It was not only Bruce Lee who made Americans cry in the United States, but also South Koreans.
In the 1992 Los Angeles riots, African Americans bought all the way into Koreatown, and as a result, the Koreans had already set up guns on the roof, and they were like an army under the dispatch of the radio, and the firepower was fierce, so that the Africans cried and cried, so that the Americans still had palpitations when they mentioned "Koreans on the roof".
What lessons can we learn from this? Today we will talk about the "Koreans on the roof", your praise is very important to me.
The city of Los Angeles is a typical cosmopolitan metropolis, where beautiful people from all over the world gather, and during the miracle of the Han River, South Korea drove a large number of Koreans abroad in order to earn foreign exchange, and more than 750,000 Koreans took root in Los Angeles.
Although this is second only to the population of South Korea, for Los Angeles, Koreans are still a very small minority, Los Angeles is mainly Latino and African-American, and these two races are also the two ethnic groups with the highest crime rate, which can be said to be the purest West Coast.
These American Koreans did not have a good life, they could be said to have been poor and afraid at that time, so when choosing a foothold, they chose a location with relatively cheap rent, and the cheap rent area was next door to the African-American gathering place...
This group of Koreans just arrived, do not understand the local customs, there is no prejudice against Africans, with the continuous gathering and development of Koreans in the United States, a Korean city gradually took shape, Koreans got up early and ran their own small shops, and soon accumulated a lot of wealth.
However, their prosperity has aroused the jealousy of a large number of idle Africans, who believe that these hillbillys from East Asia work too hard, resulting in them not being able to find good jobs and squeezing their living space, so they are very dissatisfied with the Koreans.
To put it bluntly, I don't argue with myself, and I can't see others well.
And Koreans never pay attention to what "customer is God", customers have a good attitude, they smile and greet, customers have a bad attitude, they are not used to it. In the eyes of African-Americans, this has become a kind of discrimination, and most African-Americans look down on Koreans in their hearts and feel that the other party is not qualified to discriminate against them.
This is their sadness, being discriminated against instead of trying to justify themselves, but also discriminating against those who look better bullied. Latinos and Africans have high crime rates in large part because they are discriminated against, unable to do proper work, and end up in broken cans, with this discrimination passed down from generation to generation.
The South Koreans who warm up in Los Angeles are fine, although they are not accustomed to each other, but at least on the surface they seem to be harmonious, and in New York at the same time, the probability of Koreans being robbed and attacked is extremely high, perhaps because their appearance looks good and bullying, or maybe it is only because of prejudice.
The negative energy of prejudice will accumulate until it completely explodes.
Fast forward to the early 1990s, when the wave of unemployment exploded and people generally felt depressed and uneasy, this sentiment was extremely easy to detonate, and it was at this time that a video of white police officers over-enforcing the law was exposed.
Rodney
On the evening of March 2, 1991, Rodney, who had a serious violent tendency, drank heavily with his friends while on bail and drove on the highway, with a speed limit of 105 kilometers, and he soared to 185 kilometers.
Female patrol officer Merlanie immediately honked her horn to chase after the situation, but Rodney chose to continue to escape, and under the siege of more than 20 police cars in the follow-up, Rodney mistakenly entered a dead end, and his friend got out of the car with his hands held high to prepare for inspection.
However, Rodney provoked the female patrol police with filthy actions, and the female patrol officer had the right to open fire on the suspect who refused to cooperate, but Rodney did not carry a deadly weapon, and the female patrol officer did not want to cause trouble, so she chose to tolerate it.
At this time, the sheriff arrived with 3 subordinates and prepared to subdue Rodney with his bare hands, but Rodney was 1.9 meters tall and weighed 203, and there was not a single piece of fat on his body, and the 3 police officers were like children, and they were easily beaten by Rodney.
The sheriff took out the stun gun and tried to subdue Rodney, but the other party kept getting up and catching a police officer fat and beating him. In desperation, the three police officers took out their batons to avoid important parts and landed Rodney' body, and after the 33 sticks fell, Rodney finally begged for forgiveness, and the police officers also stopped moving.
The whole process was filmed by the residents of the nearby upstairs, the video was 81 seconds long, and the amateur photographer named George deliberately cut out the 3 seconds of Rodney's refusal to arrest at the beginning and the 10 seconds of the last begging for forgiveness, and sold it to the media at a high price.
