The dramatic pictures show korean americans taking up arms during the 1992 los angeles uprising when riots and looting erupted after four white los angeles police department officers were acquitted in the brutal beating black motorist rodney king.
Guy on roof during la riots.
Armed with a handgun and a cellular phone on the roof of his grocery store in the.
The 1992 los angeles riots are such an example of these generational riots and while most people know about the riots less known though quite well known at the time were the phenomenon of the so called roof koreans.
On march 3 1991 an amateur video recording showed motorist rodney king being badly beaten by los angeles police department officers during an arrest.
Left and right businesses were being burned to.
Indeed they seem to happen once a generation at least.
The outrage resulting from the acquittal of these police officers was the principal cause of the 1992 los angeles riots.
Unrest began in south central los angeles on april 29 after a trial jury acquitted four officers of the los angeles police department lapd for usage of excessive force in the arrest and beating of rodney king.
Twenty five years after the la riots.
The roof koreans were spontaneous self defense forces organized by the korean community of los angeles primarily centered in koreatown in response to violent and frequently racist attacks on their communities and businesses by primarily black looters and rioters during the los angeles riots of 1992.
Police left los angeles koreatown to burn during the 1992 riots.
During the la riots tens of thousands of people stormed the streets in a frenzy of looting and vandalizing.
Born in 1953 in lansing michigan reginald oliver denny was a 39 year old truck driver at the time of the attack.
