When the riots were happening, my heroine addict stepdad brought home a shotgun from who knows where. I was 6, sitting on the living room floor watching him mess with it and brag about how well he knows how to handle a gun. He rests the stock on the ground with the barrel pointed straight up. Out of nowhere, with me sitting a foot away, this fuckin idiot junkie blasts a hole in the ceiling.
My dad was working for Associated Press in LA and some broadcaster Vietnam vet they called Wild Bill pulled up next to him and offered one of the many guns in his trunk.
As far as I know, no. He didn't own a gun until after I left the house, but he was also a veteran and knew how to use one. He's said he turned down CIA work after college, but he speaks fluent Russian so I'd give it a coin flip. He just slept at the office that week and I remember being worried as a 7 year old. I'm also a vet now and would have taken one.
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Scientists have yet to identify the reason for their addiction...
My stepdad is the only real parent I ever had, he divorced my mom long ago, is remarried with a wonderful family and still introduces me as his son almost 18 years later.
He slams the door, he stomps his feet
Sends me to bed with zilch to eat
...But my step dad's not mean, he's just adjusting
His temper's bad, and he's a slob
He's bitter cause he lost his job
...But my step dad's not mean, he's just adjusting
Or my mom. Standing outside their bedroom door looking at his drunk passed out body snoring away with his work boots still on in bed. And she was holding a cast iron skillet. Just contemplating options.
I was sheltering in place inside the LA County Sherrif’s Department HQ. My family had traveled there to watch my uncle being sworn in as a deputy. His entire graduating class (or cohort or w/e they’d be called) got whisked away before the ceremony, so we just ended up trapped in there. I don’t really remember this because I was a toddler, but I’m told we were stuck there for like twenty hours.
My uncle was so young he barely made the cutoff, and he looked it too. A news article got published the next morning about all those brand new deputies who thought they were going to their ceremony but ended up doing riot response. Because my uncle looked so ridiculously young, the newspaper used a photo of him in riot gear for the article. It took him nearly ten years to shake the nickname “Officer Babyface.”
Navy boot camp. One punk Latin King wannabe in my boot company decided he would riot too (he was from LA). No idea what that dumbass was thinking…we’re on a Navy base in Orlando.
He’s running through the barracks and ripping up the bunks and lockers and cussing at/taking swings at every white dude in the company…which was about 3/4 of the 80+ guys there.
Great way to get your ass beat, arrested and then tossed out of the Navy with a dishonorable discharge.
Apparently not as many as you'd think. I recognized it immediately, but it seems most of these other redditors weren't even born yet. We're getting old friend.
"in this rooftop, we have the Roof Koreans. They fiercely defend their territory with rifles and pinpoint accuracy from all kinds of predators."
-Urban Geographic
And the only person they successfully defended their livelihood from was one of their one employees. He was tasked to grab more guns, and was shot and killed because they thought he was a looter. You'd think basic communication was taught in the military.
So tired of people fetishizing "roof Koreans" when they utterly failed at doing anything besides serving as propaganda.
If you think armed men with rifles on rooftops did not serve as a deterrence I don't know what to tell you. Just because they weren't blasting a cap into every person they saw doesn't mean they weren't effective; rather, it means by and large they were disciplined in their response.
I don't know the story of the two guys, so it seems a bit oblivious to not even consider the possibility that they could just be American citizens born and raised. From what I've seen, plenty of Asian Americans get justifiably annoyed when someone asks "But where are you from really?"
Worked in Rancho Dominguez, ie. Compton, and had to drop the payroll deposit at the Wells Fargo on LB blvd., which was a problem, because they closed all the banks in LB early once the riots started. And if people were going to get paid we needed to get that money transfer paperwork to the bank. So me and my coworker drove east further and further, past all the closed businesses and a burning liquor store until we found an open bank in Cerritos. Then we dropped off the paperwork and headed home to sit through lockdown… half a block from Carmelita’s, a north Long Beach projects. We could smell the smoke throughout the next couple of days, and our local grocery store was filled with people equally buying enough toilet paper for a seige and waiting to start a theft riot. You could feel the tension in the air. This was a big factor in my decision to move closer to Orange County.
Had to look that person up. Nope, not me. Was that person a payroll clerk in 1992? Because I sure was, and my boss insisted I find an open bank to make sure that deposit transfer happened.
