How Roof Koreans Took Back Los Angeles... (ft. donut operator) 

The Waco siege would be interesting.

Ruby Ridge would be nice if you haven't done it yet or Shawn Nelson's tank rampage

Sagon Penn and San Diego PD

Ft. Polk, Louisiana helicopter bank robbery

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Another guy in the comments said that too, wonder if y’all knew each other?

@@PisaniProductions there’s a lot of Korean Americans, and lots of Koreans that took place

@@PisaniProductions I mean its always a possibility, but the army is a big place.

@@boatznhoez1095 the army actually feels really small when you're in it, meet alot of the same faces all over the world

@@johnychrist5475 thats fair, but ive been out for a little over ten years now and once you add veterans and prior service it gets a bit harder to say yeah I know that guy without some specifics

His business was one of many looted and destroyed during the riots as well

"Stop acting white"

Such a chilling video to watch. A man born with nothing built something for himself then destroyed by the people in his community

I'll never forget watching it as it happened. Terrifying, and somewhat new back then. Now it's an everyday occurrence it seems.

That black man had internal white supremacy and was violently fighting a "mostly" peaceful protest. Joking by the way.

Same! I thought they were so brave and frankly they just looked so cool! DAEBAK! 😎

In other country police would have stopped the riot.

As an Asian dude from the other side of the coast, I was proud that these Koreans bear arms to protect theirs. I was 10, a week from my 11th birthday and this was all over the news. My dad was glued to the TV. We experienced hate crime from them in the 80s and wasn't surprised what was going on in LA. They broke our window twice and smoke bomb our house. Parents thought the house was on fire, rushing us out. I was just a toddler then. They would sit on their porch laughing at us panicking. Then they would assault us when we called them out. Even striking the children. They had no mercy, no moral values.

Borrrrrrrinnnnnng

There were Roof Top Mexicans with Roof Top Koreans at 9:17

Since Korean is a language isolate, you can't know other regional languages like Mandarin or Japanese, and understand ANYTHING they're saying, either.

Well said!

@@ChemAndAdrenalinethats a good point. Same reason only Hungarians can understand anything Hungarian lol

Rioters when the roof speaks korean: 🫨😳

Never thought of that. Brilliant observation!

My son is a sheriff deputy and he says keeping the peace only works until people decide they don’t want to anymore. It’s a kind of illusion people have bought into. As soon as a situation like this happens where thousands of people decide to riot nothing will stop them. You can bring in the national guard and start mowing people down I suppose. But when people cross the line into a riot of this capacity you best get the hell out.

In 2005 the supreme court ruled the police have no duty to protect. Which is why we need full automatics.

@@kevinb1096 Full-Automatics are hard to control though. Semi-Auto works just as well. You need decent training to operate a Full-Auto weapon.

@@wolfenrichtophen6010 it ain't about being accurate. If you're surrounded 50 to 1. You're just going to spray. I turned down the wrong street when the stuff was popping off in Baltimore and I almost got surrounded. Semi auto wouldn't have helped me out if I got stopped.

Was just thinking the same thing. The police are here to protect the status quo nothing more. When shit hits the fan they won't be out to serve you.

Did they save their stores? How many people did they shoot?

@@markraymond7235 Only one or two stores actually shot at anyone

that's badass man. what a place to grow up. I watched this safe and sound in Canada thanking God we didn't have slavery here.

The man taught you why you call him daddy, and it ain't just cause he's your father lol. Respect to your family.

Respect

Amazing story and the pride hits me for sure. In one of the videos where they interviewed David, he said the Koreans would try to shoot around the rioters/looters to scare them off. He specifically said they didn't want to hit them (unless they had to) so they were missing on purpose. Thanks for your service

@@tomnguyen8546 No thanks necessary. I enjoyed my job.

@@scout3058 I have 10 years left and it's been the best decision I've ever made

The reason there wasnt stacks of looter bodies is because those koreans had honor and understood that the looters were americans too. I wish i could say the same for many of americans that are native born who just want an excuse to kill.

@@tomnguyen8546 Good on you, brother! Stay frosty!

Great, now Tell your people to leave crime alone.

@@Vance-w7n People rioting after the verdict were expressing outrage, the people looting in Koreatown days later were opportunists of many ethnic backrounds. Notice how he gives a shout out to the singer from Sublime who was singing about his looting in Long Beach?

Wyte supremacy doesnt pay, lopk at the responses to your comment and look at their channels

​@@Vance-w7nblack isnt a nationality and africa isnt a country

@@HH-bv9is 13% causing 50%

Too bad we don't consider our morals and the general health of our nation to be our property. Now everyone thinks as long as they've got THEIR lifted pickup, everything's peachy. We kinda got had on the EXTREME focus on material wealth as a sign of prosperity. Obviously property rights is a foundational part of any functioning civilization, but we forgot everything else. If we hadn't, these riots wouldn't have even happened. And I don't mean that King would have been treated more fairly. In fact, he was treated just fine. A good beating for causing all that goddamn trouble is a small price to pay and frankly more humane than 20 years in jail.

I agree with defending ones land... but America is literally unlawfully taken land 😂

@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY had me in the first half, really lost me in the second

I was there visiting a friend during these riots, the whole apartment complex I was staying at went out to the street with bats, swords, crow bars, one guy had a bow and arrow...it got nasty,was a war zone, everyone got hurt.... I saw the Korean guys on the buildings down the street...the mob moved towards us....it was bloody... you have no idea how bad it was...

Well let them own businesses in your communities.

There are numerous Crips testimonies, saying that they bought their guns from the police, and MS13 stands for Mason with the occult number 13 attached to it - yes, all these gangs work for their Masters in the US Government and US Authorities, who are predominently Freemason members being the top gang on the food chain. Total intel on the enemy within in RU-vid video "The Swiss Beast - Home of the Devil; Part 1 Nazi-Templars" also on channel Giureh. We are being ruled by a foreign power, that has become domestic and has taken over all key positions in society.

