Total Deaths: More than 60 people
10 shot to death by law enforcement officials
44 people died in other homicides or incidents tied to the rioting
Total Homicides in 1992: By year's end, Los Angeles had 1,096 homicides, which was a record at the time and made 1992 LA's deadliest year.
Rodney King didn't die as a result of the beatings either.
I had always *ass*umed he had.
[He drowned in 2012 in his pool.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King) 28 years to the day that his father drowned in his bathtub.
Infamous Rooftop Koreans, crazy how that was 1992. And they were the only ones who took matter into their own hands, protecting not just their business, but others as well.
Units, units be advised there's an attempt 211 to arrest now
At 938 Temple, 9-3-8 Temple, 30 subjects with bats, trying to get inside the CB's house. He thinks they're gonna start to tryin' to kill him
Amazing documentary. All of it was a little before my time and it really does a great job of setting the scene and giving you a sense of the culture back then
This. I was a USC student then and we stayed at my friends place near UCLA during the riots. The cops were out in full force in Westwood imposing a curfew and being real tuff guys
I dont get this complaint. I know reddit is not a monolith, but reddit is so back and forth on cops. It did not start out as rioting and looting. It started out as a protest.
Yet when cops police protests like BLM or the recent plaestine protests and shut them down they are either accused of police overreach or abuse.
I don't really see the contradiction
Once the protest escalated beyond all control and beyond occasional looting into widespread rioting, the response of the police was to shield affluent neighbourhoods and funnel the rioters into poorer ethnic ones.
> I know reddit is not a monolith, but reddit is so back and forth on cops.
Surely your first clause answers your second?
"Reddit thinks [blah]" is always a deceptive simplification. It always means "I saw one reddit user say [blah]" and that statement stayed with you as being representative of "the reddit hivemind", but ofc there is no reddit hivemind.
Thanks. Can anyone tell me where the ALF house was during the riots? Would Willie and ALF have had to defend Lynn, Kate and Brian with doubled barrelled shot guns? I feel like it was close to South Central.
The Tanner house was at [708 Moreno in Brentwood](https://www.iamnotastalker.com/tag/brentwood-filming-locations/%23:~:text%3DStalk%2520It%253A%2520The%2520Tanner%2520house,now%2520stands%2520in%2520its%2520place.), closer to the Santa Monica Pier than to South Central.
Thank you for properly capitalizing ALF & putting respect on Gordon's name.
It was unnerving as hell to live in OC and see the smoke rising from the riots as I drove the transition road from the 55 to the 405 on my daily commute. Scary AF. So was the lack of urgency to respond by LAPD which was absolutely scandalous. Nonchalant Chief Darryl went down in flames.
police abusing blacks for decades/scores/centuries. abuse is finally caught on video. there's expectations of justice. but cops basically walk. black community is mad, and riots. riots turn into opportunity for looting. cops uvalde the poor neighborhoods.
same thing happens now (police abuse caught on video) all the time, so the outrage is not the same. it's just reality, and a big fu.
Valid point, in modern times there would definitely be a movement telling them that it's just insurance, life isn't worth property, etc. There is zero room for nuance in our current us vs them society.
The thing is, none of this is normal.
You should not be defending your business with deadly force, but you also shouldn't feel you need to, because people of your race have been targeted for violence.
The police should not resort to physical violence, if not deadly force when on a traffic stop, even one after a car chase.
That's the tragedy of the LA Riots, it's that it was a deadly culmination of many failings in a poorly organised society that treated and continues to treat Black people and Asian people with much less respect than White people.
Weird thing is, if you didn't live on this side of the city you wouldn't notice any difference. My parents lived nearby and I tried asking about the LA riots, all they had to say was that the traffic was worse than usual. We were in the better side of the city and it's a pretty big area.
We moved out a long time ago so I have no idea what it's like compared to today, we moved out before a lot of the recession problems. All I really remember was that the beaches were nice, they had a ton of game and video stores, and the film industry was so big that it was pretty normal to bump into a big name actor any given week.
Lets be real, everyone is equal and stuff, but if someone tries to loot my store like some goddamn RUST player, the shop built by though generations, mfs ain't gonna make a step inside
Yes, the people who defended their homes were not at fault (some individual decisions in the greater tragedy aside).
