[WLusvardi]

Riots do not occur spontaneously. They are planned. Planned from the top, not from the grass roots. What was the purpose of the riot? To scare white and asian homeowners out of the first concentric rings of neighborhoods around the center of Los Angeles, so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market, Olvera Street, etc). Rodney King was a bigger than life character who didn’t even need to be given a script to play his part in the drama.

[wardaddy]

Two of my closest pals are Angelenos

Film industry conservatives

Los Feliz residents

I go out annually

[ETL]

Riots do not occur spontaneously. They are planned. Planned from the top, not from the grass roots. What was the purpose of the riot? To scare white and asian homeowners out of the first concentric rings of neighborhoods around the center of Los Angeles, so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market, Olvera Street, etc).

"so that migrants could replace them and a cheap labor force could be created for the wholesale markets in the city center (e.g., Produce Market, Flower Market, Furniture Market, Fashion Market, Jewelry Market..."????

Sorry, but if you have no friggin clue what you're talking about it would be best for you not to add anything. Seriously. The riots then as now are all about communist revolution. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Riots do not occur spontaneously. They are planned.***

I remember reading about fifty five years ago that police knew there was going to be a riot in the future because suddenly buckets of rocks would appear on rooftops of local buildings.