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I’ll never forget the first time I heard someone say that everyone is a gangster until the roof starts speaking Korean.
Awesome
I feel the reason he slips in some funny stuff into a serious topic is because in the military we tend to make dark jokes out of a serious stressful situation. It helps us cope with it. I believe he's a vet himself too. ☺️😎💯
Nothing is off limits when it comes to humor. It's how we cope as a society.
Damn straight gentlemen, we also get use to the awkward silence following an off color joke after some time 😂 Manchu!❤
US military cant be deployed on US soil without orders ftom the president.
Declaring martial law is complicated unless your in Canada
posse comitatus act
there is no provision for marital law in the USA
That doesn't apply at all to the national guard. The governor makes that decision.
Not to mention martial law goes a lot better when the government has a monopoly on violence.
I lived in Los Angeles county during this time. Nothing was more American than these Korean immigrants defending their turf. There was mad respect for them afterward!
King was high as a kite. On a 90mph police chase. Then hit the cops!
It was worse than just looting. Look further into the attempted murder of the truck driver Reginald Denny by the looters.
The absolutely brutal and sickening attack of that truck driver Reginald Denny still makes me nauseous to this day.
Dave, I may have been insensitive on the "I'm Leaving... OB Video", But i'm going to miss you on that channel. a Third of a decade with ya'll in my house everyday. Being an electrician is a noble job and good luck!
It’s shocking news, but I think he’ll be a good electrician…
@@Syzygy77👈👈 eyyy 😅
Hell yeah, a lot of people think the Dream Team was the 1992 US Olympic basketball team. NO SIR! These guys are The Dream Team. The 1992 Rooftop Korean Grocers. We need more of them in America now.
As an Asian American in LA, even though we’re not all Korean, the riots have always been on our minds as a worst case scenario.
Martial law just isn’t done in the US but there is a level in between with the National Guard. They were deployed the next day.
martial law is illegal in the USA
Rooftop Koreans, and Marvin Heemeyer (Killdozer) are American Heroes as far as I’m concerned.
Dave is all of us when he starts to smile when the music kicks in knowing how badass popo’s intros are
I graduated from Poly High in Long Beach (with Snoop Dogg! ha!) in 1989. Sublime was just about to become a thing. I lived on the L.A./Orange County border. When the riots happened in 92, LA was put under martial law I could leave my house, drive down the street, but could not turn left because of the curfew. I could turn right and go into Orange County because there was no curfew. I remember going up on the roof of my house at night and saw tanks rolling down our main street, heading west from OC. Our Department of Motor Vehicles in Long Beach was burned down one night. (A few years later, a new one was built, further east in Long Beach.) Many buildings around my old high school were torched. I was shocked to call up a friend of mine who was Black, who lived in downtown, and he was bragging about how he was out all night looting. Our friendship sort of declined after that (I hadn't thought of that before right now). At the time, we were told that the best way to handle the mistrust between the "community" and the cops was to have "community organizers" come up with solutions (the first LA riots were in 1965 and we were told they happened again because cops and politicians had devised the "solutions"). We thought it was behind us. Then, 30 years after I suspected that "community organizers" weren't going to have the answers, the Floyd incident occurred and, despite being held elsewhere in the country, caused a whole new round of riots in Long Beach. Now, the police aren't allowed to do anything and the court system's hands are tied. I now live in what was once safe Orange County, 2 miles east of where I lived in 1992. The crime has moved east and looting doesn't require a reason and faces no punishment. Stores are closing around me and theft is rampant (home invasion, retail theft, personal theft, mail theft). And cops do nothing out of fear of reprisal. I live amongst multimillion dollar homes. The most amazing thing to me is to know that there are decision making (voting) adults who haven't heard about this history and didn't learn the lessons from it. Maybe that's just a function of getting older and learning from "experience." My dad once said to me when I was a teenager, "young people think they're so creative--like everything hasn't been done before." Boy was he right. I guess I'm living it because I'm one of the few people from that time period who hasn't moved out of California. Most of my friends are long gone.