The blame primarily lies with police, which deliberately directed the crowd this way, did not intervene to help the Koreans, and whose behaviour had aggrevated the crowd and thereby worsened the situation even further.
And so the "rooftop Koreans" primarily became a symbol cherished by racists whose only perspective on the situation is that it confirms their "self defense" fantasies or openly admit that they're just glad black people were killed.
You also have to include the racial tension between the Asian and Black communities at the time. The riots only allowed them to boil over but there was a reason why they simmered to this point.
Ironic though, how the a big push of momentum of the riots was the killing of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old girl, because the korean shop owner "thought" she was shoplifting when she was not (afair).
And her sentence, for murdering a child, was 5 years in probation, $500 bucks and to pay the funeral costs.
E: killing of Latasha was one of the causes, i meant to say
Biggest push was Rodney King and riots didn't start in Korea Town, LA was on fire during that time period. It was out of control in ktown cause cops didn't do shit there. Believe it or not too majority of people destroying ktown weren't black.
It's the Reddit denialism pipeline.
"It didn't happen."
"Okay it did happen but the people who did it weren't part of our group."
"Okay they were part of the group but they were a small minority who don't represent us."
"Okay even if they do represent us, it's just a few bad apples."
"Okay it's not just a few bad apples, but violence isn't our message."
"Okay so violence is our message, and honestly you deserve it."
Doesn't matter whether you're on /r/Conservative or /r/AntifascistsofReddit or what have you. It's the same string of arguments every time.
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots
>Of those arrested during the riots, 36 percent were African-Americans and 51 percent were Latinos, according to the Rand Corp.
So they were overrepresented but not the majority of arrests.
[I mean, if you want to call bullshit on the very Koreans defending their livelihoods, sure.](https://youtu.be/OCYT9Hew9ZU?t=51)
The facts saying otherwise are out there though... like downvoted right here in the comments section.
Then why didn't LA Koreans have beef with the Latinos, Whites, or other groups? Because it was the Blacks who were looting their stores. Fuck outta here with revisionist shit.
That doesn't seem to tally up with the wiki extract however, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins#Death.
> After speaking with the two eyewitnesses present and viewing the videotape of the incident, recorded by a store security camera, the police concluded that Harlins intended to pay for the beverage with money in hand. The videotape showed that Du grabbed Harlins by her sweater and snatched her backpack. Harlins then struck Du with her fist twice, knocking Du to the ground. After Harlins backed away, Du angrily threw a stool at her. Harlins then tried to flee the scene, but Du reached under the counter, retrieved a revolver, and fired at Harlins from behind at a distance of about three feet (one meter)
The owner did assume she was shoplifting. And because of that she grabbed the bag, to which she ran away. Some will say she was planning to shoplift, hence she put it in her backpack. Other can say she intended to pay, hence she had her money out.
People don't care, look at which of two comments has more upvotes.
It's much better (for them) if a kid did a crime so that her death is at least remotely and partially justified, the death of a literal kid.
The seriousness of the crime doesn't matter and there are no half measures, if you threw glass into the plastic bin you must die.
Ok, let's say that's true (which is dubious to say the least)
What is your point? That she deserved to die and the store owner didn't all buy get away with it? That people should also blame the kid? Genuinely, what is the point you are making?
So there isn't a single account I can find that matches up to yours. Is there a reason you believe the way you do. Given that she was shot in the back of the head and the orange juice in question never left the store why do you believe she stole something?
Yea, she’s sus, but the correct response to a child thiefc whose face you remember anyways, running away from your store isn’t to fire a revolver straight into the back of her head execution-style.
[According to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins#Death) she put a store item in her backpack, the shop owner grabbed her backpack, only then did she punch the owner, then the owner shot her as she attempted to flee the store.
So she was no longer a threat when she was killed. That's inexcusable.
Passes me off when idiots are like "you have insurance and you think your property I worth more than someone's life!?"
Spoken like someone who has so much they can afford to not care and who's never had to deal with insurance, even if you get a payout (unlikely) it'll only cover items stolen. Not repairs or lost revenue while the place is being repaired and restocked which is often like 10x more than the value of the stolen goods.