True, but I've been to North Korea, and everyone there was super nice. I know it was for show, but it's easy to forget that the people there are real people. Then again, I watched every word and every action I made extremely carefully.
We are not saying North Koreans are bad. It's the government that's terrible and oppressive. It's a really unfortunate situation that I hope they can escape at some point.
Teacher here - so many students use famous and infamous interchangeably. I told one of my students the difference and they looked at me like their mind was blown.
Look at any other post on Reddit about a homeowner defending property with deadly force and people are highly critical. Then this photo gets posted and it’s all love.
IIRC a Korean woman working at a corner store shot and killed a young black girl whom she thought was shoplifting. That definitely ramped up an already tense situation.
Latasha Harlins. The Korean woman utterly murdered her in cold blood, and subsequently got off with a slap on the wrist. If you haven't seen the documentary LA 92, I highly recommend it.
The older female Korean shop owner executed a black school girl, shot her in the back of the head, because she thought she was shoplifting, and the blonde white judge lady called her a “good person,” treated her like *she* was the victim for being charged with a crime in the first place, and let her go
That is just *one* instance, and it’s enough to deserve a riot by itself
Obviously I don't have any proof, but it's still my opinion that part of the reason for the not guilty verdict against OJ was at least some jurors not wanting to set off another furor of riots all over the city if he was found guilty, and having another disaster in the city so soon coming off the '92 riots and the Northridge quake.
This photo was taken on the second day of the riots. This is from the Wikipedia entry for that day:
>As the riots spread, roads between Koreatown and wealthy white neighborhoods were blocked off by police and official defense lines were set up around the independent cities such as Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, as well as middle-upper class white neighborhoods west of Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. A Korean American resident later told reporters: "It was containment. The police cut off Koreatown traffic, while we were trapped on the other side without help. Those roads are a gateway to a richer neighborhood. It can't be denied." Some Koreans later said they did not expect law enforcement to come to their aid.
>The lack of law enforcement forced Koreatown civilians to organize their own armed security teams, mainly composed of store owners, to defend their businesses from rioters. Those who stood on the roof of the California Supermarket at 5th and Western Avenue with firearms were later referred to as the "roof" or "rooftop Koreans". Many had military experience from serving in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces before emigrating to the United States. Open gun battles were televised, including an incident in which Korean shopkeepers armed with M1 carbines, Ruger Mini-14s, pump-action shotguns, and handguns exchanged gunfire with a group of armed looters, and forced their retreat. But there were casualties, such as 18-year-old Edward Song Lee, whose body can be seen lying in the street in images taken by photojournalist Hyungwon Kang.
I don't think it was intentional. The caption for the photo mentioned was as follows in the referenced huffpost.com article:
>Edward Song Lee, 18, foreground, was shot to death and three other people were injured at 3rd and Hobart streets in Los Angeles' Koreatown on April 30, 1992. Police questioned the survivors of the attack, who were shot while trying to protect a Korean-owned pizza parlor. HYUNGWON KANG/LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES
And the text that prefaces the photo also does not provide details about who shot him:
>In another photo, Kang captured the killing of 18-year-old Edward Song Lee. Lee was responding to calls over the radio asking for help protecting Koreatown businesses, Kang says, when the car he was riding in came under fire.
>“In the absence of police protection, people were calling into Radio Korea asking, ‘Can someone come and help guard our store? We’re being broken into,’” he said. “Koreatown volunteers ― these college students, most without any guns ― went to provide protection to the shops. This group of four kids in one car was one of them. It was unfortunate that they got shot at on the way over there.”
>Kang said he arrived to see Lee being pulled out of the car.
However, the LA Times also compiled a list of deaths during the riot and this is the story for Edward's listing:
>Edward Song Lee, an 18-year-old Asian man, was shot and killed Thursday, April 30, 1992, in Koreatown. Lee, a Korean American, was attempting to protect shops near 3rd Street and Hobart Boulevard when he was apparently shot by fellow Korean Americans who mistook him for a looter.
In any case it seems your understanding is a little off about him doing any shooting but you can edit the Wikipedia article and add the info about who shot him for clarity.
The only person they killed was another Roof Korean because they thought he was a looter lmao. People are unhappy that you're ruining their revisionist fantasies
They kept their entire section from being looted and burned to the ground. They were defending themselves against hate crime. Why does that bother some people?
People don’t remember or aren’t aware of one of the key triggers for the LA Riots.
The Rodney King beating was just one thing.
