Riveting Twitter Thread on the Infamous ‘Roof Koreans’ of the LA Riots Highlights Importance of the Second Amendment

“Over 5 days, more than 1000 buildings in the LA area were destroyed, and over a billion dollars worth of damage done. But guess which communities endured the storm with minimal damage and injury? That’s right. The store David and Richard fought from still stands today,” he continued.

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The elected representative of these people was and still is, I believe Maxine Waters

"During the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, armed Korean store owners stationed themselves on top of their shops to protect their property from looters and became known as the “Roof Koreans.”

"A riveting Twitter thread celebrated these brave heroes as the anniversary of the riots approaches.

"From April 29 to May 4 in 1992, rioters burned and looted everything in sight to protest the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers for excessive force in the beating of King. The riots left over $1 million in property damage. Reginald Denny, a white truck driver who stopped at a traffic light in the middle of the riots, was also pulled from his truck and beat nearly to death by a mob of rioters. His skull was fractured in 91 places.

"By the end of the rioting, 53 people were killed, including 35 from gunfire.

"While the riots were horrific, the “Roof Koreans” emerged as a testament to the bravery of their community and the importance of the Second Amendment." . . .   Video

Maxine Waters "fondly" remembers those days  . . . "Waters' history of calling the riots an "insurrection" dates back to the riots themselves.
" 'What I tried to do was take it out of the discussion of ‘these are just no good, crazy rioting people' and to talk about what I call an insurrection, which made a lot of white people mad," she recalled.
"In one famous incident of "insurrection" broadcast across the county, four men dragged truck driver Reginald Denny out of his cab and beat him within an inch of his life." . . .
"Another victim of the "insurrection" was 45-year-old Howard Epstein. As the Los Angeles Times reported, "Onlookers broke into applause when someone yelled that the dead driver was white."
"L.A.'s Korean-American community faced the brunt of the "insurrection" as a favorite target of the "rebels." 
"Over 2,200 Korean businesses were targeted for looting and violence, causing $400 million in damages." . . .