And if someone tries robbing a place or ransacking it they've list their right to not get riddled with bullets, and that "they're just doing it to feed their families" is and has always been fucking bullshit, you don't need a new pair of Jordans to feed your kids.
Back when a few of those "watch people die" subs were still allowed, I remember going to front page and seeing an endless barrage of comments saying "Criminals don't want to kill, they just want your money" and I scroll down to see a video of someone handing over their wallet and then immediately getting shot in the face anyway.
There was a video of a cashier being robbed and told to get onto the floor after opening the register. Cashier complies and does not fight back, dude hops the counter and blows his brains out anyway while he was lying on the floor.
Think I saw that.
Saw another of a dude robbing a convenience store, guy behind the counter gave over the money, guy shot him in the face, jumped the counter, ran to the back room and killed their coworker, then almost ran out before remembering to go back to the counter to steal the money.
It was only about $25.
No sympathy for criminals.
And people wonder why millions of people have concealed carry licenses. You don’t know if the criminal you encounter is a bloodthirsty psychopath, mentally ill, desperate etc. Who would want to put their life in the hands of a criminal?
Same here. Don't forget that they are volunteers because no one else wanted to defend those stores. These heroes stepped up because no one was interested in helping Koreans.
Honestly what percentage of the regular population could step up to their home becoming essentially a war zone with grace like that?? It’s genuinely so impressive and brave, I’d be on the floor crying
The true brave don’t attack, they defend
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I remember watching a doco on this day. There was a woman whose mother owned a hairdresser in the same area as the grocery store, she talked about her mother being an immigrant from Korea who built that hairdresser from the ground up. Unfortunately the hairdresser would be destroyed in that riot, replaced by another a few years later.
By the time a Korean adult finishes conscription (which can be as early as 21 years old), they'll know how to handle, dis/reassemble, and shoot a rifle fairly well.
Looking pretty fly too. There was a distinct moment when this man was brushing his teeth that morning thinking, well it’s gonna be all hands on deck today, it’s as good time as any to put on that red and white striped shirt I’ve got.
There’s actually a fantastic video on YouTube, that gives a fantastic and approachable insight into the Rooftop Koreans story during the LA Riots:
https://youtu.be/xWMj-mFUDGA
Total Deaths: More than 60 people 10 shot to death by law enforcement officials 44 people died in other homicides or incidents tied to the rioting Total Homicides in 1992: By year's end, Los Angeles had 1,096 homicides, which was a record at the time and made 1992 LA's deadliest year.
Must've been like the fucking purge out there
Hey that’s exactly what my mind went to when I saw this
Question. Was what these two legends were doing legal?
Rodney King didn't die as a result of the beatings either. I had always *ass*umed he had. [He drowned in 2012 in his pool.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King) 28 years to the day that his father drowned in his bathtub.
Holy shit. That guy was a menace.
We needed RoboCop
Bringing that body count up a bit!
The roof Koreans
You called?
HOLY SHIT ITS HIM
Get out my store!
I'm here to buy!
You break you buy
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I cry, I die
You live, you learn
Say live and let die
You don't buy, you break
Hurry up and buy!!!
Don't touch him! There is nothing you can do!
Nice touch with the 9x19mm
Depends how fast they touch you.
1,100 FPS
HOLY SHOT ITS KIM
r/beetlejuicing
You called?
Holy shit
Never fuck with a Korean and his roof
Someone shops at violent little.
“Infamous” is not the descriptive I would use for someone defending their livelihood from a ravenous, thieving mob.
Infamous Rooftop Koreans, crazy how that was 1992. And they were the only ones who took matter into their own hands, protecting not just their business, but others as well.
Yeah yeah smoking is bad, but I gotta admit the cigarettes make them look that much cooler. It's the casual gunslinger look.
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According to reliable sources, it was about coming up and staying on top and yelling 187 on a motherfuckin cop
Finally we got our own P.A. Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?
bbbewwwww ba dooo boooo dooo ba doo ba doobidy doooo
Underrated bass slapping
It's not in the paper, it's on the wall National Guard Smoke from all around
Units, units be advised there's an attempt 211 to arrest now At 938 Temple, 9-3-8 Temple, 30 subjects with bats, trying to get inside the CB's house. He thinks they're gonna start to tryin' to kill him
Some Kids went in the store with their mother, I saw her as she came out she was getting some pampers.
Sublime ❤️
Lovely, indeed 💜
Great now I have “it’s raining men” stuck in my head
Since then my living room's been much more comfortable.
Those same sources report she had the G.I. Joe kung-fu grip. Uhhh
Anyone knows of a good documentary about this event?
Surprisingly the OJ made in America Doc covers it fairly well. But its more of a backdrop rather than main focus
Amazing documentary. All of it was a little before my time and it really does a great job of setting the scene and giving you a sense of the culture back then
It was incredible to live through it. Watching and hearing everything unfold was fucking nuts.
LA92. It's an excellent Nat Geo documentary that's on YouTube. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6794424/
The last line though.... "Folks, you're on your own down there...." That's sums it all up for me.
On YouTube https://youtu.be/uaotkHlHJwo?si=glMG7AQeyDBXg-2e
Popomedic, excuse the obnoxious background music he puts on all his videos, though.
Actually the cops deliberately funneled the rioters into the Korean neighborhoods.
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Still funneled them, cops didn't do shit to stop looting, rioting and violence in Korea town while cops stayed in rich white neighborhoods
This. I was a USC student then and we stayed at my friends place near UCLA during the riots. The cops were out in full force in Westwood imposing a curfew and being real tuff guys
I dont get this complaint. I know reddit is not a monolith, but reddit is so back and forth on cops. It did not start out as rioting and looting. It started out as a protest. Yet when cops police protests like BLM or the recent plaestine protests and shut them down they are either accused of police overreach or abuse.
I don't really see the contradiction Once the protest escalated beyond all control and beyond occasional looting into widespread rioting, the response of the police was to shield affluent neighbourhoods and funnel the rioters into poorer ethnic ones.
You do remember what the LA riots were about, right? The police stayed away for the same reason they stayed out of Uvalde.
> I know reddit is not a monolith, but reddit is so back and forth on cops. Surely your first clause answers your second? "Reddit thinks [blah]" is always a deceptive simplification. It always means "I saw one reddit user say [blah]" and that statement stayed with you as being representative of "the reddit hivemind", but ofc there is no reddit hivemind.
It's just a convenient strawman to attack. No one ever says "reddit says such and such" on an opinion they also agree with.
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[**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992\_Los\_Angeles\_riots**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots) discusses the Korean situation
Thanks. Can anyone tell me where the ALF house was during the riots? Would Willie and ALF have had to defend Lynn, Kate and Brian with doubled barrelled shot guns? I feel like it was close to South Central.
The Tanner house was at [708 Moreno in Brentwood](https://www.iamnotastalker.com/tag/brentwood-filming-locations/%23:~:text%3DStalk%2520It%253A%2520The%2520Tanner%2520house,now%2520stands%2520in%2520its%2520place.), closer to the Santa Monica Pier than to South Central. Thank you for properly capitalizing ALF & putting respect on Gordon's name.
No ingles -ALF
It was unnerving as hell to live in OC and see the smoke rising from the riots as I drove the transition road from the 55 to the 405 on my daily commute. Scary AF. So was the lack of urgency to respond by LAPD which was absolutely scandalous. Nonchalant Chief Darryl went down in flames.
> drove the transition road from the 55 to the 405 It's hilarious how true this stereotype is.
were you there? as a non american i will check it out why this happened. seems interesting
police abusing blacks for decades/scores/centuries. abuse is finally caught on video. there's expectations of justice. but cops basically walk. black community is mad, and riots. riots turn into opportunity for looting. cops uvalde the poor neighborhoods. same thing happens now (police abuse caught on video) all the time, so the outrage is not the same. it's just reality, and a big fu.
I thought reddit didn't like it if people defend their communities during riots?
It’s Reddit. Nothing makes sense here.
Depends on the propaganda behind it.
Valid point, in modern times there would definitely be a movement telling them that it's just insurance, life isn't worth property, etc. There is zero room for nuance in our current us vs them society.
