Rooftop Koreans

[Jusme]

Schlichter does a great job describing what happened during the LA riots in 92, since he was on the front lines.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtsch ... n-n2545651

[Bitter Clinger]

Schlichter does a great job describing what happened during the LA riots in 92, since he was on the front lines.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtsch ... n-n2545651

Good read! Thanks for posting!

[wil]

I was on 92nd street, between western & crenshaw & it proved the simple truth. As long as the criminals could essentially hide behind the law, if I engaged in the use of lethal force and would face literal retribution under the status-quo of the legal system. they acted as they do because they knew they could get away with it.
The moment they realized that I would kill them without hesitation and at my own descretion, and would face no retribution from the legal system. Everything they were doing stopped, there and then.

It is or was an apt illustration of the most major failing of our legal system, the literal removal of the use of force at the hand of the public.

[ELB]

I arrived in Los Angeles in January 1992 for my assignment at Los Angeles AFB, which is at the corner of El Segundo and Aviation boulevards, (actually in the city of El Segundo). It is next to and just west of the 405 Freeway. Just on the east side of the freeway is where some of the rioting happened, and it was still being talked about on base. I was bemused to find out that the base had run its recall roster when the riots broke out -- but instead of the usual procedure of calling everyone to duty, it was run to tell everyone to stay home until the riots were under control. LAAFB is the home of Space and Missile Systems Center. We spent $$ buying really cool and useful stuff, like the Global Positioning System, but it is not armed citadel.

While in LA I first took up seriously trying to learn and train with a handgun, and I started with the Model 19 that I inherited from my Dad. I looked around and found a police officer and shooting competitor who taught self-defense shooting classes out at the Lake Piru range. He was a cop in the San Fernando Valley, and had been deployed for the riots. He told us that the police in his sector were posted at the government buildings and told to guard them and not to leave their posts, even if they could see bad things happening down the street. The city governments did not give a flip for protecting private property.

This guy, a screenwriter in Hollywood, was at a movie premiere when the rioting came to the front doors of the theater. He says of that day, "It was a defining moment of my life." He is since then a bit of an oddball in the Hollywood scene: conservative, Republican, NRA Life Member, and Zionist Jew. He details his "defining moment here: Jew Without A Gun

All this supports what Schlichter is talking about.

[thatguyoverthere]

I vividly remember watching video of the Rodney King riots every day on the evening news during that time. I had never seen such a thing. Every day, I could hardly believe what I was seeing.

I was very impressed with the resolve and the resourcefulness of the "rooftop Koreans." They did what they needed to do to protect themselves and their property under very uncertain circumstances.

I was also shocked at seeing the savagery of the merciless beating and attempted murder of truck driver Reginald Denny (and also remember being surprised that he survived such a vicious attack).

But another scene that I saw during those events also made a lasting impression on me in a different way. I think it was after the Reginald Denny beating (or maybe the same day?). It was footage shot from a news helicopter, showing rioters milling around on the street, and showed some cars either stuck in place, or moving very slowly through traffic and obstructions.

So anyway, this one guy in a car is stopped, waiting for a chance the get through an intersection, when a group of 8 or 10 or 12 guys that are 20 or 30 yards away from him notice that he is stopped. The group of rioters then begins moving directly toward this guy in this one car. As I'm seeing this, I thinking to myself "oh no, this is going to get real ugly, real quick."

The helicopter filming this is then just about directly overhead looking straight down, and all I remember seeing at that point is a long arm coming out of the driver's side window of the car, with some kind of big ol' gun in his hand! Suddenly, all these rioters coming towards the guy must have all simultaneously remembered that they had an urgent appointment somewhere else. The entire group all together at once just made a sharp 90 degree turn and moved off in another direction. The guy in the car just pulled the gun back inside and then drove off - neat, quick, clean, easy, no shots fired, no one hurt. THAT one scene spoke volumes to me that day!

[The Annoyed Man]

I worked in downtown LA at the time, and I have some memories of it. My office was located on First St, right at the foot of the First St bridge over the Los Angeles river, on the west side, just a few blocks east of city hall. I remember watching a crowd of a thousand or so "military aged males", many with "instruments of persuasion" in their hands, running west past my office window, along First St from the projects across the river toward city hall to join the festivities. They eventually trashed LAPD's Parker Center across from city hall. I had an appointment scheduled for that day with one of the supervisory personnel at the postal processing center at Central and Florence....about 14 blocks east of where Reginald Denny was attacked. I didn’t make it to the appointment.

Another time, I went out for lunch to the Mexican restaurant around the corner from our building, and as I came around the corner, I nearly bumped into the tail-end-Charley of a squad of marines patrolling the street. He was walking backward, with his head on a swivel, and carrying an M16. I gave him a nervous grin, and he gave me one back, and I followed them down the block to my destination at the next corner.

I remember other things, but those two memories stand out.