LOL! These are representative of the black community all right!
Now that they've dropped the little cross off the Los Angeles City Logo, who knows who's watching over them.
Forgive my cynicism and "who cares" attitude, but the way I look at it, if there's another riot, real estate values in the area will plummet like they did 12 years ago. Then maybe I could afford to buy a house.
And like '92, there is an incumbent Republican in the White House....another riot (timed perfectly with the George W. Bush/NAACP dust-up) is just what the left needs to "get out the base"....
ping for later
Who cares? Sorry if I sound harsh, but LA has been screwed up for a long time. Nothing short of several tons of explosives and live ordnance, properly applied, could make the place livable again.
It's an election year. Mad Maxine and her minions will be getting frisky..
"GREAT PIECE OF REPORTING PATRICK!! "
(ping to LA-area folks)
It appears that Mr. Rooney is Director of Special Project at Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's
organization. Here is a link to the archive of his writings.
http://www.bondinfo.org/media/articles/patrick/patrick.htm
Here's a direct link to the "front door" of BOND
http://www.bondinfo.org
Bill Cosbny could do a lot of good if he went there and gave a speech.
My son and I saw the man being beaten by the cops on tv. Did he resist arrest before they got him on the ground? Riot was the first thing that popped up in my head :-(
I remember seeing the Rodney King beating. Even my former husband was screaming at the tv for the dumb mother****** to hit the ground. When the riots started, I became very worried about my parents living down here(at the time we lived in Victorville), because they didn't watch tv and didn't know there was civil unrest close by.
Sorry to disappoint, but there will not be a riot this time.
25 to life would be a good start.
Am I still the only one who saw Miller, while going to the ground, reach with his right hand toward his right ankle/pants cuff after the officer holstered his own weapon?
The state had been in decline for some time before these incidents, but from that point forward there was no way to pretend southern California was anything other than the fouled-up, dysfunctional sh!t-hole that leaped out at us from our television screens.
The irony of the whole thing is that I now sense an utter lack of concern about this kind of incident. In fact, most people (including many blacks) are probably rooting for the cops whenever they hear that a "convicted felon" has been treated like a King on the streets of Los Angeles these days.
In all the hype about this poor Black repeat felon who got whacked with a flashlight, you never hear about the undoubtedly equally Black citizen whose car he stole for his joyride. Since judges and juries are happy to keep kicking these guys loose over and over again, the only justice the victims will ever see is street justice, when the cops work the perp over on the spot. Now, thanks to ubiquitous busybodies with cheap video cameras and the unholy alliance of rabble-rousing media and the grievance industry, they won't even get that anymore.
Californians doing what they do best. Entertaining the rest of the country.
My family just spent a few vacation days in LA. At the conclusion, my wife ask if it would be possible next time to take a vacation in the U.S.? From the beach to the restaurants, there was very little time the American English language could be heard.
The hordes, the traffic, were definite low points. The highlight was the visit to the Reagan Library and seeing the continued placement of memorial items honoring the man.
The day was spectacular, the inspiration of the man buoyed my spirits, and my wife swooned over what she said was probably the marriage love-story of the 20th century (the Reagans--not ours). Tip: Husbands--recite aloud the letters authored by the man to your dearest loved one or wife--then claim them as your own.
"I love LA!"
Good article! James Hahn is clueless about anything in the black community. He's too busy pandering to the Mexican activists. He's a pantload...
What sparked the LA riots last time was the media...and if the media spreads a rumor about a new riot in LA, they will again start a frenzy. The media is to blame and we shouldn't talk about rumors about riots as it's putting fuel on a fire.