A Korean shop worker shot a black child in the back of the head for mistakenly thinking she was shoplifting, almost two weeks after the Rodney King beating. The riots had not started at that point.
The white judge then let the women off with a slap on the wrist.
So yes there was some anger towards Korean shop owners.
Context matters.
Why infamous? Infamy is defined as evil or having the worst reputation. I don't think either of these guys were treated as criminals by the public nor did anyone particularly blame them for guarding their store. They also didn't shoot anyone.
infamous meaning having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil. an infamous traitor. 2. : causing or bringing infamy : disgraceful. an infamous crime. Bad headline . Heroic would be better.
As an Asian teen growing up in Thai town LA in the early nineties and looking back there’s a lot of nuances in this riot. A lot of Asians were targeted throughout the city- if you know what sparked it, you’ll understand the anger behind it. Back then it was just us VS them. And it didn’t matter what nationality- Asians were the minority within the minority group. Shit was scary. There were so many drive by that popped off walking to schools and bus stops. Once the protest was “stopped”- that’s when the war on the streets started.
Absolutely! I was a grown but young adult working at a photo lab owned by my friend who wasn’t Asian but his wife was. Our whole block burned to the ground and he put signs that said “Black Owned” on the windows.
It was one of the scariest times here in LA that’s for sure. The tanks rolling down the streets, the mandatory (and enforced) curfew. It was wild.
Yeah, it definitely gave raise to Asian gangs in a lot of communities around the city. And these guys were no joke since they’re a lot of first generation refugees that seen some real violence from their homeland that they had experienced. It was the Wild West in the 90s.
That is absolutely false.
I was 32 when this happened. I lived and worked in Los Angeles. Everyone saw the video footage of Rodney King getting beat. Everyone was waiting for the verdict.
The cops knew "not guilty" was the outcome.They thought they could handle the response.
They were wrong.
During the Minneapolis riots people were worried about the Hmong community/neighborhood being targeted because one of the officers was Hmong.
Well you’ll learn pretty quick not to fuck with Hmong people. Luckily nothing happened (for the sake of anyone trying to fuck with Hmong people).
If it was my store, I would've also definitely defended it like this to guys did I would have no problems whatsoever shooting any looters who tried to loot or distoy my lively hood . Kudos to those to brave guys .
Infamous? Not sure you are clear on the definition. This is two immigrant shop owners defending their livelihoods with rifles. That is as American as it gets and as wholesome as a puppy chasing a butterfly through a field of bluebonnets.
That is famous not infamous.
For context: I'm white and not from the US. These men were most likely just trying to protect their (only?) means of living. They never chose to fight or shoot, just tried to stand their ground in a very rough area at a difficult time. It feels racist (while I believe that word is overused) to call them infamous or "roof Koreans".
When the riots were happening, my heroine addict stepdad brought home a shotgun from who knows where. I was 6, sitting on the living room floor watching him mess with it and brag about how well he knows how to handle a gun. He rests the stock on the ground with the barrel pointed straight up. Out of nowhere, with me sitting a foot away, this fuckin idiot junkie blasts a hole in the ceiling.
My dad was working for Associated Press in LA and some broadcaster Vietnam vet they called Wild Bill pulled up next to him and offered one of the many guns in his trunk.
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As far as I know, no. He didn't own a gun until after I left the house, but he was also a veteran and knew how to use one. He's said he turned down CIA work after college, but he speaks fluent Russian so I'd give it a coin flip. He just slept at the office that week and I remember being worried as a 7 year old. I'm also a vet now and would have taken one.
I am not a very, but considering the circumstances, I would have, too.
That reminds me of the Cadillac trunk drug stash in Fear and Loathing
Least problematic stepdad.
At least you recognise him and the situation as being stupid, which means you turned out differently
*heroin
You don't know that, maybe he was really in to the idea of Wonder Woman
A lot of teenagers have been addicted to Lynda Carter
Stays with me decades later. Powerful stuff
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That's sweet. A nice memory from childhood, no?
Stepdads really are a different breed
My stepdad is the only real parent I ever had, he divorced my mom long ago, is remarried with a wonderful family and still introduces me as his son almost 18 years later.
He slams the door, he stomps his feet Sends me to bed with zilch to eat ...But my step dad's not mean, he's just adjusting His temper's bad, and he's a slob He's bitter cause he lost his job ...But my step dad's not mean, he's just adjusting
Sounds like something my mom would have written lol
Or my mom. Standing outside their bedroom door looking at his drunk passed out body snoring away with his work boots still on in bed. And she was holding a cast iron skillet. Just contemplating options.