Dave is right. in the US, the state has to invite the US Army in because the 10th Amendment reserves plenary police powers to the states within state territory because the threat is not coming from outside the US. Martial Law would take longer to implement than in the UK. The President is Commander and Chief of the US Army, but the US Constitution madidates that the US Army be used solely to neutralize or prevent imminent threats from outside the US borders. The President cannot usurp the powers reserved to the Governors of each state by the US Constitution.
Popo medic was also a paramedic. A lot if people in medicine and law enforcement have a somewhat dark sense of humor/gallows humor. It's a way of catharsis for dealiing with the horrific things and situations they see.
About calling out the national guard or the military; the response time of the units would depend upon where they are and how heavy their weapons, ammunition, armor and the supplies they carry are.
These riots required a heavy response by well armed and supplied troops. You can see the trucks at the end of the clip. Those are heavy trucks and they do not move quickly.
The men weren't ready to reapond. How many weren't even at the base. They were home or on leave. Command cannot just throw in whatever they have on hand, they had to call everyone in and wait for them to respond.
They had to set up the trucks with fuel and all that. Set up the equipment set up the supplies, round up the soldiers, stage the trucks to move out and move them into the area in a coordinated manner.
It took them 4 days to get those heavy troops mobilized and into the areas of Los Angeles where they needed to be. Could it have been quicker? Possibly; but if they had rushed in with a limited number of poorly supplied soldiers and then had it gone sideways for them it would've been very bad.
They would've been worse off than where they were at in the beginning and they would've been worse off than if they'd done nothing at all. They had to wait until they could round up and mobilize enough of their strength to where they were confident that it wasn't going to go sideways. You know, it took 4 days.
Naw, regular citizens could put it down. ZERO need for troops. Police could have put it down but the mayor ordered them to let the rioters run free. So the police went around and organized the citizens into fire teams
What training does the average person possess that would allow them to function as a unit, maintain discipline, and have any idea what the ROE for civil unrest is? You're talking about mobilizing a mob to counter another mob, which is a recipe for disaster.@@user-po3ev7is5w
I was in the hospital watching this on TV from the room. My first child was born hours before this started. The US was on fire and now Sublimes song about this day is my son's anthem.
You can't use the military against civilians in the US. That has to be handled by the police or National/State Guard. That's why every state has its own state level military force that is commanded by the Governor. Each Governor is essentially the "President" of his state. POTUS commands national level troops that can only be used in foreign wars/invasion. Governors command state level troops that can be used either as police units, disaster assistance, or they can be called up to serve at the federal level and be deployed in wars.
You also have to realize who you're dealing with in the US. The civilian populace is just as well armed, or better armed, than infantry ground troops except for things like mortars, rockets, explosives, and the ability to call in air support. If you start sending in armed ground combat troops and engaging people then that's going to be a green light for everyone with a rifle to start shooting back. It won't be pretty.
More Po Po Medic for Ash!!!! Cheers you two! Scott L Ritchie
S. Korea has mandatory concription for all males at age 18 for 2 years. That means every Korean male has military and firearm training.
Dave is right, it happened so fast, saw it happening, animals.
“Why slip in the jokes?” 😂😂
This intro music sounds like it could have been in Cyberpunk 2077!
The problem with the trial of the cops was the media coverage. While the media showed a very edited version of the video to the public, the jury saw the entire very-long video which presented a very different picture from what the general public saw on TV.
And in 2024 K-Town is thriving! So good. ❤
Military was indeed ready to go during this, but were not allowed to intervene by order of the governor of California Pete Wilson.
Each state has National Gard. But they can only be deployed from and order from the Govenor of the state witch they reside, President or the Defense secretary.
bro i hope you guys keep making content, losing you from office blokes, i can at least take that as consolation. i actually love you and ash doing content
Just a correction, the Korean immigrants were not from North Korea, they are from South Korea. South Korean men are required to serve for 2 years in the military to maintain its force as one of the most powerful in the world. And a lot of the veterans of the South Korean army and marines during the LA Riots served in Vietnam before where the Koreans were even more feared by the Vietnamese more than the Americans.