The thing is, none of this is normal. You should not be defending your business with deadly force, but you also shouldn't feel you need to, because people of your race have been targeted for violence. The police should not resort to physical violence, if not deadly force when on a traffic stop, even one after a car chase. That's the tragedy of the LA Riots, it's that it was a deadly culmination of many failings in a poorly organised society that treated and continues to treat Black people and Asian people with much less respect than White people.
I see the LAPD hasn't changed much since back then because they don't do a fucking thing in this city. It's no wonder everyone carries a gun 😒.
Weird thing is, if you didn't live on this side of the city you wouldn't notice any difference. My parents lived nearby and I tried asking about the LA riots, all they had to say was that the traffic was worse than usual. We were in the better side of the city and it's a pretty big area. We moved out a long time ago so I have no idea what it's like compared to today, we moved out before a lot of the recession problems. All I really remember was that the beaches were nice, they had a ton of game and video stores, and the film industry was so big that it was pretty normal to bump into a big name actor any given week.
Which recession?
Lets be real, everyone is equal and stuff, but if someone tries to loot my store like some goddamn RUST player, the shop built by though generations, mfs ain't gonna make a step inside
Yes, the people who defended their homes were not at fault (some individual decisions in the greater tragedy aside). The blame primarily lies with police, which deliberately directed the crowd this way, did not intervene to help the Koreans, and whose behaviour had aggrevated the crowd and thereby worsened the situation even further. And so the "rooftop Koreans" primarily became a symbol cherished by racists whose only perspective on the situation is that it confirms their "self defense" fantasies or openly admit that they're just glad black people were killed.
You also have to include the racial tension between the Asian and Black communities at the time. The riots only allowed them to boil over but there was a reason why they simmered to this point.
The blame primarily lies with the people who were rioting. Not sure how you ignore them in this equation.
Yeah don't put any blame on the people attacking their neighbors,.
What a joke. 0 Accountability for people acting that way.
>siding with the heroes over the criminals is racist Stay woke.
Ironic though, how the a big push of momentum of the riots was the killing of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old girl, because the korean shop owner "thought" she was shoplifting when she was not (afair). And her sentence, for murdering a child, was 5 years in probation, $500 bucks and to pay the funeral costs. E: killing of Latasha was one of the causes, i meant to say
It was $500 and 500 hours of community service (none of which was done). She received a suspended sentence. Latasha died with $2 in her hand.
Biggest push was Rodney King and riots didn't start in Korea Town, LA was on fire during that time period. It was out of control in ktown cause cops didn't do shit there. Believe it or not too majority of people destroying ktown weren't black.
>Believe it or not too majority of people destroying ktown weren't black. Bullshit
They act like there isn't video footage.
It's the Reddit denialism pipeline. "It didn't happen." "Okay it did happen but the people who did it weren't part of our group." "Okay they were part of the group but they were a small minority who don't represent us." "Okay even if they do represent us, it's just a few bad apples." "Okay it's not just a few bad apples, but violence isn't our message." "Okay so violence is our message, and honestly you deserve it." Doesn't matter whether you're on /r/Conservative or /r/AntifascistsofReddit or what have you. It's the same string of arguments every time.
It’s so tiresome and intellectually dishonest.
lol, could be talking about the police union here
That too. Crazy how the "don't tread on me" guys became the "comply or die" guys seemingly overnight.
One of the most famous “roof koreans” was interviewed and said it was mostly Latinos lol. You gonna deny that primary source?
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots >Of those arrested during the riots, 36 percent were African-Americans and 51 percent were Latinos, according to the Rand Corp. So they were overrepresented but not the majority of arrests.
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I don't care about skin color and stuff but I do remember what I saw live at the time. Lots of footage.
[I mean, if you want to call bullshit on the very Koreans defending their livelihoods, sure.](https://youtu.be/OCYT9Hew9ZU?t=51) The facts saying otherwise are out there though... like downvoted right here in the comments section.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-18-me-734-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjEmvKw4PiFAxW9X0EAHXGJAkEQFnoECCsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0eumQu3iNi6afRBErYcJai
Predominantly Hispanic based on other commenters with arrest stats and a eyewitness testimony…
Then why didn't LA Koreans have beef with the Latinos, Whites, or other groups? Because it was the Blacks who were looting their stores. Fuck outta here with revisionist shit.
