Posted on 10/28/2006 6:41:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
"Second day (Thursday, April 30)
By the second day the violence appeared widespread and unchecked. Open gun battles were televised as Korean shopkeepers (many of them veterans of the Korean War) took to using firearms to protect their businesses from crowds of looters." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
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