anothermother -“To your point about the rioting: that’s what always happens in these situations. When the cops were acquitted in the Rodney King trial, LA burned (I’m too young to remember, but my aunt, a Korean giyores who grew up in that part of LA,saw her parents’ store wrecked during the riots).”
I’m chuckling about your term “LA burned”. What happened during those riots -you couldn’t really call “burned”. I guess you never heard about the riots in the 60’s after the killing of MLK -during that time most inner cities “Burned”, including LA. A lot of Jewish businesses were destroyed. But I just read that in Phila., it wasn’t like other inner cities because the Mayor gave orders to his police to shoot to kill. This stopped them from having any serious riots.