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rooftop koreans
Rooftop Koreans or Roof Koreans refer to the Korean American business owners and residents during the 1992 Los Angeles riots who armed themselves and took to the rooftops of local businesses to defend themselves. The unrest in urban areas was sparked by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of Rodney King and resulted in rioting, and looting, along with widespread violence and arson throughout the city.
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The Guns of the L.A. Riots, 2025 & Reloaded
Sort of a tangent of an older, long running thread: https://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/the-guns-of-the-l-a-riots.345749/ If you were located in the City of Angels at the present, how would you have been prepared (food, water, energy, medical supplies, physical security, communications... -
Documentaries or footage of riots?
I've been looking about Youtube today on various archival footage and such related to the "long hot summer of 1967" incidents. As well as documentaries and footage of the Watts Riot. Which leads me to the question: any documentaries, talks, vintage footage, et al., that you found interesting...