The video was instantly widely disseminated, and the African-Americans were all angry, the crowd was indignant, and the long-accumulated conflicts between races had come to the brink of eruption.
They didn't know the cause and effect, they only saw white police officers beating a person who was already lying on the ground, and when the full version of the video was released, no one wanted to know the truth.
Rodney was not seriously injured after a hospital examination, but he immediately stepped on public opinion and demanded that the Los Angeles Police Department pay up to 56 million compensation and hold the 4 police officers involved criminally responsible.
The situation intensified, with four officers suspended for investigation and indicted the following year by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for "excessive use of force," which became key to quelling African-American anger.
But while everyone was waiting for the result, a dispute broke out in Korea, and the Koreans were also involved in the storm.
On March 16, 1992, a gunshot broke out in Koreatown, Los Angeles, opening fire on the proprietor of a Korean convenience store, and the dead woman was a black girl, and the dispute eventually developed into a war between Koreans and blacks.
On this day, 15-year-old African female high school student Natasha, in the convenience store opened by Koreans, stole a bottle of orange juice to prepare to slip, the boss lady Dou Shunzi found out, she sternly reprimanded, who knew that Natasha actually gave her three punches with her backhand, hitting the boss lady nosebleed.
The lady boss was already grumpy, and now she was even more angry, so she returned to the counter and took out a pistol, aimed it at Natasha, and then surrendered herself.
Here's the point: in court, the jury ruled doushunzi guilty of unmediated intentional homicide and recommended a sentence of 16 years in prison; However, the presiding judge, Joyce, believed that Dou Shunzi had a good credit record and was at best an excessive defense, so he sentenced Dou Shunzi to a fine of 500, 400 hours of community service, and a suspended sentence of 5 years.
This is definitely the most lenient judgment in a similar case. But this was undoubtedly a second injury to African Americans, and prosecutors appealed the results, but they were crushed and dismissed.
The African-Americans were even more indignant when they saw this result, gathering hundreds of people around the door of Doo Soon-ko's shop to hold up banners and shout slogans, many of whom demanded the expulsion of all Koreans, and the pain and resentment continued to ferment, and violent crimes against Koreans emerged one after another.
The outcome of Rodney's trial completely detonated the contradiction.
Natasha and Doru Junko
At 3 p.m. on April 29, 1992, the court acquitted the four officers who arrested Rodney on the spot, and the African-American community in Los Angeles instantly exploded, gathering at the entrance of the courthouse to protest loudly, more and more African-Americans took to the streets, and sporadic riots had begun.
The first to suffer were innocent passers-by, and the Africans began to smash passing vehicles, beat the driver, as long as the other party was not African-American, rushed up to grab the property, and then beat them fat, and every time they knocked down a person, they would shout: "Avenge Rodney!" ”
At 8:30 p.m., the riots began completely, dozens of Africans rushed into the police station building in an attempt to seize the guns, only to be driven away by the police, and soon lost, they could only rush to the residential area, they lit the palm trees on the side of the street, and rushed into the street shops without discrimination to start zero yuan, for details, you can refer to the final chapter of "San Andreas".
Many African-American bosses, in order to avoid looting their shops, spewed out two bold words on the walls: "Black Shop"! It means a shop opened by black people, but this is not useful at all, because Africans have long forgotten why they rioted.
Moreover, Latinos have long joined the ranks of robbery, and the number of rioters has not been less than 100,000, a large part of which is rushing to buy zero yuan, and people pushing shopping carts can be seen everywhere on the street.
Latinos are more thieves, only grab things and do not hurt people, Africans buy for zero yuan in the front, they follow behind to pick up leaks, even the soap and toilet paper in the toilet do not let go, in just a few hours, there are more than 400 stores with only four walls left.
But the most serious problem is that many gun shops have also been robbed by thugs, a large number of weapons and ammunition have flowed into the civilian population, and around 10 o'clock in the evening, the exchange of fire continues, and Los Angeles is almost completely paralyzed.
Koreatown, the closest to the African-American settlement, was undoubtedly the first place to be attacked, coupled with the still accumulated contradictions between Koreans and Africans, and the tense disputes that had just occurred recently, the attack on Koreatown was extremely fierce.
The South Koreans were terrified, but when they called the police for help, they found that the line had been cut off. They then discovered that a large number of police officers had been dispatched as early as the first time of the riot, and their destination was the rich area furthest from the center of the riot.