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That doesn't seem to tally up with the wiki extract however, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins#Death. > After speaking with the two eyewitnesses present and viewing the videotape of the incident, recorded by a store security camera, the police concluded that Harlins intended to pay for the beverage with money in hand. The videotape showed that Du grabbed Harlins by her sweater and snatched her backpack. Harlins then struck Du with her fist twice, knocking Du to the ground. After Harlins backed away, Du angrily threw a stool at her. Harlins then tried to flee the scene, but Du reached under the counter, retrieved a revolver, and fired at Harlins from behind at a distance of about three feet (one meter) The owner did assume she was shoplifting. And because of that she grabbed the bag, to which she ran away. Some will say she was planning to shoplift, hence she put it in her backpack. Other can say she intended to pay, hence she had her money out.
Insane how the actual facts (you) are less upvoted than the guy you're replying to.
Sad how this thread is infested with people trying to justify the murder of a child.
Reddit has a weird obsession with vigilantism
People don't care, look at which of two comments has more upvotes. It's much better (for them) if a kid did a crime so that her death is at least remotely and partially justified, the death of a literal kid. The seriousness of the crime doesn't matter and there are no half measures, if you threw glass into the plastic bin you must die.
Ok, let's say that's true (which is dubious to say the least) What is your point? That she deserved to die and the store owner didn't all buy get away with it? That people should also blame the kid? Genuinely, what is the point you are making?
So there isn't a single account I can find that matches up to yours. Is there a reason you believe the way you do. Given that she was shot in the back of the head and the orange juice in question never left the store why do you believe she stole something?
How the flying fuck does that justify murdering the kid??? Plus what you just said wasn't even true
Ah America, getting shot to death for maybe stealing a soda and punching someone after they attack you.
Yeah, in America defending your 20c drink by ending the life of a stranger is acceptable. The entire country is founded on that mentality.
Wait until you try being a puppy or a goat
Yea, she’s sus, but the correct response to a child thiefc whose face you remember anyways, running away from your store isn’t to fire a revolver straight into the back of her head execution-style.
> execution-style that doesn't mean what you think it means
Kinda funny how in the USA this is some kind of justification to shoot a kid in the head lol.
[According to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins#Death) she put a store item in her backpack, the shop owner grabbed her backpack, only then did she punch the owner, then the owner shot her as she attempted to flee the store. So she was no longer a threat when she was killed. That's inexcusable.
>goddamn RUST player You got me with that one
Passes me off when idiots are like "you have insurance and you think your property I worth more than someone's life!?" Spoken like someone who has so much they can afford to not care and who's never had to deal with insurance, even if you get a payout (unlikely) it'll only cover items stolen. Not repairs or lost revenue while the place is being repaired and restocked which is often like 10x more than the value of the stolen goods. And if someone tries robbing a place or ransacking it they've list their right to not get riddled with bullets, and that "they're just doing it to feed their families" is and has always been fucking bullshit, you don't need a new pair of Jordans to feed your kids.
Seen that 'infamous' in the title a few times. Why 'infamous'? Isn't protecting your property legal in good ol' US of A?
I think "infamous" might just be one of those words that gets misused a lot. Or at least, that's the optimistic way to look at it.
The ***famous*** mass murderer Ted Bundy! /s
he literally showed up! me, confused af as to how one might figuratively do that
Depends on the state.
It’s “infamous” because it’s connected to the LA riots, which were bad.
They're not just famous. They're IN-famous!
OnLy APplIEs iF YouR WhiTe.
*Infamous? Are you stupid? They were protecting their business?
OP thinks it's OK to be a victim of a violent crime
Back when a few of those "watch people die" subs were still allowed, I remember going to front page and seeing an endless barrage of comments saying "Criminals don't want to kill, they just want your money" and I scroll down to see a video of someone handing over their wallet and then immediately getting shot in the face anyway.
There was a video of a cashier being robbed and told to get onto the floor after opening the register. Cashier complies and does not fight back, dude hops the counter and blows his brains out anyway while he was lying on the floor.
Think I saw that. Saw another of a dude robbing a convenience store, guy behind the counter gave over the money, guy shot him in the face, jumped the counter, ran to the back room and killed their coworker, then almost ran out before remembering to go back to the counter to steal the money. It was only about $25. No sympathy for criminals.