After 2020-2021 in the USA made me realize just how fragile society can be. Glad I live in a country where law abiding citizens can easily own firearms.
2nd AMENDMENT !!! 👍☝️
Under South Korean Law, most able-bodied men must perform 18-21 months of military service.
When I learned about the rooftop Koreans, it truly made me proud to be an American, because unlike you guys across the pond, this tightknit group of ethnic people’s in America stood up against a rioting horde with their freedom’s as American’s
Please more of these. And I love both of you. Thanks for entertaining me. Much love from America
It's much harder to declare marital law in the US than the UK.
Remember, on of the big incidents that eventually lead to USA rebelling against England in the 1700's was the British armies mishandling of protests against the crowns exorbitant taxation policies. British troops firing on protrstors in what became the Boston Massacre and the subsequent declaring of martial law in the city of Boston afterwards fed American discontent and where among the first sparks if what would ignite the revolutoon.
Because of this the right to protest in the US is protected much more stringent manner. Even in the face of violent protests the State level and federal governments have their there hands tied in ways their British counterparts do not. At the state kevel , the governor has to declare a stat of emergency before he can call in the national guard(which are the well regulated militia of the 2nd amendment of the Constitution ) these are part time soldiers not active duty.
For the federal government to get involved requires a Executive order from the President, temporarily suspending the Posse Comitatus act(the law that prevents the active US military from operating missions within the United States ) this order has to be very specific in its goals and for a set limited time. This type of order has only been issued a few times, during the US Civil War,. For a few months after the September 11th attacks(allowing American troops guard important civilian infrastructure like the NYC subway, the shippingnpors, US airports and train stations) and In New Orleans to assist the a national guard and state and local emergency services after Hurricane Katrina to perform rescue operations especially with helicopters and boats.
The handling of protests is alongside the handling of free speech and freedom of the press(the US government cannot stop news outlets from reporting a story like the British one can by issuing a black notice) two of the major differences between The US and UK particularly
with how the government feels with protests and dissent.
it is impossible in the USA. Read the constitution.
Every able bodied person is part of the militia. There's the organized and unorganized militia. Everyone not in the National Guard is part of the unorganized militia. This is why you don't have to be a part of a state militia to own firearms. Its also a right enumerated to the People, not the militia.
@@oldscratch3535Correct. The 18th century definition of "militia" was the total body of citizens that could bear arms. Our Founding Fathers were part of the "militia" in the British colonies on North America. They had weapons in some cases SUPERIOR to what their army had. Their army being colloquially called Red Coats
You guys should look into what the weather underground movement did all over USA.
ALSO, if you want to hear a great song listen to Sublime's "April 29th 1992". Yes, the date/song title is from these riots.
Banger
I live in Koreatown, LA. It's sad to see those same Koreans still being terrified of a virus with a 99% survival rate. Most of my neighbors still wear a freaking n95 mask, even in their cars.
Koreans wore masks before covid...it's good manners in Korea to wear a mask when you have a cold
I was team lead/manager at a very large retailer in the US during George Floyd riots and they started to loot us and when I heard the commotion on the radio I came out the back bathroom and ran up front to find my boss walking off calling the cops and all my guys running off like he told them to and my stupid pissed off self let my lizard brain take over and I just ran at them yelling every curse word in the book to scare them off and it actually worked and they dropped most of the stuff but there were already 13 of them inside when I came out so a couple got some stuff and some stuff that was dropped like laptops and tablets were broken by the impact. The only one to stand up to me was a girl because I guess she knew I wasn't going to throw the first punch but after few seconds she ran too and then I shut one of the doors they busted through as my boss was still afk, I then made sure no one else was inside or easily able to come inside.
Once the cops got there they found a purse and at least one wallet and basically got like 3 people immediately in the same area and then used the IDs and purse to identify like at least 2-3 more plus someone lost a shoe somehow while busting through the door creating broken glass which I'm fairly sure felt real good on their foot because I think there was a bit of blood somewhere around there too so that was cool assuming I remember correctly. I was lucky though cause even though I had my benchmade knife on me (high end military style/issue, I just like the quality and its legal in my state) and my gun in my truck I still would've been dead if enough of them jumped me because obviously I wasn't running at them with the knife or anything its just something I always have on me. I did almost grab a broom handle though but I figured that would immediately get me fired and start a fight I probably wouldn't win especially if any of them had any weapons of any sort.
Anyway point is yeah I agree with everything y'all said, I don't know anyone that agrees with what happened to George Floyd but those riots weren't the answer and I'd say made more people have a tendency towards at least some racism or stereotyping than if nothing had happened but regardless the crazy thing was that the only one of my guys that was up there with me (he was actually outside still and I had unknowingly locked him out once I ran all the looters out, my bad man) was black and he was just as pissed as me at the 13 looters (and me for locking him out with them lmao) all 13 of which were also black so its like y'all said definitely protest but don't use someone's death or mistreatment as an excuse to do immoral things, I couldn't care less if you break the law but riots and looting are only going to worsen whateven cause you're supposedly doing it for
I was 110 miles from the Killdozer incident. There was discussion of the Governor sending the Colorado National Guard. But we have guarantees in the constitution against using troops against civilians. Even in the event of forest fires there is days to a week or better for Governor getting troops to a fire. National Guard units are most often under the direction each state minus long term active duty by the US Department of Defense.
The constitution of the country states that federal military forces cannot be used for law inforcement. State national fore’s may be but not the U S Federal Forces..
Ash is right. The governor of California at the time should have ordered the National Guard to step in immediately and take control of the city, which he has power to do. (The Guard has battalions just about everywhere in California, likely several in LA.) He also should have immediately called the president to ask for the US military to step in as well, as there are several bases not far from LA. Don’t understand why he waited so long. Wait, it was Pete Wilson who was governor at the time, loser, explains it all. The police officers should have been convicted. But OJ should have been convicted - it all depends on your jury pool. After the riots, Rodney King said, “Can’t we all get along?,” but then went on to commit more crimes. I don’t get the looting either. There’s never justification for that, and they only hurt the neighborhoods they live in, and cause injury or death to innocent bystanders who usually are on their side.
No. If the city leaders withheld the cops from maintaining order it isn't the Guards job.
@@user-po3ev7is5w The Guards are always called in to help the local police, or to take command.
@@BigBilly-io3kfso? WTF does that have to do with what I posted?
Not to start any fights here, but this is exactly what happened with the Kyle Rittenhouse situation in Wisconsin. People started rioting in Kenosha, burning and looting businesses. Kyle went to go help someone he knew defend their business. Got attacked, shot back.
Did you ask him out already seems like you’re in love 😅😅😅😅😅
@@Sam-gx9mf Literally just commented facts from the case.
@@Sam-gx9mf You're mad a pedo and a woman beater got shot huh?
@@joshuawiedenbeck6944Shut the fuck up, he was 16-17 years old. His family drove him across state lines where he then armed himself.
You're talking about the Jacob Blake riots, that's where his deal spawned from
You should react to the Rodney King footage
Have to watch the trial.
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LA riot must have been the worse. Police couldn't handle that shit. Military stepped in and brought order.
The army is not allowed to be mobilized on American soil.
I was in the thick of it back then as a young black teenager. It's a funny story now but it was quite scary back when it was happening. I was in the store at the time playing Street Fighter 2 turbo (playing as Ken), when the store owner said I had to leave the store. I was slightly upset, because for one; I was winning with my shoryukens, and that was my last quarter. So mid hadouken, the owner looks at me like I didn't understand the assignment and ushers me out of the store. As I'm leaving, I see Korean store owners on the roof top holding guns while everything is in complete chaos. Needless to say, I hopped on my bike and peddled as fast as I could home.
