Posted on 04/27/2017 4:39:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s been 25 years since the Los Angeles rebellion, but Rep. Maxine Waters remembers it like it was just yesterday.
The California Democrat was traveling on business when Rodney King was brutally beaten by LAPD officers on March 3, 1991. She told HuffPost that she remembers watching the footage from her hotel bed.
“I sat straight up and all I could say, ‘Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Look at this,’” Waters said. She and black Americans across the country shared the same outrage.
King, who was pulled over after a high-speed chase with the LAPD, was released from jail without being charged. But black people’s anger increased as they witnessed the 17 cops who did nothing but watch as their colleagues beat King walk free. The residents of Los Angeles reached their boiling point on April 29, 1992, however, when a mostly white jury acquitted the four white cops who assaulted King. That is when the city rebelled....
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She is the distraction.
Anyone who would get their rocks off on watching that guy get hit in the head with a cinder block should have their human card revoked.
It must be a miserable life to be a democrat.
It seems like all they think about is race and skin color, perverted sex, abortion, tearing things down (ie: historical monuments, American flags), and forcing others to do what democrats want and to live as democrats tell them.
The idea of people being normal and free to live as they please seems to terrify them.
She means “communist resistance “.......but they always cloak their language.
No one ever claimed the Democratic Party was filled with rocket surgeons.
Because they don't have to choose. They don't have to say, "Do we want Corey Booker or Kamala Harris -- or Warren or Gillibrand or Castro or Cuomo?
Promoting Maxine is like promoting John Lewis -- neither of them is going to run for president, so the media can give them some airtime without committing themselves to one candidate and rejecting all the others.
It’s said that the shoe and hardware store owners hid their money under the work boots.
I doubt that Reginal Denny feels the same way.
(For those in diapers in 1992 he is the white truck driver who pulled out of his cab and stomped unconscious, leading to King’s enduring words “can’t we all just get along?”)
Were any Koreans prosecuted because of that?
It was basically a race riot against the Koreans (the newcomers from Asia). A lot of their small businesses didn’t have insurance, and when they were burned out, they lost everything.
Mayor Bradley (black) was not sympathetic; and when city hall workers (black) threw garbage on Koreans during a demonstration, he apologized, but refused to meet with them.
Korean workers also were driven off construction sites (again, nothing from the city).
Maxine Waters basically called for Koreans to be attacked and murdered (inciting to riot).
Reverse all the colors, and you’ll see how much racism was involved.
Denny had an interesting path afterwards. You might enjoy his life story.
“As well as the case of the Korean liquor store owner who shot a shoplifter in the bad of the head as the perp was walking out the door — and got away with it.”
She was punched and knocked down three times first. The third time she came up with a gun and automatically fired.
The judge had no place to put her, as there is only one detention center for women in LA, and the inmates (mostly black) had sworn to kill her.
Imagine if a black store owner was knocked down three times in the old south, and then came up shooting after the last knockdown, and then was put on trial, and you’ll see
what the result was likely to be.
People aren’t any different under the skin; and blacks are no more (nor any less) racist than anyone else.
Yes think that was the moment I was thinking of also.
I wish we knew the names of those three African American Christian people who rescued what was left of Reginald Denny. Those people should have schools named after them, but that will never happen. If those three people were honored it would make a lot of people “uncomfortable.”
It absolutely was a riot. Rebellions are usually reserved to describe action against a tyrannical government. I had the pleasure of being there after our tactical unit was sent there to help out the LAPD. I can sure think of lots of better ways to make some extra money earning per diem and overtime. The Korean store owners did what they had to do and I still commend them for it. Maxine Waters is completely out of her mind on this one.
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