@S Because that Korean lady shot a black girl in the back after a robbery i believe? It was right during the Rodney King verdict

@Somebody Same problem in South Africa.

I don’t condone Koreans being targeted, but You do know why, right?

@@SuiSSe-Torture-Prisonniers-CH yeah the problem with black appear when they leave africa

Nothing but facts brother 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This we will defend!

Y’all love black people getting smoked, not surprised

Heck yeah!

Some 300,000 South Koreans rotated through the Vietnam war. Say one was in Vietnam in 1970 at the age of 20, he'd be about 45 in 1992.

Simple: They're operating on emotions, not logic. A lot more people these days are raised to act on their emotions and not think of the consequences. Riots are just one of the results of that.

Stupid is as stupid does. It's always the undereducated people.

If you listen to the song by ice cube , there was a lot of racial animosity between blacks and Koreans. The blacks viewed the Koreans as invaders (sound familiar ?). This was also summarized in the opening scenes of John singleton film “Boyz in the ‘hood”

Exactly, why would you loot the grocery store in your own neighborhood? Now you financially impacted the business, and you've created a food desert.

just opportunists that justify their criminal behavior under the guise of a cause

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ku2PzKWFPvg.html It’s finally here

For real. Was a powerful condemnation

I got goosebumps when I saw that part. Just those few lines were powerful and moving because of the emotion in that man’s voice and face

Yet his words, as heartfelt as they were, fell on deaf ears.

@@HorrorUberAlles crab bucket in full effect

I agree. That reference to north Koreans was way off. These were all south Koreans

How ppl think they are North Korean?

Agreed. All of them are South Koreans

Koreans were the best trained troops in nam. Absolute hero.

racist police

Yet we want to close our borders

Annnnnnnd i was right lol typical trash. On March 16th 1991, 15 year old Latasha Harlins walked into Empire Liquor in LA just before 10 a.m. With money in hand, she put a $1.79 bottle of orange juice in her back pack. The store owner, Soon Ja Du, saw this and accused the little girl of stealing. When Latasha walked up to the counter to pay for the orange juice, Soon snatched Latasha up by her sweater and began pulling at Latasha's backpack. Latasha, again.. 15.. struck Soon two times causing Soon to let Latasha go. Soon then angrily thre a stool at Latasha.. who is, again.. 15. Latasha picked up the bottle of juice that had dropped on the floor durring the scuffle and handed it to Soon, who snatched it from Latasha. Latasha turned and walked away. She got about three feet before Soon blew Latasha's brains out with a revolver.. over $1.75 orange juice.. that Latasha intended to purchase. At trial, Soon said she feared for her life. Soon said it was self defense to shoot a 15 year old child in the back of the head when she is walking away from you. The jury found Soon guilty of voluntary manslaughter, an offense that carries a maximum prison sentence of 16 years. However, the trial judge, Joyce Karlin, sentenced Soon to five years of probation, 10 years of suspended prison, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine. A state appeals court later unanimously upheld Judge Karlin's sentencing decision, 3-0, on April 21, 1992, about a week before the LA riots. In July 1992, the Harlins family was awarded $300,000 in settlement.. after lawyer fees.. burial costs... Soon Ja Du MURDERED a 15 year old CHILD and never lost a DAY of freedom. Moreover, the way the Asian community had been treating the black community in Los Angeles before this specific incident was deplorable at best. So, with ALL disrespect, FUCK "saigu".. FUCK April 29th.. FUCK this bullshit ass narrative that they push.. Korean store were targeted because of what the fuck they did. Period. Tell the whole fuckin story if you gon tell it.

Great comment😉

Faxcts

Facts. If you want to try it be prepared to get tried 🙏

Bottom-Up will always be more effective than Top-Down

Power to the people

They fixed that now..

The police are not there to protect you

did we watch the same video, or did you forget that their was riots and fires everywhere

Crazy you was there lol but the Mexicans was riot with the blks ppl lol they was the only ones in China Town rioting lol it’s okay those there know it wasn’t over Rodney King.

I'm sorry that you went through all that as a child. I hope you are doing well now. God Bless You. :)

@@URangryX Thats is very nice of you to say to the young fella :)

@@albertchavez2693 the young fella is 44 years old

@@slipperylatex872 LMAO

His name is David Joo, but I agree.

@@성이름-p9t6t done editing it. Thanks for the correction. 😄😄

mad respect to them all. those rooftop koreans are badass and took action when needed WITH HONOR

I remember seeing the photo in the La Times of those Koreans atop that store that was mentioned in this video. It is a time honored tradition, 'looters will be shot'.

지금도 그짓하고 있어요.

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

American media protects blacks at all cost

No, they not Americans - this brainwashed patrioty is a real problem - like standing every morning in front of a flag and swearing alliance to it. There was a nation in Europe back between 1939 and 1945 what used to do that, and nowadays you only find this happening in North Korea and China. This people were immigrants defending their new homes because unlike the rich, fat west, they know what it means losing what you worked hard for and they just decided, not again, not today.

Watched this stuff from the east coast live...... there really was a clusterfuck going on with news coming in. It really wasn't until well after it was all over that we started to get a proper idea of what happened. And yeah, taking up arms to defend your family, friends and possessions.... I wouldn't presume to say that only Americans do this (we saw good people in South Africa defending their communities from rioting scum in a very similar manner not long ago), but that said this still sounds damned American to me. Interesting side note: a few months back after asking my mother if she remembered the roof Koreans and finding out she did not. I started to ask everyone I knew irl, both thoese who were old enough to see it go down and people too young to have done so..... and almost nobody remembered the roof Koreans.

They were not true Americans most of them were here illegally and were a bunch of cowards and liars. When the uprising started they placed "Black-owned" in their business windows which is the reason why the true resident of the community lashed out for being condescending and thoughtless, not to mention the countless years of blatant racism they cast out towards the community. Those Koreans didn't even live in the neighborhood most lived 45 minutes to an hour away from either the valley, Eagle Rock, or Korea town. They didn't care about the people of the community. The only thing they cared about was money. If you were black and going into one of their businesses the first thing you heard was "Hurry up and buy". They were very rude and sneaky. One time my grandmother took her car to a Korean mechanic to get a CPU replaced, the mechanic instead of replacing it with a new he tried to slide in an old one that was laying in the shop trying to pawn it off as a new one. I told him to get a new one or im going to report you. He had the nerve to get upset because he got caught. While ranting his exact words were " Go away, get out my shop, I hate you monkeys" that's a day in the life of your "True Americans"

alot of those "true americans" couldnt speak a lick of engish but okay

@@whitedom2041 Doesn't matter. They defended their property. Every citizen here, english speaker or not, is an American.

Also a good example of how standing up for yourself will gain you more respect than cowering in the long run.

They are American as fuck!

The Chad diversity VS the virgin evil diversity

​@@Tommy-Lo Except after the riots the city had some if them arrested and weapons confiscated.

@@90whatever Yep. Which is disgraceful and adds to the list of government and police failure. Still, better to be arrested than deceased.

Your a South Korean that's why you saying this

@@मालिक-य2य No it's not. It's an objective and verifiable fact that most Koreans in LA, especially those on the rooftops were South Koreans. There are very few North Koreans living in the US because they can't freely emigrate or even travel unlike South Koreans

@@성이름-p9t6t You must be of Korean ethnicity. If you look more closely into the history of the country of your heritage, and read about what happened with the partition of Korea into North and South, followed by the Korean War, you will understand that many modern day South Koreans actually originated from the northern part of Korea, and either fled to the South after 1945 when the Soviet Army had invaded North Korea in the latter days of WWII, resulting in the partition of Korea into a North Korea controlled by the Communists, and a South Korea occupied by the US Army, or, they fled to the South during the chaos of the war, before the war ended in a ceasefire and the DMZ was established. The Korean war was a back and forth affair, like the tide sweeping in and out, with the North Korean army first invading South Korea, taking Seoul, and pushing the remnants of the South Korean army and US forces all the way down to the southern tip of Busan, before reinforcements from the US and United Nations arrived to push the North Koreans back up north again, taking Pyongyang and crossing the Yalu River. At that point, China sent a huge PLA force of over 100,000 soldiers sweeping in from the mountains to surprise the US/ UN forces on Thanksgiving Day 1950 and drove the US/UN and South Korean Army forces back down South again. A large number of North Koreans who had now seen what Kim Il-Sung's Communism was like decided then to flee south with the retreating US/UN forces. The rest of the war went back and forth around the 38th Parallel, and the border was finally fixed at the Ceasefire lines in 1952 which became the DMZ. During that time, many Korean families were torn apart, as some were able to flee from the north to the south, and others either were not able to do so, or chose to stay in the north. So, yeah, I caught that line about Koreans fleeing from the North also, and thought about it, and yes, it's actually true. A lot of South Koreans are from families that were originally from the North, and had fled during that chaotic time period. Fleeing from the North, to the South, of course, became much, much harder once the Kim regime had established its control over North Korea after the war and hardened the DMZ into a heavily mined and guarded and very difficult to cross barrier.

​@@मालिक-य2य during the Vietnam war South Korea was also involved in special forces sector. The North Vietnamese and the Vietcong called them tigers for how ruthless they were. Also the majority of South Korean men served for three years in the South Korean for a minimum of three years. He's not saying this just because he's Korean he's saying this because it's factual.

​@@मालिक-य2यhei malik, speak after serving military

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

Mhmm sure you were…and then you woke up 😂

@@damiion666 how u know that

@@mxverick69 because I’m god

@@damiion666 true

​@@damiion666 yeah "definitely"

That's a neat trick for enhanced stealth.

Man, That's crazy stuff. I only wish we had half the National Guard AND Citizen Response to each riot and every night of looting that have occurred over the last couple of years. What we got was great, but Not enough to become a deterrent.

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

They were not known for being good people

Say it again for the police in Vegas, Texas, and Florida.

When seconds count the police are minutes away.

The true lesson is to keep guns

Welcome to calling the police when you're Black

also, don't give up your guns 💪

Naw because the democrats what the rioters to succeed

One notch below our biggest threat - government tyranny.

@@joemontano71 owning a gun isn't going to do a goddamn thing against government tyranny these days bud

@@jarrah580 Telephone tough-guy.

@@joemontano71 im pro gun but honestly owning guns wont do anything against the government and its 800 billion dollars of yearly military spending

The riots were planned and set to happen just like the blm terrorist riots we have. The government hates nothing more then citizens defending themselves.

I fully agree here, the entire world needs to be shown just how little the Government gives a fuck about any of us, that they would try and drag people through the wringer for picking up the slack when they were abandoned. God, that makes me absolutely *_Livid._*

@@odin1185 our society is ass backwards. The parallel to the LA riot and the Rittenhouse case is similar. Not to mention how in Texas school shooting the cops just stood there for 40 mins. They even arrested a mom that tried to go in I believe.

yes he should have shown that too! that was the most disgusting part, and the part which most clearly showed the true colors of USA system.

@@mdiesel23 just broke today, that the police and us marshals stopped the funeral home worker from going after this guy before he even got into the school.... Smfh... The whole situation in Uvalde smells like the swamp sacrificed these children to push their political great reset agenda

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

Facts.

The thing is they don’t know the reason the riots happened. Sadly they don’t know the treatment of US systems upon blacks, brown, yellow, and many other underserved groups for many years. You forget that literally 20 years before these riots you had state governments literally justifying violence, discrimination, and poverty against certain groups through their policy. You had cops syndicates that targeted certain groups on purpose. Many stories of white mob groups fighting segregation, civil rights, and equity against other groups. Politicians calling black women “welfare queens”. Cutting back social programs that mostly poorer people relied on. De-unionizing the labor section, segregating housing and so much more. All of these were the reasons these riots happened and why they exploded so big. The history matters. While these “roof top Koreans” were looking out for their businesses, many probably don’t know the violent US histories and how that literally caused these riots. We can either focus on the responses to a problem caused by a problem, or fix the problem at its roots to prevent there being another “riot”.

This is why Koreans come to America, for freedom! Like having pepper spray is a crime on majority of Asian countries

I came to the comments hoping someone felt the same way about these brave ass Koreans as me lol. Pretty sad when foreigners defend and uphold what our country was founded on more so than those that are born in said country..

they are koreans. Born and raised and trained in Korea. Koreans are territorial, they just won't let you just come and destroy their shit. It might be good to have people like that in the USA, it is actually 100% good, but they are not american.

The LAPD did pretty much the same thing as the Uvalde cops. Set up a perimeter around South Central to prevent the riots to spread to the suburbs. They let the city burn which was expected, that's why their inactions were not gone after. You should have seen the Rampart police station, they literally made a fortress

I favor gun control but I agree with your assessment. Ppl should definitely have the right to defend themselves, this was not lost on the Koreans that day, but I feel it HAS been lost on today's Americans...the right to defend your life is invaluable but to take another's on a whim, is not a right, nor a privilege, it SHOULD be an exception, but this country has gone mad...

your right, they literally formed a well regulated militia with a command center and everything.

It's there to defend ourselves against the state as well, if necessary. So long as the 2nd Amendment stands they can't do absolutely whatever they want. It's a constant thorn in their side. They cannot stand the idea of individuals being able to defend themselves. They'll never have true absolute power so long as the private sector is armed. They're already far more powerful than they were ever intended to be but the 2A helps to keep it contained.

Its to fight against tyranny

IKR? What the hell is he talking about them being N.Koreans lol

@@nato2227not really. It’s just the fact that there is barely no korean American who’s from north korea.

Wellllll North Koreans have mandatory military training for men and women too

There are North Korean defectors who've fled the country and who have since settled down and had families. But I highly doubt there were any Koreans from the north involved in this. Maybe one, at most.

5:50 mark. If you listen to the narration, he said some had escaped North Korea into South Korea before coming to the US.

Shooting in Uvalde Texas has shown that the police are not here to protect you or your children.

When seconds count, the police aren't coming. NOBODY is coming. Unless it's the men creaming their pants from smoking a bunch of pedophiles

Right and look what happened to LA in 2020 what a mess I don’t think we are ever gonna recover because it’s been engineered to be that way unfortunately

I was there in 92. A week later I purchased my first AR-15. It was during the riots I realized an "assault" weapon is used to REPEL an assault, not instigate one.

Reginald Denny comes to mind

If they were innocent why would they get beaten?

Holbrook, because those rioters are fucking crazy and stupid. They took their rage on everything but the 4 officers involved with Rodney King.

@@HolbrookStark do you enjoy having autism?

I’m just waiting for the some leftist jackass to be like “but they have insurance!” like all of the f***tards with literally zero understanding of reality did during the 2020 riots

It's always the Asians that are the scapegoats You want to talk about racism? How about discrimination against the Asian people?

Well, wikipedia has a killing of a girl by a korean store owner before the riots as one of the reasons for the riots

@Jerry Lee that’s what they do. It’s their job. To create division while running cover for the super rich people Kanye was talking about. If you pay close attention these days the m e d 1 a is racist against whites, against blacks, against Hispanics etc etc etc. They deliberately make everyone fee angry & bitter towards other groups to keep us divided.

That is not true. White men LOVE Asians. They help you people, and integrate you people into their systm. 🇲🇽🇷🇺

The blacks and Hispanics not only targeted the Koreans; but they targeted other black and hispanic business owners too. This was a riot of criminals vs law abiding citizens. Hats off to those Koreans who took up arms. The right to bear arms shall not be infringed!

@@coolgamers2794 yup, just like in the beginning of the video of the black shop owner screaming at the top of his lungs as his shop was made from the ground up burnt to the ground, a man that got out of the ghettos to pursue a better life to have his entire livelyhood burnt away buy their own fellow african me. That one almost brought men to a tear.

i love this story!

Is your cousin johny kim ? Korean american born in L.A , Navy seal former that become doctor and NASA astronaut ?

u people kill Latasha Harlins !!!

@@MrMerzi007 No lol I'm kinda glad he's not or my mom would've been comparing me to him my whole life.

Off topic, but I'm a 15 yr old Korean who dreams to live in NYC is it good there?

I felt exactly the same way. It's inspiring to see people coming together to help each other

Holy shit touch some grass. Defending a home isnt something hard to do.

2nd Bn/9th Marines we’re sent to LA with armored personal carriers. That’s how bad it got.

@@batmanv.hendustan7506 OK send me your address and let's see

@@batmanv.hendustan7506 lmao are you 16?

That’s the 2nd amendment for you

Sorry, but, what part of this was well regulated? This is why you kill each other so much, you don't even understand what The words "well regulated" mean. Don't worry the rest of the world is disgusted with Americans right now, you are a first world country with third world values......... Every day I hear someone talk about how America is turning into a 3rd world, you have the right wing taking away your freedoms, basically pissing on you and calling it rain. Then you have the left wing too spineless to do literally anything, so your country is just regressing and returning to an unstable unsuccessful 3rd world nobody.....

