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| Harrowing account of living through the 1992 LA riots |
| 2021-03-15 |
| [AR15] I was supposed to meet my wife at Soup Plantation, a well known restaurant down the road. I couldn't get her on the mobile. When I got there and parked, there was a queasy air amidst all the shopping mall splendour and people had a frightened look in their eyes that I had never, ever seen before. The easy listening music in the restaurant was so mundane it was hard to reconcile with the outside windows, which had fire engines, police cars and people running on foot outside. I had planned to just eat quickly with my wife and go home, because I was having trouble absorbing the idea that this thing was possibly even worse than I might have imagined. I thought South Central was so far off, truth is it was about five minutes down the road. People in the restaurant were watching the television reports, which were growing increasingly more feverish and seemed to just show one new burning building every thirty seconds. I was trying to keep a calm demeanour and went to explain to my wife what was happening. All of a sudden, a woman in the restaurant screamed. A guy dropped his tray and soup went everywhere. A man was standing in the doorway of Soup Plantation and wobbling on his feet. Blood was gushing out of his forehead which had a nasty gash running right down to his ear. He yelled "They're coming! They are next door in the mall!! They're tearing everything to pieces!" You could have heard a pin drop. Then the restaurant exploded with activity and EVERYBODY was crawling over the women and children trying to get to their cars in the parking lot outside. I'm talking blind panic here, people smacking into each other like they could not give a fugg less about any human in the world outside of themselves. A guy floored his Subaru and tore the toll gate right off the booth. Everybody else was following him out, the attendant was gone. There was cars hitting each other like bumper buggies at the carnival, nobody seemed to care, everybody wanted to get out to the street. When we made it out onto the highway, I got my first look at the skyline since I left Rodeo Drive. It looked like the fires of hell were consuming half of the city. My wife was crying, she thought it was the end of the world. |
| Posted by:Sheger Thromotch7944 |
| #11 Chauvin is most certainly not guilty of murder. Here's a medically-astutute, thorough, no-BS or hedging, devastating description of the evidence -- not the bullshit autopsy with its unsupported and tendentious conclusions that were bought and paid for by Floyd's family, but the ACTUAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. BLUF: there is no medical evidence or logic to support a finding of homicide. None. All the examinations--both the Medical Examiner's and the hired-gun coroners'-- established that there was zero damage to Floyd's veins and arteries, which those of you who know anatomy (or MMA wrestling) understand are located on the FRONT of the neck. The video makes clear that Chauvin's knee was continuously on the BACK of Floyd's neck, and never even came close to pressuring the carotid or other blood vessels. Beyond the shadow of a doubt (let alone a reasonable one), Floyd was neither strangled nor asphyxiated. Didn't happen. This entire episode is built upon a monstrous and absurd lie. A wicked criminal lie, one that is destroying this nation. |
| Posted by: Unens Sholung8903 2021-03-15 22:19 |
| #10 Not fanciful at all. The entire basin went DEFCON 5 that day the jury reported. Violence spilled over to surrounding counties, hatred of the racial sort boiled over directed by blacks against whites and Asians. LA erupted in fire and dense smoke for a week. Police in LA didn’t do their job much like cops in some cities are failing their cities today. Back then gun stores were jammed with people loading up in the aftermath Lesson learned. |
| Posted by: Kofi Lumumba9140 2021-03-15 20:12 |
| #9 Apparently written in 2004, but near the end, he offers this - I started explaining to her how I thought the next ten or twenty years would play out in America, I explained to her how unless some radical political force changed things that demographics would continue to shift. I don't want to brag but I got 9 out of 10 things correct in the years to come from 1992-2004. I showed her logically how the character of nations changes according to the genes of the people who live in it, I showed her examples from Byzantium, Persia, Rome, India, etc. I told her how the government would counter-react with stringent new controls on constitutional rights to try to manage an explosive cocktail of conflicting peoples - they would have no choice but to begin to conduct themselves as an empire, how empires always ended in civil war. I tried to explain how as America weakened internally from these conflicts that her countless enemies would begin to see the wisdom of striking her once and for all as she declined in homogeneity. Unlike Rome, in a nuclear tipped world poised on a razor's edge it was possible that America would cease to exist in a single day, rather than decay over a longer period of time like ancient civilizations. So he and his Australian wife moved to Australia. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2021-03-15 16:29 |
| #8 yes, you are correct |
| Posted by: 746 2021-03-15 13:31 |
| #7 I'm kind of with you there, 746. Or he forgot and it was a .223, not a mistake someone who has one would make however. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-03-15 12:44 |
| #6 thats what I was able to get via a seach, also came up with the .204 varmit rifle. his continual allusion to is ".203" has he calling partial BS on the story though |
| Posted by: 746 2021-03-15 10:27 |
| #5 M203 is a grenade launcher, but don't believe that's what he had. Although you never know. Times were different. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-03-15 09:55 |
| #4 and whats a .203? |
| Posted by: 746 2021-03-15 07:54 |
| #3 How many Korean stores burned or looted? 2d Amendment was still in operation back then. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-03-15 07:01 |
| #2 Embellished no doubt. But scores of people were shot and killed. For half a century we have seen eruptions of mayhem and savagery resulting in great bloodshed committed by our "peaceful protestors," again and again, across this country. More will come. |
| Posted by: Gleregum and Company2547 2021-03-15 04:01 |
| #1 This reads more like creative writing than an actual account. |
| Posted by: Harry Jinelet7642 2021-03-15 02:23 |