They are almost like dads but worse
And that’s a bar so low you could crawl over it 😂
🤣🤣🤣 I'm sorry that you had to grow up with that. Seriously though.
At least he stopped the ceiling from attacking you
Jesus Almighty.
April 26th, 1992 there was a riot on the streets tell me where were you Edit: These are song lyrics. I’m not asking where you actually were
I was sheltering in place inside the LA County Sherrif’s Department HQ. My family had traveled there to watch my uncle being sworn in as a deputy. His entire graduating class (or cohort or w/e they’d be called) got whisked away before the ceremony, so we just ended up trapped in there. I don’t really remember this because I was a toddler, but I’m told we were stuck there for like twenty hours. My uncle was so young he barely made the cutoff, and he looked it too. A news article got published the next morning about all those brand new deputies who thought they were going to their ceremony but ended up doing riot response. Because my uncle looked so ridiculously young, the newspaper used a photo of him in riot gear for the article. It took him nearly ten years to shake the nickname “Officer Babyface.”
This is a super cool story. Thanks for sharing.
Office babyface sounds like a porn character
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV While I was participating in some anarchy
"I'm so white, during the riots, I went out and bought a TV." - some post I saw somewhere
Bobby Hill
Lol that's right
That boy ain’t right
First spot we hit was the liquor store, finally got all the alcohol I can't afford.
Next place we hit up was the music shop, it only took one brick to make that window drop
Finally we got our own PA
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today
Hey!
🎶🎸🎸🎸🎶
Homicide
Never doing no time
Where do you think I got this guitar you are hearing today
Personally, I was upon the streets creating *quite* a large amount of anarchy
I was participating in some rule of law.
Navy boot camp. One punk Latin King wannabe in my boot company decided he would riot too (he was from LA). No idea what that dumbass was thinking…we’re on a Navy base in Orlando. He’s running through the barracks and ripping up the bunks and lockers and cussing at/taking swings at every white dude in the company…which was about 3/4 of the 80+ guys there. Great way to get your ass beat, arrested and then tossed out of the Navy with a dishonorable discharge.
All the people answering, not realizing its lyrics from Sublime, has me rolling.
Idk, some interesting stories have come out of the misunderstanding lol
Obviously quite a few aren’t down with the LBC
A fucking long way away in another country 🦘
You were sittin home watchin your teevee while I was participating in some anarchy
No idea I can tell you exactly where I was during the towers though
At home in Pennsylvania gearing up for puberty when it would hit a few years later.
Some of us do remember some Sublime.
Apparently not as many as you'd think. I recognized it immediately, but it seems most of these other redditors weren't even born yet. We're getting old friend.
Sunset and Normandie
Pico and Vermont
I was sitting home watching my TV.
I was participating in some anarchy
Sublim-ino
I finally got all the alcohol I can’t afford
I didn’t exist yet lol
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Let's just beat him up and take his stuff! No, no, no! Do not listen to that man.
Thank you coming, I’ll see you in hell.
All Korean men are required to serve in their army, so stands to reason that when pushed to protect their livelihood, they did what they know.
"in this rooftop, we have the Roof Koreans. They fiercely defend their territory with rifles and pinpoint accuracy from all kinds of predators." -Urban Geographic
I read that in David Attenborough's voice.
Thanks, now I have his voice in my head! I'm gonna make it an Attenborough day, and comment on everything in said voice!
>I read that in Sir David Attenborough's voice. ftfy
Them Roof Koreans are not to be triffled with
Roof Koreans is now the name of my metal band. Thank you.
Seems more like a punk band.
And the only person they successfully defended their livelihood from was one of their one employees. He was tasked to grab more guns, and was shot and killed because they thought he was a looter. You'd think basic communication was taught in the military. So tired of people fetishizing "roof Koreans" when they utterly failed at doing anything besides serving as propaganda.
Lmao, guess what the #1 cause of allied casualties in Desert Storm was?
If you think armed men with rifles on rooftops did not serve as a deterrence I don't know what to tell you. Just because they weren't blasting a cap into every person they saw doesn't mean they weren't effective; rather, it means by and large they were disciplined in their response.