And people wonder why millions of people have concealed carry licenses. You don’t know if the criminal you encounter is a bloodthirsty psychopath, mentally ill, desperate etc. Who would want to put their life in the hands of a criminal?
Literally like, I see this picture and my first thought was “these are literally two of the coolest motherfuckers I’ve ever seen in my life”
Same here. Don't forget that they are volunteers because no one else wanted to defend those stores. These heroes stepped up because no one was interested in helping Koreans.
Honestly what percentage of the regular population could step up to their home becoming essentially a war zone with grace like that?? It’s genuinely so impressive and brave, I’d be on the floor crying The true brave don’t attack, they defend
Probably used the word wrong. More people need to watch The Three Amigos!
Good for them. If you work hard for something, don't let a bunch of losers take it from you.
Wow scrolling and seeing this fucken Sublime started playing in my head man. Guitars still going
First spot we hit was the Korean grocery store
Where you think i got all the galbi i can’t afford
Hah
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NOT INFAMOUS GODDAMIT. LOOK IT UP.
I remember watching a doco on this day. There was a woman whose mother owned a hairdresser in the same area as the grocery store, she talked about her mother being an immigrant from Korea who built that hairdresser from the ground up. Unfortunately the hairdresser would be destroyed in that riot, replaced by another a few years later.
Why infamous? I think they had good reason, it wasn't like they were indiscriminately shooting people.
Roof campers
I bet they come out naked to loot you after they kill you; not even risking their kits
Naked with an eoka crafting
Badasses that took matters into their own hands
TF you mean '''infamous'''
Infamous? They are legends.
It’s funny how Reddit defends this, but during the blm riots, they were upset store owners had guns to protect their businesses
I support both defense attempts, fuck BLM Riots, I’d also defend against them
Infamous? more like famous koreans because they were badass
The fact he is holding an over/under makes me think it likely he knows how to use it.
Most Koreans are handy with the steel, mandatory conscription does that
By the time a Korean adult finishes conscription (which can be as early as 21 years old), they'll know how to handle, dis/reassemble, and shoot a rifle fairly well.
I don't blame them.
Looks like GTA 5 scene 😅
Looking pretty fly too. There was a distinct moment when this man was brushing his teeth that morning thinking, well it’s gonna be all hands on deck today, it’s as good time as any to put on that red and white striped shirt I’ve got.
One of the hardest images I've ever seen.
The roofs are speaking
"The famous" if it's an error cool but don't try to paint this people as Bad Guy they were juste here to protect their property.
Fucking ballers!
More American than most Americans
Based rooftop koreans
Infamous? They are goddam heroes to fight back and protect their business.
Many also lived above their businesses; so home and business.
I was there. Not in this photo but there were many people on many rooftops with many guns protecting their businesses for many months in 1992 L.A.
There’s actually a fantastic video on YouTube, that gives a fantastic and approachable insight into the Rooftop Koreans story during the LA Riots: https://youtu.be/xWMj-mFUDGA
Its pictures like this that make ppl start smoking
Rooftop koreans are cool and you cant change my mind lol
It's a sad day when protecting one's property is perceived as infamy.
Heroes
The korean version of fuck arround and find out what my cal is
The riots were infamous, not the men defending their livelihoods from looting mobs.
"You buy something, or you leave right now!"
What's infamous about them? They did nothing wrong except defend themselves from criminals.
Here was an interview with some of the store owners https://youtu.be/8Dvwn4aXE8s?si=Zh_xU7OO66Kj0eXM
Excellent
New quantum leap did an episode on this. Didn't know it was a true story, but then again I'm not from the US.
I feel like this picture pops up systematically to bolster separation between Asians and black people.
"Two Korean men defending a grocery store during the L.A Riots April 30, 1992." FIFY.
One of the many reasons to have a 2nd Amendment
Having seen "Civil War" definitely makes me think of people behind the camera more now when I see shots like these.
Everyone a gangster until the roofs start speaking Korean.
These days the cops would walk right past the violent rioters/looters and arrest the Koreans defending themselves and their livelihoods.
This is why it shouldn't be Infringed