Posted on 03/19/2021 6:16:23 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
We should all be ready to do our duty as American citizens and, when duty calls, each of us should embrace our inner Rooftop Korean.
The year was 1992, 27 years ago right about now, and the city was Los Angeles. Several police officers who got into a videotaped brawl with a petty criminal named Rodney King were acquitted of beating him up. The city exploded. It was chaos. ---SNIP--- See, the dirty little secret of civilization is that it’s designed to maintain order when 99.9% of folks are orderly. But, say, if just 2% of folks stop playing by the rules…uh oh
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I may have aided keeping guard atop one of those roof. God bless the rooftop Koreans.My heroes.
So awesome!
The leftist are in full control currently, but it won’t always be that way. Until the pendulum swings, we have a right to protect ourselves from these lawless people.
I am a proud Texan, white, Southern, Christian, heterosexual male and I’ll make zero apologies.
I will not be shamed or condemned for my beliefs. I am a free man and will say what I think and do what I please.
Oh...and White lives matter as well.
Have we already forgotten that the video shown by the media was heavily edited to make the police look bad?
And after he finishes his smoke he will help you with your calculus homework.
Post of the week!
Ping.
I was there. The editing was *not* needed to make the police look bad.
They may be cool looking, but the TEC-9 and AP-9 were not very good.
Let me put it to you another way. The police leadership (specifically, the assistant chief as Chief Gates was out of town at a conference) started looking bad when they told officers waiting to go and quell the riots just starting at Florence and Normandy to back off and leave the area. It went downhill from there.
It got worse when the next night, I was looking over rifle sights at riotous looters from a rooftop as a kid who hadn’t seen his 15th birthday yet. And got told the cops weren’t coming.
It continued to get worse until they *finally* issued the Guard (who, after arriving, we saw more of than the cops) some ammo and they started shooting people running the blockades/trying to run over guardsmen. Cops generally not around to be seen even then.
The near final insult to injury was in the days after the riot was put down when the LAPD and LASD went door to door in an attempt to find and collect the ‘illegal’ weapons (Roberti-Roos made many of the weapons used for defense highly illegal in CA) that the cops had carefully noted being used in media coverage. The officers were often apologetic, but they still came to search for the weapons. Fortunately, most of the weapons had ‘been lost in the chaos’ so they were not there to be confiscated and the owners taken to jail for possession.
The final insult to injury is that CA has sporadically *still* been looking to prosecute Rooftop Koreans and anyone else that defended life and property during the riots. Not for fresh offenses, but for actions during the 1992 Riots.
How, exactly, would media editing of video at the time make the cops look worse than they already did without video?
Thanks for the ping. Apparently at least one person in the thread thinks that the media were the only ones making the cops look bad there; cops, due to their poor leadership, did a fine job of that all on their own.
No, I don’t have a problem with most individual officers from that era; it wasn’t really their fault - but their feckless assistant chief and then the LA city political leadership caused the situation to spiral out of control and held the officers back.
I see that I failed to write clearly. I apologize.
I meant to say that the first video, that which purported to show the beating of Rodney King, had been edited.
The media looped it to make it appear that the police had struck King again and again during a long beating. They created an entirely false impression of events.
Eh... actually, the cops at the time would beat anyone that ran. We all knew that as kids - it wasn’t right, but it was understandable given the state of the California justice system with its many revolving doors. You might want to go look at the hospital report from King’s treatment. He was actually beaten more than just a few times - Chief Darryl Gates himself publicly stated that King was hit with between fifty three and fifty six full power baton strikes. Even for LAPD at the time that was an extended period of time and far more strikes than usual. Usual was 10-20 at most, IIRC. He was also struck about the face and head a number of times, which was a biiiig no-no for LAPD at the time.
I will also clarify that I am not black, and that the LAPD of the day would administer beatings to males of all races equally if they ran. White, black, Hispanic, Asian, didn’t matter - you ran and got caught, you were *very* likely to make the acquaintance of police batons.
“Chief Darryl Gates”
Not a man whose word I would accept without independent corroboration.
His count was, if anything, *low* per the medical reports and photo evidence. Independent corroboration was duly provided in the trials and in the press of the day.
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