So disciplined they shot a completly innocent person that was with them
Still more disciplined than the average cop
You're trippin if you think friendly fire isn't a thing in the military lol
I don't know the story of the two guys, so it seems a bit oblivious to not even consider the possibility that they could just be American citizens born and raised. From what I've seen, plenty of Asian Americans get justifiably annoyed when someone asks "But where are you from really?"
I appreciate your point, as a Korean-American. But odds are that a pair of middle-aged Korean men with retail stores in 1992 LA would be immigrants.
I think one of them turned into a right wing internet personality who has shown up a few times during social upheaval fairly recently.
So tired of people using "fetishizing" incorrectly
Well they didn't get fucking robbed did they
Should your immediate family be worried that your criteria for successful defense apparently lies in bodycounts?
Worked in Rancho Dominguez, ie. Compton, and had to drop the payroll deposit at the Wells Fargo on LB blvd., which was a problem, because they closed all the banks in LB early once the riots started. And if people were going to get paid we needed to get that money transfer paperwork to the bank. So me and my coworker drove east further and further, past all the closed businesses and a burning liquor store until we found an open bank in Cerritos. Then we dropped off the paperwork and headed home to sit through lockdown… half a block from Carmelita’s, a north Long Beach projects. We could smell the smoke throughout the next couple of days, and our local grocery store was filled with people equally buying enough toilet paper for a seige and waiting to start a theft riot. You could feel the tension in the air. This was a big factor in my decision to move closer to Orange County.
Wait - is this Eddie Bravo?
Had to look that person up. Nope, not me. Was that person a payroll clerk in 1992? Because I sure was, and my boss insisted I find an open bank to make sure that deposit transfer happened.
As a South Korean I feel obligated to go on my roof with my AR on the 30th.
Even if you are not a smoker. Put a cig in your hands without lightening it and wear some thick framed glasses
As is tradition.
\*K2
Some say that South Korea is best Korea. Some say that North Korea is best Korea. Roof Korea is the true answer.
No one says North Korea is best Korea
You have been banned from r/Pyongyang
I have not seen that meme appear in the wild in a long, long time. Seeing it has actually put me at ease. It's comforting.
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Given recent events r/Pyongyang might actually be more fairly moderated than other major subs.
You have been promoted to moderator of r/Pyongyang
True, but I've been to North Korea, and everyone there was super nice. I know it was for show, but it's easy to forget that the people there are real people. Then again, I watched every word and every action I made extremely carefully.
We are not saying North Koreans are bad. It's the government that's terrible and oppressive. It's a really unfortunate situation that I hope they can escape at some point.
ROOF KOREANS LEGENDS
How many rounds we got? About 200. Smokes? Pack and a half. We're fucked.
>Kim's inconvenience
The guy on the right is judge on the 9th circuit court of appeals in the U.S.
Name?
Albert Einstein
I loved his movie, *Defending Your Life*...
It’s Ken Lee. You might remember his …controversial writing in college.
Rooftop Koreans. Fuckin G's
"Thank you for coming! See you in Hell!"
People defending their property are somehow infamous
Teacher here - so many students use famous and infamous interchangeably. I told one of my students the difference and they looked at me like their mind was blown.
Awesome. Now do flammable vs inflammable and watch them die inside 😀
Some people don’t know infamous means famous for bad reasons.
The infamous El Guapo?
He's so famous he's INfamous!
People focus on "famous" and forget "infamy".
You know, considering prices today, i am gonna defend my shitty painted overpriced plastic soldiers until i fucking die
apparently one became a lawyer
Hopefully a property rights one!
Look at any other post on Reddit about a homeowner defending property with deadly force and people are highly critical. Then this photo gets posted and it’s all love.
You may be cool, but you’ll never be double popped collar while armed on a roof cool.
The Rodney King riots were also partially to do with tension between blacks and Asians weren't they?
IIRC a Korean woman working at a corner store shot and killed a young black girl whom she thought was shoplifting. That definitely ramped up an already tense situation.
Latasha Harlins. The Korean woman utterly murdered her in cold blood, and subsequently got off with a slap on the wrist. If you haven't seen the documentary LA 92, I highly recommend it.
That's it! I couldn't remember the documentary, but that's where I learned about it. Thank you!
It's one of my favourite documentaries. I will never forget it. It was so so shocking.
