Actually the 1992 Los Angeles riots were caused by the beating of Rodney King...not the Floyd incident.
The riots truly were in need of military response. The area I live in was hit
very hard by the rioters and looters. The looters marched on supermarkets, all the stores...
stealing everything and breaking the glass windows and doors. They also were setting buildings on fire.
Because there wasn't enough police, the Korean store owners
had to get on their roofs with rifles to protect their stores!
The large department store my mom worked at sent everyone home because they heard the rioters were getting close. They already were looting our nearby supermarket.
They did break into the department store and took everything. Afterwards mom found a large crystal item laying on the sidewalk broken. It was a several hundred dollar item.
A truck driver, Reginald Denny, got stuck in an intersection and the rioters pulled him out of the truck and beat him up badly. He was hospitalized.
After six days of rioting when it was calmer, mom and a neighbor lady walked to a market. The neighbor lady was so nervous she had bought a gun and was carrying it.
I later found out that the police had cordoned off our area (Koreatown) with many rioters inside because they didn't want the rioters to go West.
I watched everything on TV...it was like the city was burning down.
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