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.
Guy on roof during la riots.
The 1992 los angeles riots sometimes called the 1992 los angeles uprising were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in los angeles county in april and may 1992.
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.
Armed with a handgun and a cellular phone on the roof of his grocery store in the.
Born in 1953 in lansing michigan reginald oliver denny was a 39 year old truck driver at the time of the attack.
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.
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.
The outrage resulting from the acquittal of these police officers was the principal cause of the 1992 los angeles riots.
Left and right businesses were being burned to.
During the la riots tens of thousands of people stormed the streets in a frenzy of looting and vandalizing.
Police left los angeles koreatown to burn during the 1992 riots.
Twenty five years after the la riots.
The riots of the spring of 2020 are far from without precedent in the united states.
