The locals relied heavily on the Korean stores because the locals had chased off larger grocery stores by robbing and stealing from them and menacing other customers. The grocery stores were quite used to reading a P&L statement. The locals - slow learners - began doing the same things to the Koreans. The Koreans put up with (most of it).
When it all kicked off, so-called black anger against whites was somehow directed at....Koreans? The people who made it possible to buy beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets and junk food without having to travel some distance away?
While Rodney King remains a bizarre hero to the left and the race hustlers from that scenario, I prefer to think of Damian 'Football' Williams - cowardly, mindless brick-throwing thug. It probably won't surprise you that so-called urban media try desperately to portray criminality and mindless random violence as a noble cause...they even have the brass neck to call it 'rebellion.'
What the left won't admit is that they LOVED 1992. The media LOVED stoking a race war even if they had to rely on a drugged-up loser as their hero. They loved the 2nd largest city, supposedly a relaxed, laid-back place, going up in flames thanks to their agitation. It was a demonstration of their power. They loved hanging a Sword of Damocles over every city mayor, council, police chief and politician. Do what we say or this could be your city. Incredibly - and shamefully - copycat riots ensued in places like Cincinnati where entirely justified shootings of other punks took place.
They don't even try to hide it now. 'Oooh, this could lead to rioting' or 'If the police take a hard line won't it cause riots?' The riots are the constant in the media/leftist equation. As Col Schlichter notes, the variable in the equation can, should and must be an armed populace.