I also want to add that, black people and other groups were helping the store owners out, but it wasn't necessarily broadcast. The guy yelling it's not right was one of the different people helping to protect the store owners, but it was overwhelming still.
As with the Floyd riots (which I'd say were worse because an already uniquely terrible situation was going on and both events mentally broke people to a degree that they haven't come back from), both were spawned from shitty unjust situations and then a couple days later they lost all meaning and everyone turned on each other.
george floyd didn't die by the cops he was a drug addict and he held a pregnant mother at gun point just like a year before. it's better off that he is gone bro. there are other incidents which do call for justice but that one nah
Wrong on both accounts.
@@ahoyforsenchou7288 no
God bless our 2nd Amendment
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@@timhefty504 😂😂😂
Let's hope he will come back as a fresh electrified OB Dave.
I highly recommend SAS: Rogue Heroes!
Oh. So leaving the bloackes?
military cant operate on us soil, only national guard and they are not on base.
Do your research... Koreans were disarmed by the police 🤔
Then the Korean stores were looted and burned 😢🤷
Stand Your Ground !!!!! ✊🤬
I met a guy that was in his younger teens here at the time. He said most of the looting was at stores that were price gauging and under cutting pay for staff. The undercutting of staff was because they were paying under minimum wage because there wasn’t enough jobs.
I lived thru the riots,....that's not true. They were looting EVERY store they saw....from Mom and Pop corner stores on up.....including major department stores and shopping malls
If a place charges too much, it goes out of business unless nobody else is willing to pay to put a store in the area.
Ash you really should watch the video where Rodney King got beaten...
Typical. Ash knows knows nothing about it and says the cops should have been charged.
Crap like that irritates me.
Cope. When shit hits the fan, you can’t rely on cops anyways
@@alittleaccurate3080 That has nothing to do with what I said.
You want them rewarded? They went beyond the call of duty.
@@danielcoa2189She doesn't know the story and labeled the cops guilty. Are you dense?
Are you deaf? She came to a reasonable conclusion after Dave aptly summarized the incident to her.@@robtintelnot9107
Lost all respect for Ash.
Not the whole story. Protest was also in retaliation for the little girl Latasha Harlan getting shot in the back of the head by a Korean store owner in South Los Angeles a year before. The woman thought she was stealing Orange juice because she (allegedly) forgot she put it in her bag and even though the girl who was angry threw the money on the counter got into a scuffle with the woman and ran out of the store she was shot in the back of the head. obviously they had camera footage that showed what happened, the woman got a small fine and community service and let go. That's why they targeted the Korean stores.
That would only explain why they would target 1 korean store.... the fact they destroyed every single one they could find was just pure racism. It was more like a small scale ethnic cleansing.
I get why people would be mad about that, it's just that it's no justification to target an entire racial group as whole for it.
@@michaelcome9447 I never said it was, just giving the full story. Everything in America is racial and political. Asians and Blacks have had just as much tension in the community just as much as everyone else. I don’t condone it but it is what it is.
@@LukaDonesnitch statistically it's a very 1 sided thing
@@nullakjg767 Did you say that during the pandemic when Brads were beating y’all and old lady’s in the streets? Btw did you get your statistics from Diane Yap?
Odd...Donut Operators whole channel is about defending police brutality.
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Why do I get the feeling there's no truth in that...
@@michaelcome9447 Donut operator is a former cop. Must of his videos are explaining why a "bad shoot" was actually "justified." He's the kind of guy who defends the Uvalde police. Remember law enforcement found they did everything correctly.
@@Mr_DopeyHe calls things as he sees them justified as well as f@cked. Various camera angles and body cams before addressing a shoot. Odd how having more information can truly inform an audience.
@@danielrupp7578 He is 1000% biased, and he often calls bad shoots, good. He is propaganda for police.