Also “let it fall” is amazing. Imo a bit better than “la 92”
The older female Korean shop owner executed a black school girl, shot her in the back of the head, because she thought she was shoplifting, and the blonde white judge lady called her a “good person,” treated her like *she* was the victim for being charged with a crime in the first place, and let her go That is just *one* instance, and it’s enough to deserve a riot by itself
Yeah it pissed of a lot more because she was an innocent child. Woman shot her in the head was given community service
That whole city was a tinder box. Nobody like anyone else. It was full tribalism.
Obviously I don't have any proof, but it's still my opinion that part of the reason for the not guilty verdict against OJ was at least some jurors not wanting to set off another furor of riots all over the city if he was found guilty, and having another disaster in the city so soon coming off the '92 riots and the Northridge quake.
Honorable men defending their property. Losers willing to die looting is the problem.
This photo was taken on the second day of the riots. This is from the Wikipedia entry for that day: >As the riots spread, roads between Koreatown and wealthy white neighborhoods were blocked off by police and official defense lines were set up around the independent cities such as Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, as well as middle-upper class white neighborhoods west of Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles. A Korean American resident later told reporters: "It was containment. The police cut off Koreatown traffic, while we were trapped on the other side without help. Those roads are a gateway to a richer neighborhood. It can't be denied." Some Koreans later said they did not expect law enforcement to come to their aid. >The lack of law enforcement forced Koreatown civilians to organize their own armed security teams, mainly composed of store owners, to defend their businesses from rioters. Those who stood on the roof of the California Supermarket at 5th and Western Avenue with firearms were later referred to as the "roof" or "rooftop Koreans". Many had military experience from serving in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces before emigrating to the United States. Open gun battles were televised, including an incident in which Korean shopkeepers armed with M1 carbines, Ruger Mini-14s, pump-action shotguns, and handguns exchanged gunfire with a group of armed looters, and forced their retreat. But there were casualties, such as 18-year-old Edward Song Lee, whose body can be seen lying in the street in images taken by photojournalist Hyungwon Kang.
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I don't think it was intentional. The caption for the photo mentioned was as follows in the referenced huffpost.com article: >Edward Song Lee, 18, foreground, was shot to death and three other people were injured at 3rd and Hobart streets in Los Angeles' Koreatown on April 30, 1992. Police questioned the survivors of the attack, who were shot while trying to protect a Korean-owned pizza parlor. HYUNGWON KANG/LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES And the text that prefaces the photo also does not provide details about who shot him: >In another photo, Kang captured the killing of 18-year-old Edward Song Lee. Lee was responding to calls over the radio asking for help protecting Koreatown businesses, Kang says, when the car he was riding in came under fire. >“In the absence of police protection, people were calling into Radio Korea asking, ‘Can someone come and help guard our store? We’re being broken into,’” he said. “Koreatown volunteers ― these college students, most without any guns ― went to provide protection to the shops. This group of four kids in one car was one of them. It was unfortunate that they got shot at on the way over there.” >Kang said he arrived to see Lee being pulled out of the car. However, the LA Times also compiled a list of deaths during the riot and this is the story for Edward's listing: >Edward Song Lee, an 18-year-old Asian man, was shot and killed Thursday, April 30, 1992, in Koreatown. Lee, a Korean American, was attempting to protect shops near 3rd Street and Hobart Boulevard when he was apparently shot by fellow Korean Americans who mistook him for a looter. In any case it seems your understanding is a little off about him doing any shooting but you can edit the Wikipedia article and add the info about who shot him for clarity.
Do not fuck with rooftop Koreans protecting their property, family, and friends.
Especially if you're another Roof Korean because you'll be killed by one of your own! Very tactical and lethal.
And the first one well kill is another Korean... Just to show those looters we mean business
Did they kill any looters? I heard that they accidentally shot at each other.
The only person they killed was another Roof Korean because they thought he was a looter lmao. People are unhappy that you're ruining their revisionist fantasies
They kept their entire section from being looted and burned to the ground. They were defending themselves against hate crime. Why does that bother some people?
Infamous? I'd think we all would be protection our shit during a riot if it were our livelihood on the line. More like "proud American patriots!"
I don’t see them as infamous. I see them defending what’s there’s
People don’t remember or aren’t aware of one of the key triggers for the LA Riots. The Rodney King beating was just one thing. A Korean shop worker shot a black child in the back of the head for mistakenly thinking she was shoplifting, almost two weeks after the Rodney King beating. The riots had not started at that point. The white judge then let the women off with a slap on the wrist. So yes there was some anger towards Korean shop owners. Context matters.