No, it's not. The National Guard is.

National Guard was too slow. It’s never ready at a moments notice anyway. I’ll take the Koreans any day.

@@tomwithey711 the national guard is very very much an extension of the army, you would be hard pressed to find any militia in history that looked like the well equip trained and sustained national guard. militia is and has always been normal people grabbing there weapons to defend there home, it aint a payed job like the national guard

That’s a lie most of the businesses looted were as many Latino as any other group, if you saw the documentary on this the Koreans said the majority of looters were Latino

​@@MrMarkcallandalso Latinos were the majority of people arrested

I also believe as an Asian male and a POC that a lot of this instigation from the news and politicians are just to (corny as hell but) divide and conquer. Easy to make money when politicians can sell identity politics to the public and get people to believe in tribalism. I'd defend my Black and White neighbors any day. Sad that there was a point in time that it seemed things did calm down in real life. I remember BET including Asian rappers and I remember when Dave Chappelles humor was inclusive and would make fun of everyone in a low brow way. Nowadays it seems a lot of it has gone away and the internets influenced too many people to act the way they do. Sadly... Btw your story was badass! Kudos to you bro

"that's why riots are the language of a people who's voices have been stolen" martin luther never said that, on the contrary, his entire struggle was based on non-violent protests, "Oppressing someone else, just because you were oppressed, corrupts your struggle.."

Fuckin based.

Based 👏

Beautiful.

In new zealand, that is not the law. i know 1st hand, 1 can not protect your property. even armed or unarmed. you can get jailed for 2 or 3 years for defending or stopping someone damaging your property...

Even the religious that will go to heaven, the best place ever? What is their motive to avoid it?

Which is exactly why the DNC wants to disarm every law-abiding American gun owner and just leave the illegal ones on the market to the hands of drug cartels and other criminals. The 1992 riot and subsequent smaller ones since prove that 2nd amendment is necessary, it has its downsides but no legislation or legal right is pitch perfect. Let's go Brandon.

yea but we saw with the modern BLM and Antifa riots they dont care people got arrested by the hundreds for trying to stop the rioters no 2a when leftist have power . Rittenhouse ,that couple in their yard, the guy in the white truck , the air force officer all arrested and heavily charged just for trying to survive . not to mention the right wing counter protesters clearly on camera being the victim of the attacks all arrested for defending themselves AFTER blm attacked them

@@MenCanNotBeWomen Shoot, shovel, shut up :)

Aesthetics matter.

How iconic

They need to make him a COD operator

@U TooB that mfer isnt going anywhere I dont think they wanted the smoke he was right there in the middle of the battle and they couldnt take him out i bet they leave bro alone

He sent that picture back home and showed all his friends and family. My dad being one of his friends got the picture.

They are more competent than the police 😂 Would rather have a Korean War veteran than an officer protecting my home or business any day of the week

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

i wasn't gonna bring up the ROK's untill you did. but ya, they should have known better. Fuck with a ROK, or their family? Good Luck with that.

I've seen stories about Korean vietnam vets, damn they are brutal yet effective

@@jkaeqpo400 They did the dirty work what the US military wouldn't allow to do.

I don’t think it ever occurred to the looters they were trying to attack highly trained and motivated troopers. They saw them as weak little people. World’s biggest mistake. Under estimate your opponent.

Palisades park?

Fort lee?

Burgertown county

Moving? Seriously? Granted, yes it's complicated. But we're literally talking about property being valued more than the people who are taking it. That's what insurance is for. Not to mention the fact that these people rioting have been oppressed systematically by the police for how long? Where they being opportunistic? Absolutely. But that's how black people have had to be to survive in this country for centuries.

@@MontyRaeSp8 shut up someone you have never met gets beat its sad but doesnt validate violence and stealing from people who had nothing to do with it

Me too. That guy was a real real one.

He was 100% correct and I disagreed with the verdict as well, the looting and targeting citizens was just stupid and criminal...

Yes, liberals think he should have just let his business get destroyed. If a black person is angry they should be allowed to destroy whatever they want. Defending yourself is actually racist. Sounds kind of crazy as I type it up but that's really what they think

He told other blacks to go burn down other neighborhoods. Fk him.

Black people who did it.

God made marines and the devil ran in fear. Semper Fi

Those called were ROK Marine vets….not USMC…although First MarDiv did respond to this mess. I know I was one of them…

@@ThuyPham-lr5dc hell yeah I’m 0311 till I drop

@@Rook_Layne_Reno " hell yeah I’m 0311 till I drop"

@@deltavee2 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 🗿

This is the true nature of the American dream. It doesn't matter if you were born here or you came here, it is open to all in this land. It's a beautiful thing that these true Americans were willing to fight for and defend their communities from violence and rioting. I am proud to have them in our country

hell yeah we are proud to have them here

ah yes, only the Korean store owner matters, not the exploited Latino seasonal agricultural worker. The American dream could give a fuck about immigrants, it once banned the whole of China from immigrating for trying to make a living in California as miners, and then did the same to Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans during the Great Depression. A hypocritical joke honestly.

A right koreans can never dream of in their homeland... but, america allows such things. 🤣

The government wants to take away our ability. It's up to the people on whether or not to let that happen.

Keep this in mind. It is NOT the police. It is agencies like the ATF. Police are enforcers not lawmakers. The messenger of sorts.

@jacobcory414 That’s what a national guard and militias are supposed to be for.

"it's infuriating that law enforcement will take away your ability to defend yourself whilst not providing protection when it's needed" this is essentially the UK in a nutshell.

Calicrapia is the biggest embarrassment to this nation for generations.

The private sector wins again.

Shows the immediate power of ethnic networking by a competent people

@@spaceddronev2555 I don't think it needs to be "ethnic networking" to work. You just need a group of people who share the same values and decide they're going to work together and do whatever it takes to preserve what they have. That's why the Left wants to divide everyone.

