>>>>Remember the riots in 1992? How did that start? It started because 4 cops were caught beating the crap out of someone, then were acquitted of any wrongdoing during the arrest (as big of a joke as O.J. verdict). If this stuff is still happening next summer there will probably be a repeat - you'd think the city officials and police dept would learn because that wasn't the first time that had happened either.
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>>>I remember the whole thing well. Rodney King was a small time crook who only became famous because of the cop beating and someone catching it on video camera. Blacks in L.A. had a long simmering resentment against cops and that video ignited it like a bomb. I watched the whole thing unfold on TV in a rented apartment in Denver, L.A. up in flames.
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>>Yep. They looted from the Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, and most anyone else who was successful at the time.
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>I can't remember where I read about this*, but apparently around the same time, there had been another case involving a Korean storekeeper shooting a black patron, with the storekeeper being vindicated, or something along those lines. So that when the verdict came back in the Rodney King case, the black community already had animosity toward the Asian storekeepers in their midst.
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>* I think it was in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Presumption-Guilt-Arrest-Henry-America/dp/023010326X/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1328207272&sr=8-14
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>Tamar


I could never figure out the logic in the actions that followed. I understand the rage and resentment. But acting like that is analagous to me burning my house to the ground, torching my car and beating two of my kids because I don't like having the government confiscate my hard earned wages....

Go Figure...