled, looted and torched them.
I’ll also note that I’ve had people here on FR deride the fact that my self-defense preparations are more than a little biased towards the 92 LA Riot scenario. “That will never happen again, a single revolver will be fine, why would you need more?” Well, guess what? -rolls eyes-
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