Mandatory military service aka the draft thought them well. Some of the elderly Koreans were Vietnam vets and what they did there made the VC rather pick fights with Americans and avoid the Koreans due to reasons.

and it takes 4 days for the National Guard to get there......

I bet the BTS K-pop group would annihilate these guys too since three of the members are in the South Korean Special Forces program

because the attackers were b l a c k

Downplays? More like just pretends it never happened. I didn’t learn about the rooftop Koreans until I discovered guntube/liberty twitter. It’s not even taught in schools because, like most riots we see today, it makes a certain group look bad and we can’t be having any of that.

Media back then openly tried to make these guys the bad guys escalating the violence. What were they supposed to do? Let the looters destroy their shit and just watch?

The local politicians after this was trying to blame the Koreans for taking up arms.

I had never even heard about these riots

It’s like the gta san andreas meme but with a roof Korean with a rifle “Aw shit, here we go again.”

@@BreadApologist CHANG GANG

It’s “da blacks”

@Dean Ambrose if you ain’t republican, you ain’t white

​@Dean Ambrose the looters are democrats

@Dean Ambrose dat stupid as hell boi

@@CARBONHAWK1 it’s your racist 😂

That is precisely what the media did for two summers in a row while rioters were destroying Portland to please their liberal politicians. They repeatedly called for "defunding the police" which Mayor Ted Wheeler stupidly agreed to. Then an entire precinct was taken over by the shitbirds. The neighborhood police department they took over had major increases in violent crimes thanks to the very same scumbags creating the same problems across the nation.

At this rate, what the Koreans were doing were just counter-protests

Fax. Once you resort to violence you become the villain, no matter what you’re protesting for

@@serkandevel7828 They were just defending themselves from barbaric savages

Agreed, but I think this lacks a bit of nuance. Mass protests are decentralized and easily swayed and co-opted. It's more than likely that there were people who genuinely wanted to peaceful protest, people who wanted to just take advantage of the situation, and people who were angry enough to join in those taking advantage as part of the mob mentality. The system failed multiple times. Once in delivering justice. Once in protecting marginalized and poorer communities. The rioters were not in the right. But the system was also supremely fucked up in multiple instances.

In South Korea all men are required to serve I forget for how many years but it’s mandatory. These dudes were military trained .

@@anaz5918 And on top of that did more to actually handle the riots than the actual police did. I told my friends about this at work and said we need these guy's tactics NOW in places like New York where people literally can just kill anyone on the street they please and have practically a 200 percent chance of not getting caught because of how bad things are down there.

They’re not “legacy Americans” though. Every Korean immigrant in this country replaced a legacy American. (Obviously this is not my real opinion. I was just channeling Tucker Carlson there for a minute)

@@anaz5918 and because they were able to posses guns and defend themselves, they are still alive

@@gregbors8364 No, you're not. You channeling propaganda talking points that have nothing to do with what Tucker actually said.

Foreigners will pay.

​@@John-pf9hcCope.

@@John-pf9hc You are a foreigner too tho

@@John-pf9hc unless you're 100% native american you're a foreigner too

@@johnsai4074 Native Americans are only Indians. Other than them, people in U.S are immigrants!

Its interesting to see the other part of the world. As a part of chinese people here in southeast asia, i grew up with racism and now seems getting worse (esp political purposes). While young gen like gen Z much more open/dont care/doesnt know everything about 1998 mei riot(our story about chinese being looth/many chinese woman got raped). Many of them escape to US (rich one) Also, around 1960 our community got so much pressed that lead to change our name to become local one. My generation now can't speak chinese because our parents/grandparents work so much that we could have nice thing but couldnt teach us hokkien/chinese😪 Fun fact tho, theres a bunch of people that kinda fetishize us because of kpop thing(similar features) lol 🥲

@@7hz8 there’s a lot of Americans who think china is a testament to the merit of communism would you disagree?

Yeah as they do,I say today about all the illegals pouring over the borders is bus them to the rich elite areas and watch the borders get closed quick smart. Rich elites think they are above the rest of us and in 2022 that’s even more obvious.

@@7hz8 1998? Indonesia?

I'll never forget the trucker an the brick. Truly terrifying what one group can do.

There are so many examples, especially in the last few years, of immigrants coming to a country and outright refusing to get along with the current culture and laws. Korean immigrants taking up arms to defend, with violence, their self-made livelihood is more American than most natural citizens. Respect.

You misspelled Americans.

I’m 34 and this was the first time I’ve ever heard about this but god damn. I always knew Koreans were bada55 and patriots from watching documentaries and films about the crap they went through with the Japanese invading and taking control of their land, the war, fighting to preserve their language and culture, to just simply being able to vote and not be targeted by the Korean fbi (which was in sk during the 1980s and 90s). It was hell for them and knowing about the brave souls men and woman who gave their life hoping for a free Korea (most hoped for a United one too but free half is a step forward).

Made a video on the rooftop Koreans check it out

These chinos are racist

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

Wow someone can be this dumb lol

Americans of Korean descent

I would say they're just Americans. The vast majority of us aren't the original people on this continent. And American heroes at that, the founding fathers would be proud of their organized defense until the cavalry arrived.

corrected again. Americans period...

@@anydaynow01yc

Of course. You can't have the citizens get the idea that they should defend themselves.

That was the impression I got from the media in the US, too. It's not an accident. This was 30 years ago. The media has been deceiving us for decades, about the things they consider most important. The more adamant they are about how sure their "facts" are about something, the more effort people need to put into finding out what's really true about it. Unfortunately, most people do the opposite, and are more likely to believe what is repeated the most by the loudest confident and authoritative voices. Truly obvious facts don't have to be repeated over and over and over again to adults, year after year, to be believed, but distortions and deceptions have to be.

You're living in upside-down world, that's why! Haha

@Bryan Kirby Sadly true, but at the time we hadn't gone completely off the rails, I actually owned an AR15 amongst other things.

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back

where can i find that video?

where can i see that, shit sounds sick

@@mrwhiteguy5145 It was part of a documentary I saw years ago. You can find plenty of written reference to it on the internet, but I am having trouble finding the clip itself. If I ever remember what documentary it was I will let you know.

im curious too!

I’m following in case you find it lol

Right

Reading this while seeing the gran torino pfp is hilarious. Very true statement but also ironic with the Clint Eastwood image 😂

Respect! Where did you come from?

Best comment about this I’ve seen

the image suits you ajaja

That's correct, people need to learn to WORK/EARN what they need and want.

And the stolen item waaas...? **aggressive drumroll**

@@TheDennys21 who cares

@@matthewstokes1608 I do

@@TheDennys21 stolen, 2nd Amendment lmao

White people love to prop up the koreans of ktown as their allies and examples of model minorities. Truth is if Koreans were as valued as white people this never would have happened in the first place, our ajummas and ajussis were just trying to survive. They don't care about the details, just that we had guns. This video is cringe af.

some youtube journalist writing some tom clancy novel here hahaha the north korean menace in the heart of LA!! lmfaooooo

It’s true, I have no idea where this theory has come about in the last couple of years. I’m sure a couple of them were, but the majority of them were South Koreans some Korean/American

I didn't expect this many likes, so I have to add one thing before anybody tries to correct it. When I said "this is the era when Soviet was alive", I meant the era when these people moved to the US and formed the Korea town, not the year when the riot took place. The year of the LA riot is an year after the collapse of Soviet union.

Thank you for the clarification

Democrats under NO circumstances want you capable of defending yourself from them. They will keep instigating mass shootings in a bid to rally useful idiots into calling for gun control.

The riots were 100% justified and 100% the fault of the jury, when you declare that the police will face no consequences for breaking the law with violence you give every single citizen the right to do quite literally whatever they want

@@xp8969 And keeping with your line of thinking, so were the venerated Roof Top Koreans.

@@dcxxxx yep, it's all the government's fault

@@xp8969 This also means that death squads of disgruntled citizens could form and start hunting protestors and their families. If everything is allowed on the field then don't expect your victims to play nice in return.

Nope, not the female half of the population

@@jameschoung5604 the female half can do voluntary service though so some are trained.

@@da5983 they do tend to be exceptions.

I grew up with 2 good Korean friends as a kid, Sehee, a former marine now professional bodybuilder who although is only 5'8" is one of the scariest dudes you could ever imagine fucking with, and Sung Lee, a K-Pop star looking League of Legends playing nerd who spoke 0 English in 8th grade but by 12th was fluent making memes. He lives in Texas now, and was recently involved in a self-defense case where he was robbed at gunpoint and DISARMED the guy. He got shot in the leg but ended up winning the gun and was able to hold the guy at gunpoint until the cops arrived. Don't fuck with Koreans.

Most of these are not Korean citizens they are Americans.

amazing story thank you for sharing

holy shit, shocking experience it must've been for you

👌🙏

Lmao good on you for not snitching to cowards that call themselves police officers. And there's a special place in hell for those who attack school children.

fucking LAPD. just like government everywhere. go after the heroes. all the blacks who were looting and killing... nope no need to identify them. but the koreans who saved a schoolbus? sure... let's jail em!

Those older gen Koreans went through heaps of shit. Mad respect

They are pariah

Older generations of all races were some hard mfs but Asians have to take the cake, the Korean war and Vietnam war are proof of that

Nothing but love for the ROK and Koreans in general. Amazing people amazing culture.

You remember that thing we had about 30 years ago called the Korean conflict? And how we failed to achieve victory? How come we didn't cross the 38th parallel and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China?

You should've substituted strong men for roof Koreans rather than hard times

​@@VZWKare you high

Rooftop Koreans create vantage points

​@@8qjfhai8He's right, the usual saying goes: "Weak men creat hard times, hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, and good times create weak men." So in the original comment Rooftop Korean is substituting good times, which is dumb and doesn't even make sense. So what the original comment should have done is to replace strong men for rooftop Koreans instead, so that it would go: "...weak men create hard times, hard times create rooftop Koreans." Which totally makes since.

@@Pepe-pq3om "rather than hard times"

Not only China and Japan. Mongolia also. Just China and Mongolia invaded about 21 times throughout history...... and failed. We will do _anything_ to persevere.

Korean military vets, i salute you. "Walk softly & carry a big stick". A 100 year old saying that is as true today as it was under Teddy Roosevelt. Korean Marines ain't to be messed with, never forget.😊

There are a lot of these 'between China and Japan' comments online. No offense, I know you have good intentions, but this is a really inaccurate depiction of Korean history. It's the equivalent of saying "Europe was historically under the influence of the United States", just looking at the current status and assuming it was always like that. Korean history stretches back over 2700 years, and Japan only rose as a significant power about 400 years ago. In reality it was more of a struggle between China and the nomadic hordes(most famous is the Mongolian Empire, but it was hardly the only powerful horde nation). So not that far off but 'hordes', not 'Japan'.

@@blue-d4g This^ +1

japanese pirates were notorious for raiding korean peninsula for hundreds of years even before the major invasion of Hideyoshi. I guess you can say those pirates were japanese "hordes" @@blue-d4g

Koreans OPPRESSING in the US??🤣🤣

@@adenm8963 dunno, ask my ethnic studies teacher

They were "Korean White Supremacists!" 🤣 Just ask the Left-Wing media!

@@BST-lm4po they called us the same thing after the affirmative action ruling...

The dumb thing about that whole narrative: The riots started because LA Cops got away with to much crazy shit. I really fail to see how that can even be blamed on those korean shop owners (or any regular folks walking down the streets) in any way shape or form. People were sick and tired of the LAPD, those shop owners were literally collateral damage for the rage that had grown over the years of LAPD f-ery. And as history has proven again and again => you can't reason with rioters. At that point only a massive presence of force can stop shit from getting worse and worse.

Yeah he did the smartest thing was to move back to Korea

Your uncle was a badass.

Sounds like he’s old school tough. God bless him.

No wonder Kim Jong Un won't invade. He doesn't want to mess with your uncle.

@@Intrepid_Crusader1096 why?

I was a white kid with English immigrant parents in high school in northern California when it happened. I remember watching it on TV and rooting for the Koreans. It was so depressing to watch the rioting and the senseless violence and destruction, but as soon as I saw footage of the "rooftop Koreans," my spirits were lifted.

Stop Asian-American hate. End socialism.

@@DrCruel For sure...growing up I experienced a lot of racism from all races. I had thick skin so it didn't bother me until I was physically assaulted and had to fight back. Got called "Bruce" after that...lol

@@kingspartacus2690 Bad names is one thing. Having to work out of a bulletproof booth because Leftists keep robbing and shooting shopkeepers is quite another.

@@kingspartacus2690 the great white shark as seen in Nemo and jaws?

100% brother

AGREED

I just think there needs to be a legit vetting process

Just wait until the normally abused and trampled on minorities, such as the ones who made up the LA rioters, realize they also have the same Second Amendment Rights. Then you can have the street wars you fantasize about. However, as you will be hopelessly outnumbered, don't think it will happen the way you dream of

Agreed

How about making sure a mob never happens? Preventative measures are better than defensive. Better education, better opportunities, better healthcare for ALL americans, eliminating poverty.

@@justsomedudeyouknow8372 How about go be ignorant somewhere else?

@@justsomedudeyouknow8372 Man, it'd also be great if everyone was given their own personal unicorn! Maybe a golden egg, once a day. Grow the fuck up, bad people exist, bad shit happens. Hell, we just had record amounts of rioting and looting happen in all of the largest cities in this country, untold amounts of monetary damage was done, people were killed, businesses were destroyed. You want to know where shit didn't get violent? Phoenix AZ, the 6th largest city in this country, who had protests, but no riots. You want to know why? When there was talk about rioting and looting, the boomers, vets, and other self respecting people told them to 'fuck around and find out' and this kept the peace better than anything else could

@@justsomedudeyouknow8372 maybe in some ideal utopia that would work; however, I would rather live in reality.

@@jhouser972 Reality is what we make it, not just accepting things as they are and letting them stay that way. You wanna prevent uprisings and riots then address the concerns of those that are angry and make the changes necessary to prevent them from getting out of hand. People wouldnt loot if they werent desperately poor. People wouldnt join gangs or engage in criminal activity if a quality education was possible and meant they would get a high paying job. People wouldnt be criminals if jobs paid more than starvation wages or if neighborhoods werent allowed to turn to sh*t.

Well shit, I used to live in nearby Lennox, and even though I was born in 2000 and the area was entirely Latino, there were photos of tanks driving through Avenue of the Champions and Dalerose Ave., and that was one of the supposed safer spots to have been stuck in during the riots.

They took government hand outs to floods the communities with liquor stores and were known for shooting kids under 10 in the back. The people who were targeted by government funded liquor stores

You and your parents are true American Patriots.Well done in life Sir!.

My man wrote a whole damn novel

I'm happy you survived and nobody was hurt!

You guys are heros, you definitely earn my a hundred percent respect and salute.

I'm truly sorry that your family was forced to fend for itself like that. A dark day for the city, state, and country, indeed. This happened before I was born, but the Korean American rooftop protectors have certainly become true American legends.

Well that was the 1st generations parent's that came to America. It carried over to their Korean-American children who also served in the American military.

@@keyrex1111 my point still stands cause not all of them came from the North

@@keyrex1111 actually I wanted to say that part was only kinda misleading part from this video. Most of them were south koreans whom served in south korean military. I’d be surprised if there was single north korean.

Ahhhh, I never knew. No wonder these So. Koreans were so well prepared in that situation.

The second they leave high school it's either the military or jail

Stay strapped. Stay gold.

interesting what you say, really reminds me of the central themes of JG Ballard's books (British writer).

real life purge.

I don't know why people fail to see the fragility of our so called "peace". One event is all it takes for anarchy to ensue. I've experienced it once during the aftermath of a natural disaster. Most people turn rabid and ugly.

​​@@macchiato_1881ecause it's not actually that fragile. This was largely over in less than a week and directly affected less than 1% of our entire country's population. In the grand scheme of the history of our country, it is an objective fact that peace (when considered in this context) is many times more common than not. But even if what you mean to say is just that many people have this propensity for violence and amorality in them, what would recognizing this look like to you? You say that people fail to realize these truths, but what would it look like if they did realize them? Would they all prep for an apocalyptic end to society? It would then become a self fulfilling prophecy. I have a buddy thats sort of a prepper, and he sometimes remarks that people are sheeple for assuming the shit won't ever hit the fan, and I gently remind him of his failures to be successful in this current reality while prepping for one that essentially has never happened. I'm not throwing shade on you, but it's something to think about. There's more important shit to do than prepare for a complete collapse of your immediate social environment. I'm a native Floridian and I've been through at least a dozen natural disasters including my entire neighborhood being underwater. I know looting happens, but most people don't do the thing you are describing. My community helped each other out and it was a time of bonding.

@@Poignant_Ritual im not from your country. Not everyone is american bud. You don't know how bad things get in countries like mine. Not everyone is as privileged as you.