25 years later: The L.A. riots, rioting democrats and saving Korea Town, armed citizens......

[2aguy]

Here you have an incident where armed citizens stopped democrats from looting and burning their stores.....because the people of Korea Town had guns....and the police left the scene....

25 years after LA Riots: Korean gun store manager speaks (VIDEO)

Former gun store manager David Joo talks about the day in 1992 when he and other local business owners stuck to their guns to defend Koreatown from looters during the LA Riots.

As part “L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later” by the A&E network, Joo spoke about the flashpoint in American history sparked in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial.

Called into work by the gun store owner, Joo said when he arrived and saw police there he though the rioting in the area was under control.

“We are safe,” he said, then quickly added, “But as soon as the gunfighting started, they ran away. Goodbye!”

Spliced with archival footage from the day showing a much younger Joo clad in soft body armor and firing a Beretta pistol, he relates the events in a brief segment.

“In retrospect, it was a dangerous moment and I was scared, but you know even though you are scared you don’t have much option,” said Joo.”You have to fight.”

 

[yiostheoy]

Here you have an incident where armed citizens stopped democrats from looting and burning their stores.....because the people of Korea Town had guns....and the police left the scene....

25 years after LA Riots: Korean gun store manager speaks (VIDEO)

You really think these rioting morons were registered voters, huh ?!

That tends to indicate what your own I/Q level is as well.

 

[2aguy]

Here you have an incident where armed citizens stopped democrats from looting and burning their stores.....because the people of Korea Town had guns....and the police left the scene....

25 years after LA Riots: Korean gun store manager speaks (VIDEO)

You really think these rioting morons were registered voters, huh ?!

That tends to indicate what your own I/Q level is as well.

Shit head....if LA is anything like Chicago....their gangs also buy political protection.....

Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance



Baskin—who was himself a candidate in the 16th Ward aldermanic race, which he would lose—was happy to oblige. In all, he says, he helped broker meetings between roughly 30 politicians (ten sitting aldermen and 20 candidates for City Council) and at least six gang representatives. That claim is backed up by two other community activists, Harold Davis Jr. and Kublai K. M. Toure, who worked with Baskin to arrange the meetings, and a third participant, also a community activist, who requested anonymity. The gang representatives were former chiefs who had walked away from day-to-day thug life, but they were still respected on the streets and wielded enough influence to mobilize active gang members.

The first meeting, according to Baskin, occurred in early November 2010, right before the statewide general election; more gatherings followed in the run-up to the February 2011 municipal elections. The venues included office buildings, restaurants, and law offices. (By all accounts, similar meetings took place across the city before last year’s elections and in elections past, including after hours at the Garfield Center, a taxpayer-financed facility on the West Side that is used by the city’s Department of Family and Support Services.)

At some of the meetings, the politicians arrived with campaign materials and occasionally with aides. The sessions were organized much like corporate-style job fairs. The gang representatives conducted hourlong interviews, one after the other, talking to as many as five candidates in a single evening. Like supplicants, the politicians came into the room alone and sat before the gang representatives, who sat behind a long table. “One candidate said, ‘I feel like I’m in the hot seat,’” recalls Baskin. “And they were.”

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Our findings:

• While they typically deny it, many public officials—mostly, but not limited to, aldermen, state legislators, and elected judges—routinely seek political support from influential street gangs. Meetings like the ones Baskin organized, for instance, are hardly an anomaly. Gangs can provide a decisive advantage at election time by performing the kinds of chores patronage armies once did.
• In some cases, the partnerships extend beyond the elections in troubling—and possibly criminal—ways, greased by the steady and largely secret flow of money from gang leaders to certain politicians and vice versa. The gangs funnel their largess through opaque businesses, or front companies, and through under-the-table payments. In turn, grateful politicians use their payrolls or campaign funds to hire gang members, pull strings for them to get jobs or contracts, or offer other favors (see“Gangs and Politicians: Prisoner Shuffle”).
• Most alarming, both law enforcement and gang sources say, is that some politicians ignore the gangs’ criminal activities. Some go so far as to protect gangs from the police, tipping them off to impending raids or to surveillance activities—in effect, creating safe havens in their political districts. And often they chafe at backing tough measures to stem gang activities, advocating instead for superficial solutions that may garner good press but have little impact.

The paradox is that Chicago’s struggle to combat street gangs is being undermined by its own elected officials. And the alliances between lawmakers and lawbreakers raise a troubling question: Who actually rules the neighborhoods—our public servants or the gangs?and how they affect sentencing and prison sentences...

 

[MaryL]

Yawn.More rationale explaining why blacks don't like being "profiled" and yet bashing and hurting Innocent whites. Noticing the disconnect in the black community, Dare I say it?

 

[Claudette]

Here you have an incident where armed citizens stopped democrats from looting and burning their stores.....because the people of Korea Town had guns....and the police left the scene....

25 years after LA Riots: Korean gun store manager speaks (VIDEO)

Former gun store manager David Joo talks about the day in 1992 when he and other local business owners stuck to their guns to defend Koreatown from looters during the LA Riots.

As part “L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later” by the A&E network, Joo spoke about the flashpoint in American history sparked in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial.

Called into work by the gun store owner, Joo said when he arrived and saw police there he though the rioting in the area was under control.

“We are safe,” he said, then quickly added, “But as soon as the gunfighting started, they ran away. Goodbye!”

Spliced with archival footage from the day showing a much younger Joo clad in soft body armor and firing a Beretta pistol, he relates the events in a brief segment.

“In retrospect, it was a dangerous moment and I was scared, but you know even though you are scared you don’t have much option,” said Joo.”You have to fight.”

Yup. I remember seeing those Koreans on top of their stores with rifles. They were defending their property and shooting anyone who tried to break in.

Good for them. To bad others in LA didn't do the same things. Shoot the bastards.

 

[DarkFury]

Laws did not make those Koreans equal. But guns did!

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Here you have an incident where armed citizens stopped democrats from looting and burning their stores.....because the people of Korea Town had guns....and the police left the scene....

25 years after LA Riots: Korean gun store manager speaks (VIDEO)

You really think these rioting morons were registered voters, huh ?!

That tends to indicate what your own I/Q level is as well.

The ones who were registered were democrats and the rest were defended by democrats.
Duh.

 

[miketx]

Here you have an incident where armed citizens stopped democrats from looting and burning their stores.....because the people of Korea Town had guns....and the police left the scene....

25 years after LA Riots: Korean gun store manager speaks (VIDEO)

You really think these rioting morons were registered voters, huh ?!

That tends to indicate what your own I/Q level is as well.

Why do you post about things you have no knowledge of? You know nothing about those people.