The 92 riots?
It was just a matter of time.
Like earthquakes. They’re periodic.
Rodney King was the immediate catalyst but the “seismic” pressures had been building for a couple years. The Beulah Love shooting was still fresh in people’s minds. 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.
For the next couple years there were guys standing on sidewalks selling random stuff that was almost certainly looted. Even on Figueroa near 7th!
“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.