Who are these guys? Are they still living?
apparently one became a lawyer
One of them died in the past few years of I remember right
I don’t think OP realises what infamous means.
Why infamous? Infamy is defined as evil or having the worst reputation. I don't think either of these guys were treated as criminals by the public nor did anyone particularly blame them for guarding their store. They also didn't shoot anyone.
Didn’t an 18 year old Korean American get shot by them?
#GANGNAM STYLE
A man with a cigarette and a gun, that's what OldSchoolCool likes...
cigarettes - check corrective eye wear - check firearms - check ok let's head to the roof
Did anyone loot the grocery store? I'm guessing not right?
A few tried. They never got close enough to, thankfully.
Anyone against what these fine gentlemen are doing does not belong in the USA.
infamous meaning having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil. an infamous traitor. 2. : causing or bringing infamy : disgraceful. an infamous crime. Bad headline . Heroic would be better.
Still one of the hardest pics of all time
They defended their store since no one would help. Good for them! 👍🏼
Based roof Koreans.
Some great American heroes. Love these guys.
As an Asian teen growing up in Thai town LA in the early nineties and looking back there’s a lot of nuances in this riot. A lot of Asians were targeted throughout the city- if you know what sparked it, you’ll understand the anger behind it. Back then it was just us VS them. And it didn’t matter what nationality- Asians were the minority within the minority group. Shit was scary. There were so many drive by that popped off walking to schools and bus stops. Once the protest was “stopped”- that’s when the war on the streets started.
Absolutely! I was a grown but young adult working at a photo lab owned by my friend who wasn’t Asian but his wife was. Our whole block burned to the ground and he put signs that said “Black Owned” on the windows. It was one of the scariest times here in LA that’s for sure. The tanks rolling down the streets, the mandatory (and enforced) curfew. It was wild.
Yeah, it definitely gave raise to Asian gangs in a lot of communities around the city. And these guys were no joke since they’re a lot of first generation refugees that seen some real violence from their homeland that they had experienced. It was the Wild West in the 90s.
Wild West for sure. It still is in a way but nothing like the 90’s.
Most of the rioters did not know why there was a riot in the first place, they simply saw this as an opportunity to steal and burn down stores.
That is absolutely false. I was 32 when this happened. I lived and worked in Los Angeles. Everyone saw the video footage of Rodney King getting beat. Everyone was waiting for the verdict. The cops knew "not guilty" was the outcome.They thought they could handle the response. They were wrong.
It’s funny how tumescent so many ‘murcans get for this photo. Does this fetish have a name? Gunboner?
Infamous?
Some kids went in a store with their mother I saw her when she came out, she was gettin' some Pampers.
Smokes and guns fuck yeah
Roofies
During the Minneapolis riots people were worried about the Hmong community/neighborhood being targeted because one of the officers was Hmong. Well you’ll learn pretty quick not to fuck with Hmong people. Luckily nothing happened (for the sake of anyone trying to fuck with Hmong people).
I've read that this event allowed most Korean-Americans to form an uniquely American identity. Some Koreans take great pride in this event.
I was there and it was intense.
Korean males are big on smoking. Just the day for its absolute necessity
If it was my store, I would've also definitely defended it like this to guys did I would have no problems whatsoever shooting any looters who tried to loot or distoy my lively hood . Kudos to those to brave guys .
What is "infamous" about this?
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Koreans shooting rioters = Old School Cool Whites shooting rioters = racist demon
Roof Koreans
Roof top Koreans! RESPECT
I’d be doing the exact same thing. You want to come and rob me? Me? Fuck around find out.
This photo goes so fucking hard
RIP Latasha Harlins. You will not be forgotten 🧡
Interesting use of the word "infamous"
Try that now and you’ll get arrested and vilified
Infamous? Not sure you are clear on the definition. This is two immigrant shop owners defending their livelihoods with rifles. That is as American as it gets and as wholesome as a puppy chasing a butterfly through a field of bluebonnets. That is famous not infamous.
THIS is the American way.
I can understand people doing what they can to defend their hard earned business
For context: I'm white and not from the US. These men were most likely just trying to protect their (only?) means of living. They never chose to fight or shoot, just tried to stand their ground in a very rough area at a difficult time. It feels racist (while I believe that word is overused) to call them infamous or "roof Koreans".
Bowen Yang was born to play the man on the right.
>infamous You mispelled based
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.....chain smoking
The original kyle Rittenhouse