The Korean shopkeepers, who had been waiting for the police to arrive, were also angry, they had endured The African-American bullying for too long, and now in order to protect their only property, they decided to fight a decisive battle with the African-Americans.
After several shopkeepers contacted lawyers and learned that the use of firearms was legal for self-defense at this time, they quickly gathered forces, and the leaders of the community immediately set up an emergency command center, gathered people through the radio station, and conducted command and dispatch.
The owner of the gun shop took the initiative to open the shop, provided weapons and ammunition for his compatriots, and those who could fight raided the guys on the roof and occupied the commanding heights. There is no fighting force in the family, nor has it been abandoned, a death squad formed by young men, ready to respond to the battle, and if anywhere is attacked, they will immediately rush to the scene and fight the mob.
An unprecedented battle of prestige is about to begin.
Tens of thousands of African-American thugs poured hatred on Koreans, and when the rioters rushed into Koreatown, they did not pay any attention to Koreans, because in their eyes, Asians are cowardly and bullying, and other neighborhoods in Los Angeles can be easily taken by them.
However, what awaited them was the fierce fire of the Koreans, and even many Koreans rushed out of the store and fired wildly at the African-American thugs, the thugs were instantly pressed to the ground and rubbed wildly, and the exposure that first rushed into Koreatown was accurately killed, scaring the other thugs to turn around and run.
They never imagined that Asians, who looked weak and deceitful, could be so fierce. But they also did not hold their heads on this, but constantly looked for opportunities to infiltrate the city of Korea, and unlike the unorganized and undisciplined play of the rioters, the South Koreans used the radio as a means of communication to echo each other.
Each shop was assigned two heavily armed young men to guard against the infiltration of the mob, the Koreans were like little brothers, calm on the street, found the bad guys and decisively went to war with them, in the face of the ferocious attack of the mob, the Koreans did not flinch, nor panicked, but united, set up weapons on the roof to beat the thugs, playing a record of 1 for 44.
The result of such a disparity is not accidental, South Korea implements a compulsory military service system, adult men must serve in the military, receive military training, so the vast majority of American and Korean people have received professional military training, have the quality of soldiers, and also have a good grasp of the use of firearms.
Their gun ownership rate is as high as 70%, and their combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to that of unorganized African-American thugs. In order to protect their lives and property, Koreans took up arms and built barricades to wait.
The riots lasted until May 1, including the Marine Corps, the National Guard and the FBI, a force of more than 13,000 people, finally arrived at the scene to start labor, the South Koreans gave up their lives, in the response of the troops, chose to abandon the store evacuation, which also gave the mob the opportunity to rob and smash, when the South Koreans withdrew, the stores in South Korea were almost looted, and DooShunko's shop was directly destroyed by fire.
In the end, with the unremitting efforts of many parties, the biggest turmoil since World War II was finally put down.
During the unrest, there were about 3,600 arson incidents across the city of Los Angeles, more than a thousand buildings burned to ashes, and estimated property damage exceeded 1 billion. More than 2,300 stores in South Korea were affected, with a total loss of more than 400 million.
Most unfortunately, in this unrest, 63 people were killed and killed, 2383 people were injured to varying degrees, and nearly 20,000 people were arrested, of which Latinos accounted for 53%, Africans accounted for 33%, whites accounted for 11%, and twice as many people were booing.
Many people say that this riot is essentially a contradiction between black and white, but it was blocked by Koreans, and there is no doubt that the contradiction between Koreans and Africans cannot be reconciled, but in the West Coast culture that advocates violent aesthetics, Koreans used African-American methods to defeat African-Americans with violence, and became famous in World War I.
Not only African Americans, not all Americans should be afraid of "Koreans on the roof", and now that thirty years have passed since this storm, the bullet marks in the secrets of Los Angeles have not forgotten history.
Surely some people will ask, what are the Chinese doing when the Koreans are fighting? Because the African-American gathering place is the closest to Koreatown, and the Koreans are very hostile, so the center of gravity is also in Koreatown, and the Chinese gathering place is still some distance away from the two, blocked by Koreatown, so the situation at that time was far better than Koreatown, as for the specific situation, and how to deal with the same thing, I believe everyone has their own answers.
"The 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Koreans set up guns on the roof to shoot off, repelling black thugs and becoming famous in a war!" 》