The only person the korean shopkeepers killed was an employee of one shopkeeper who was mistaken for a looter.
And, if I remember correctly (it's been years since I looked in to the Rodney King riots) the reason it was Korean shopkeepers at all was that redlining had systematically prevented black people from getting loans and establishing businesses, resulting in many of the businesses in that particular black neighborhood being owned by Koreans.
Edward Song Lee, an 18-year-old Asian man, was shot and killed Thursday, April 30, 1992, in Koreatown. Lee, a Korean American, was attempting to protect shops near 3rd Street and Hobart Boulevard when he was apparently shot by fellow Korean Americans who mistook him for a looter.
There’s a picture of him dead alongside other people who got shot and survived, and the cops are just standing there questioning them rather than administering first aid lol
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The only person the korean shopkeepers killed was an employee of one shopkeeper who was mistaken for a looter.
And, if I remember correctly (it's been years since I looked in to the Rodney King riots) the reason it was Korean shopkeepers at all was that redlining had systematically prevented black people from getting loans and establishing businesses, resulting in many of the businesses in that particular black neighborhood being owned by Koreans.
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There’s a picture of him dead alongside other people who got shot and survived, and the cops are just standing there questioning them rather than administering first aid lol