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Originally posted by Morgeruat:
I remember asking during the riots that followed the Rodney King trial why the rioters destroyed and looted their own neighborhoods, they weren't harming those they thought were oppressing them, they were only making their own bad neighborhoods worse, I've been asking myself the same questions for the last 9 days.
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If we're looking at LA in 1992 as a reference, it should be pointed out that this is missing something important, and Johnny's link doesn't add anything about it either. 'It', of course, is that it was Korean business owners who took the brunt of that riot, even being hit when hispanic and white-owned businesses next door were left alone. All three were terrorized, and certainly were among those murdered, but that Koreans took the brunt is apparently little known. In the immediate area of their neighborhoods, those business owners were seen as individually oppressing. Rioters
were harming those they saw as oppressing them, and they murdered and injured many. Riots have causes and rioters have motives. France would do well to figure out what those are as soon as possible, you know, after the fires stop.
This, being from the Christian Science Monitor, is a bit sappy, but looks at it from a black and Korean perspective:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0429/p01s07-ussc.html
It also has a timeline that shows LA has a few more race riots under its belt.
This is about LA Koreans specifically:
http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp...m?newsid=79441
This isn't great on 'why' questions, but good on 'how' questions. It also links to some accounts of military strategies. It should be noted that most guardsmen had no training at all in riot control, and were trained right then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots