Dave looked so lonely in the thumbnail. lmao. Those "Roof Koreans" are true American patriots and protected their families, friends, and property. A+ from me.
Economic growth (after Korean War to the level of miracle) + Taekwondo + Military Service.. Don’t mess with Koreans. They are very quiet, calm and focused; however, if they need, they will show you who they are in a different way. Koreans but true Americans 👍 Thumbs up!
As I am Korean, I really enjoyed my military service life from Nov., 21st, 2002(19yrs old) to until Jan., 2005. At that time, I did a lot of shooting training, threw grenades, and endured two hellish guerrilla drills in midsummer (2 weeks in total) and 30 days of cold training in the mountains in the cold winter. Also, I experienced a total of 8 marches of 7 hours each way. Especially, I met many good men and felt the true friendship and loyalty of men.
The United States army can attack any place in the world within 24 hours with 750 military bases around the world but it takes they 4 days to save their own city from burning😂
As a Korean American no we didn't come from North Korea. I'm pretty sure less than 100 Korean Americans are actually from North Korea. There are almost 5 million Korean Americans and probably even more.
Proud to say many of my family members were roof Koreans protecting our stores back in the LA Riots. We dealt with terrible racism during the riots and after with many of us leaving our neighborhoods for the suburbs like Fullerton, Gardena, or Garden Grove.
Back in the 1967 Riots in Detroit, heavily-armed residents of Southwest Detrout's Mexicantown neighborhoods worked with police and National Guard to repel rioters and looters from their neighborhood. Several East Side and West Side neighborhoods weren't as lucky.
*Americans fighting Americans in the name of racial superiority.* In WW1, President Woodrow Wilson opened the military to non-whites. He allowed Hispanics and Native Americans to fight along with whites. He made separate divisions solely for black Americans. They were generally not allowed to fight for fear that they might come home armed - a hint that the Second Amendment didn't apply to blacks. Blacks in the military were basically cooks and janitors with only a few allowed to fight as an experiment. Wilson also fired black staff members in the White House when he won the Presidency. He believed black could only cook and clean, and not administrate policies.
Tell that to NJ residents that have to flee their home if someone breaks in. They can only use deady force if they are cornered and can’t run. It’s an insane law, and shouldn’t be a thing. I’m in NY and surprisingly we have the castle doctrine, which holds that a persons home is their castle essentially and anyone inside who isn’t invited is open to being educated from the business end of a 12 gauge.
@@clonexx i am in Florida. We are allowed to defend ourselves anywhere. Liberal cities and states have strict gun laws hence more criminals. The criminals don’t obey gun laws.
During the riots of 2021, inspired by the roof koreans, a loose group of people on social media formed the "Rooftop Asians" which included all Asians and served as a bit of a communication network monitoring the riots in many major cities. Many people did set up on their rooftops with rifles, but very few ever needed to shoot (luckily).
The first person the RTKs shot dead was a fellow Korean responding to the broadcast, ironically it was the only Korean that got killed. Such incompetence they like to leave out of their heroic militia Korean narrative
@@youarealooser121 I mean, like the video said, they were also shooting into the air in one of the most densely populated places in north America. No one is saying that a relatively unorganized group of armed people is not going to make a lethal mistake.
I was in the military at the time, didn't know anything about the trial. A newly enlisted soldier from Compton told me if those cops are acquitted that L A. was about to burn to the ground. I'll never forget the look on his face when he said that.
I was born during the L.A. riots, my mom would tell me stories of how chaotic the whole city was. The war zones that would pop up, but one thing was certain...K Town was a no go, it was on complete lock down, no one messed with it. I've been to that part of L.A. a few times and to this day it's hard to explain there is still an air to it that you don't mess with it.
I was stationed in South Korea while in the Army and they are serious about defending their country if North Korea invades. There are large concrete pillars set up next to many northern roads that are designed to be toppled by explosives so they block roadways, as well as bridges being taken out to stop advances. There are even some buildings positioned so they can be demolished to block movement. A large part of the rebuilding after the Korean war was focused on making sure another invasion doesn't get through so easily.
there is even rumor now that because South Korea is considered the 5th most powerful armed forces in the world at the moment, these plans have been upgraded to a possible invasion of the North in case of conflict and further pushes into Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula if China decides to support North Korea. And in Manchuria and Liaodong, there is a huge pro-Korean presence within the population there. This is why the added capabilities like being nuclear capable and icbm development capable are also a huge help to South Korea as they possess enough means now to seize thise territories in case of a conflict with them possessing enough weapons, political support, economic clout, one of the largest military industrial complexes in the world, and a highly trained populace. Rebuilding and putting the acquired territories up to South Korean development standards would be the real challenge here.
Roof Koreans are AWESOME! They're actually everywhere and when there was rioting in Ferguson, the only business NOT burned to the ground was saved by - YEP! - Roof Koreans! They are a national treasure! Same with the whole "Summer of Love (2020)" People burning and pillaging made u-turns every time the roof spoke Korean!
Back in those days Los Angeles was considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world they're averaging 2-3 murders a day, gang violence was at all time high and racial tension was boiling over. For being one of the most diverse cities in the world Los Angeles has high self-imposed racial segregation.
“Self imposed” is a huge almost hilarious oversimplification it makes me think you have actually have no clue what you’re talking about. We aren’t talking about a prison and 99% of the people who live or have lived in LA weren’t in gangs. So why then were normal everyday people living in neighborhoods that were primarily one culture group? Better yet why would people of a particular culture group feel that it would be safer to stay stay in their culture group?🤔
Yeah, harming somebody like a liquor store owners son and looting stores because of the acquittal makes no sense at all, some people were just looking for excuses to go steal.
There's something missing from this video that would better explain the tension. At the time there was a lot of tension between the Korean community and Black community in Los Angeles. Not long before the riots broke out a Black teenage girl was shot and killed by a Korean shop owner after a physical confrontation over the girl being accused of shop lifting. There was also a case of two newly arrived Korean emigrants being murdered after complying during a robbery by someone who was Black not long before the riots, so there was a race war brewing, the riots just struck the match.
To be clear, the black girl was shot in the back of the head while she was trying to leave. The shop owner had accused her of stealing some juice (she hadn't.) The Korean lady was found guilty but served no jail time. This happened two weeks after the Rodney King beating.
Scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned this, since the video didn’t. There was already a history of tension between the 2 groups in LA before the riots. So, the verdict was the powder keg. In the 60s, there was a larger wave of Korean immigration into south LA neighborhoods, and they were able to buy affordable property from white emigrants (i.e. white flight). At the time, tensions rose from cultural misconceptions of each other and after the death of Latasha Harlins. Also, some black residents expressed Koreans were granted business loans/opportunities, etc. where they were denied. So, the age old scarcity trap. Interestingly enough, tensions relaxed between the groups after the riots. Some Korean Angelenos spoke to the media afterwards, and stated how the riots created a shift in how they perceived themselves. How they previously viewed themselves according to the “model minority” myth, until they felt abandoned by the police and were left to fend for themselves during the riots. Afterwards, there was a shift towards more political visibility and fostering ties with the black and latino communities. Here’s one of many articles: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/04/28/us/la-riots-korean-americans/index.html
@Herr Goober The cashier shoulda kept her hands to herself and accepted the money harlins tried to hand her. The actual shop owner recognized her as a regular customer.
As a black person from LA who lived in South Central most my life and grew up around racist ass Asians I'm so proud to see this as the day Koreans became true Americans standing up for themselves the way a true American would realizing the cops ain't going to do shit and sometimes you got to take matters into your own hands if the situation and necessitates it. it will always be a glory story no matter how much I hated Asians growing up I respect Koreans for what they did to protect themselves
Take it down a notch. While rioting isn't excusable, there's a reason they went for the Koreans. Not only were they extremely racist toward the black people in whose neighborhood they decided to open their stores, but just before this a Korean shop owner shot a black girl in the head when she wrongfully suspected she stole a cupcake. And she walked off with probation. These people do have a right to protect themselves and their property, but they're not effing saints. They're just as responsible as the LAPD and the judge that let them off for beating a man mercilessly. Funny how y'all always manage to neglect that part of the story-- the cops who beat the mess out of an American citizen on camera. You don't give a shit about any of that though. You see people with guns doing the type of militia shit that some of y'all get off on and you get hard.
@@lesliebobesly4755 "While rioting isn't excusable" here's a list of excuses for the LA riots. "Y'all" went and victimized a city worth of innocent people for what a handful of people did. Collective responsibility and punishment is fucking weak. Leave it to morons to not understand that my comment was partially tongue-in-cheek. Even if they were racist burning down Koreatown was in no way justifiable. The Rodney King beating and acquittals were wrong but doing $1 Billion in damage, killing 60 people, injuring over 2,000, and looting was a lot worse. A metric fuckton worse.
@@lesliebobesly4755 still no justification to act like apes and burn shit down. I'm fully aware of the context and I fully support the Koreans in the LA Riots
I lived in Hollywood, right off of Hollywood Blvd, during the riots. Luckily our apts were gated. Gun shots, fire and looting a half a block away. To get home from work that night I drove down the 10 east to La Brea with my lights off. Two years later I moved… to Korea-town 😂
The LAPD were protecting the white areas (West LA, Beverly Hills, etc.) next to Koreatown, so they left the Koreans to fend for themselves. After things calmed down, the LAPD came in to arrest the Korean store owners for brandishing firearms. Ridiculous.
I live in LA. Those Koreans are what America is all about. True patriots that will defend what’s theirs. Respect !! Ktown today is one of the best spots in LA because they cared enough to defend it and preserve it. If you come to LA, go to Ktown. Great food everywhere. Enjoy your videos
Were you proud of them during the years before this, when they were antagonizing the people in these communities? Or a few weeks before this when one of them shot a black girl in the head because they thought she stole a twinkie? (Turns out she didn't btw) I'm not excusing the destruction by any means; it's all. But don't deify these people for fighting a fire that they helped to start.
@@lesliebobesly4755 I'm sure you're very fun at parties. To answer your question, yes. Because unless you have evidence that any of these specific people were guilty of what you're saying, you're blaming innocent people. So kindly piss off
The thing is, EVERYONE did this. I grew up in Carson, mentioned in this video, and was in high school at the time. Everywhere, families of small mom-and-pop businesses stood gard and defended their livelihood. All races. I (Mexican) have cousins who did the same for their liquor store. The big point of all this mess was a huge shift in the way Asian culture was viewed by the other communities.
I think that many people do not understand the history of Asia, and all the wars that happened last century - WWII, Korean war, Vietnam war, Cambodia, etc. Where do you think that generation of freedom fighters went? This definitely changed the way Asians were perceived in LA. Asians across the board were not as surprised as non-Asians that K Town would do this. Today K Town is one of the trendiest Asian communities in the LA. There is a stereotype of Asians that is not true, we are rather underestimated. BTW I am Los Angeles born, Filipino/ Chinese/ with a dash of European. I was 20 when this happened but lived in Glendale (a suburb) and watched this meyhem on TV, which was happening just 20 minutes away.
Guys, y'all might not know the whole situation...there was tension in LA for *decades* before this. LA was a packed tinderbox and the acquittal of the officers who, shall we say, mauled Rodney King was the match. (I was in university at the time, and I remember a distinct lack of personal shock.)
There was the young black girl who was shot in the store by a Korean woman as well (can’t remember her name)… I agree the tension was building up for quite some time and it eventually all spilled over.
I remember this very well I was 19 it was terrible. Then we were shocked and relieved when The show In Living Color did a hilarious, skit about it. That's when comedy was still risky and there to comfort people.
This is why its so important to have our 2nd Amendment in America and why we own guns. If Police can't help you, you have to be able to protect yourself and your property.
Those Koreans are Korean American immigrants they have American status and these are the Americans we need in the country, ones that are willing to defend their freedoms their property and their rights.
That's what America is about. Whether you are from here or not. If police won't help you have to protect yourself. Stay strapped or get clapped. Tsun zu
They're now grandpa to me. Most of the 1st generation of Korean was war veterans when Korean war and Vietnam war and people whom already finished their army service in Korea. This is what Korea town can immediately switch up to Command Centre against Riots.
Only thing about this video is that in fact the Koreans from the video are South Koreans and most likely immigrants families for the American dream but still all the Koreans due to mandatory military service are well experienced
I’m so glad the video didn’t show the attack of Reginald Denny. It was sickening. I remember where I was when the verdict came down. I was working in my mom’s tax office sitting at the typewriter. Earlier that afternoon, my brother, who was working for a criminal evidence lab at the time, called me and told me (and Mom) that if the officers were acquired, we were to go straight home and stay there. We were listening to the radio and heard the verdict. I promise you, when I heard that verdict, I then “heard” a roaring crowd. I lived about 25 miles east of LA at the time and work was maybe 4 miles further east. My mother thought my brother was overreacting until day two of the riots when could look west and see smoke from all of the fires. It was bad. I remember the black gentleman shown who was saying “What are doing?” Rioters were destroying their own neighborhoods with the looting and fires, and shooting at firefighters (I guess to prevent them from putting out the fires?). There were plenty of blacks who didn’t have jobs after the riots because their workplace was destroyed. I was getting upset with the Blokes in the beginning because of some of their comments and jokes. But I waited to comment because I knew they didn’t have a clue of how bad it was. I also did a quick search for Denny. He’s staying as far away as possible from those days. “He’s become a very private person.” And, no, he’s not in California. He left a few months after that day.
The looting is not part of the protest. When there is a large protest then thieves know where the police are and where they are not. Make sure Dave keeps out of your shop.
Thank you for making that clear. I hate when people mix up peaceful protesters and those that are out there to purposely cause harm and anarchy. I wish they went over a little more about the cause of the protests. The police could have had a better response and the kid/teen should not have been that dumb to fight back knowing what just happened. There was also the Korean lady calling blacks in the neighborhood all kinds of names etc. The whole thing was a mess. All sides were wrong. I’m glad the Korean people were able to protect themselves from the looters. Rioters don’t care about the cause they care about the chaos. It took decades for black and East Asian people to get along after this.
@@jayandree4361 I was looking for this comment, there was a lot of racial tension and anger that boiled over. It wasn’t just the verdict and ppl like to forget that.
This video literally missed all the context. A 14 year old girl was shot in the head by a Korean woman who thought she was stealing. And the lady got, Probation and no jail time. Plus Rodney King officers weren’t charged. This event changed American history
A note: Probably none of those firearms were fully automatic, it is very hard to get those and they are in the $10k+ range. Most models of guns are sold to civilians in semi auto. For instance, an AR you would buy would not be fully automatic even though the military has them.
There are ways to turn semi-automatic weapons into "fully automatic"... I think the video with the bank robbers in body armor mentioned one of the weapons they used had such a modification. It's not impossible that the Korean shop owners had at least some fully automatic weapons. Probably a very small number, but not inconceivable that at least some of those guns were capable of automatic fire.
@@whimsofmim True, however I doubt they would have done this specifically for this riot, especially since they were posted on roof tops. I’d pick semi over auto any time, if you want to hit what you’re aiming at.
@@Camroc37 oh yeah, I agree. Even if they had fully automatic weapons, people who are trained to shoot them understand you typically shoot in short, controlled bursts (which is very similar to firing like it was semi-automatic anyway). The Hollywood portrayal of action heroes spraying fire from automatic weapons is not typical for how trained people would normally use that kind of weapon. I was mainly pointing out that given the time period, of some of these guys were actual vets, it's likely there was at least some automatic weapons amongst the stuff they were carrying, even if not really used.
@@whimsofmim I had that thought about the veterans, especially since they served in Vietnam/Korea it is possible they were able to return with something, although I've heard even then that autos had to be converted to semi only (but some made it through). I just associate LA with anti gun but things were probably a lot different then.
You've got to remember this was back in '92 and the FOPA was fairly new hence there were plenty of automatics grandfathered in. Also any automatic back then was cheaper than now due to the fax that as time goes on they will keep getting more expensive
To add on to HOW the emergency response teams/police/LAFD/sheriffs were distributed....the nicer the areas the more protect, parts of the city like this kind of got ignored which to this day adds to the bad blood between the city and LAPD to this day because those people that defended their area are still alive
Im from LA. On a lighter note my Korean American coworker way back told me the food in Ktown is better than Korea. I didn’t believe him until I visited Korea a couple of years ago. Ktown has one of the best food, deserts and Karaoke 🎤
No. That is not true. I am a Korean and I can tell you the Korean food jn LA went down on its quality. It is not nice at all anymore. Maybe handful of restaurants keep the quality nowadays.
Probably true for most Americans born and raised in America. But if you ask anyone from a specific country eating variation of their food, they'll straight up tell you that it's off. I live in NZ and Korean food in NZ are for Kiwi taste buds. For us, 9/10 times food tastes horrible and off. So I don't go to Korean restaurants here. My Thai, Indian friends all say their food also tastes terrible here in NZ and sometimes they even struggle to recommend me a restaurant. Meanwhile I find most of their food sold in restaurants, perfectly fine.
It’s why the 2nd amendment is Very important to us, because it’s America and things go 0 to 100 in a second and you either have your family and friends protected or get destroyed because the police aren’t coming to save you when chaos hits.
Regarding their guns, the automatic weapons ban had only recently come into effect in 1986, while the more restrictive California laws had yet to be enacted.
One thing to realise is that many, many asians have received military training at some point in their lives. I'm Indian and i had received my training in school with the National Cadet Corps. I was trained in small arms combat tactics in School. Then i went on to receive further training in Counter Insurgency and Urban Warfare. Now i live a normal citizen's life but i can pick up arms and fight if i'm called upon. Those people are Koreans, born out of the war. They knew things that none of the LA rioters will ever know (just pulling the trigger means nothing at all). Even recreation shooters and so called firearms experts will code brown themselves when they're faced with incoming fire. That requires training which the Koreans had and the rioters didn't. South Korea already had compulsory military service and North Korea, well, what can i say more.
Uzi doesn’t necessarily mean it’s full auto. By 1992, automatic weapons were all but banned except for firearms created before 1986 or Class 3 Firearms License holders, which is an incredibly expensive and very long process to get. More than likely, it’s a semi-automatic uzi. That doesn’t mean there’s not a chance he bought it before 1986, which in that case it could very well be full auto. I wanted to see him fire it :P
Nice upgrade in the "blokes". I lived in So Cal at the time of the riots and we were all on alert even in towns far away from this. Same happened in the 68 riots.
Ikr... I usually try to avoid this kind of content on RU-vid because the level of idiocy, racism, and hyper-nationalism (but they call themselves patriots) in the comments gets my blood pressure up lol. I love the Blokes, but if they keep with this kind of content I might unsubscribe, because the audience for this kind of stuff is a mixed bag with a lot of nuts, and I have to protect my peace.
I watched this in real-time on TV. Living in NorCal, I wasn't in the hot zones. Yes, looting isn't the answer, but the Rodney King verdict was so disappointing, that I can understand the anger. The ppl being harmed were the hardest to see. I remember seeing that trucker getting pulled from his cab. It was a painful time for everyone.
The tragic and complicated scenario when the victims of generations of brutality and evil can legitimately become as bad as the criminals they so rightfully are angry at, in a matter of seconds.
the north korean defector part is just a myth most were just normal south korean immigrant they have manditory military service so all male immigrants would have some military training
It’s so interesting to see the news footage. My only frame of reference to the LA riots was in GTA San Andreas. They just missed the rooftop Koreans part
Google (RU-vid) placed a warning before this video, and then the very first ad opens with a cartoon/computer generated character on a rooftop aiming a rifle at another figure...
This was an amazing video. As for the competition, the age restriction is gonna kill ya Dave. My money is on the Sanford and Son video that Daz picked.
Really glad you guys are reacting to this channel and content like this. A couple facts/corrections: None of the guns used by the koreans were full auto, as this is took place after they were heavily restricted/banned. However, many of the guns used here are now banned in the states either by name, or because of a ban on certain weapons being imported to the U.S (making many of the guns used by the Koreans incredibly valuable today).
*Here's another perspective: Koreans operated in black neighborhoods and without major issues from the government were able to buy homes and get jobs where black natural born citizens were restricted from the same by covenants, redlining, and proven, unwritten banking practices.* It's good that the Koreans defended their interests but they were also part of problem. Opening more liquor stores than grocery stores in impoverished areas. Rarely hiring people from the neighborhood. And at the end of the day going home to their middle class suburbs. Los Angeles whites didn't like Koreans or Chinese that much but they preferred them over Hispanics (see Zoot Suit riots) and definitely over black Americans. Chief Daryl Gates believed that that blacks were dying more frequently from chokeholds because their veins or arteries didn’t open up as fast as “normal people.” This shows a culture that define non-whites as less-than human.
History rhymes more than it repeats the way I see it. The riots after George Floyd's death is eerily similar to the Rodney King riots. George Floyd and Rodney King are people who had experiences with law enforcement who had protests and riots occur for their justice. King was drunk driving and led police in a high speed chase through the I-210 freeway and Floyd had a previous record of theft, drug possession and trespassing and serving 8 jail sentences. They were apprehended by police officers who used excessive force. The officers later being acquitted of charges. After justice hasn't been served people protested, looted and rioted and destroying privately and corporatised businesses. The U.S National Guard was involved. The only difference is there were no Rooftop Koreans in the George Floyd riots.
I lived in LA County then, it was crazy, the people who took furniture and tvs, they authorities waited till trash day and looked who put out their couches and stuff, then the trash took their stuff and then the police went into the house and arrested and took the new stuff back. Also all Korean men due mandatory military service, so they knew how to use a gun
