Hispanics in 1992 riot (war, general, Mexican, Asians)
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whites were pulled out of their cars and beaten, what about hispanics? were they victims of the 1992 Los Angeles riot? What if it was a Hispanic who looked white like hispanics from South American countries?
It would depend on who attacked you in these riots. Half of the people arrested for rioting, and a third of the people killed in the riots were hispanic. So I would guess if you were white hispanic, and a hispanic attacked you, it might go better for you if you knew spanish. If attacked by a black rioter, then you might get a brick in the head like Reginald Denny.
However, the Korean and Asians were hit the hardest with property damage, as their businesses were targeted the most.
A much as people woud like to paint the LA riots as a black thing, truth is Hispanics were willing participates in the chaos as well.
Like mofford said, the targets were whites and Asians.
It's more complex than that. Latinos were both perps and targets. Indeed, blacks targeted Latinos just as much as they targeted whites or Asians. It was a war of black rioters against everyone else.
Hispanics were the targets just as much. The black vs. Latino gang wars in L.A. began with the riots. Before the riots Latino gangs fought black gangs only in a very few neighborhoods
In general, Latino rioters tended to be Central American, and were concentrated in and around downtown L.A. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans didn't participate much in the riots, no more than whites. (In general, only blacks committed violence ; Latinos, however, and even some whites, participated in looting.)
The old barrios of Northeast and East LA saw virtually no rioting. The gangs in some neighborhoods like Echo Park stood on the roofs of stores armed ready to shoot looters, This didn't get as much media coverage as the Koreans did in Koreatown.
Yeah Hispanics got it too. there was that guatemalan guy, they beat him down ripped of his clothes and spray painted his nuts. This happened near where they beat down reginald denny, he almost died. There is alot of Hispanica business in and around Koreatown and in South Central, they got it too.
(In general, only blacks committed violence ; Latinos, however, and even some whites, participated in looting.)
This. After the violence, which was a relatively brief and perpetuated by blacks, several days of looting took place. There were a lot of Hispanics who participated in that.
Yeah Hispanics got it too. there was that guatemalan guy, they beat him down ripped of his clothes and spray painted his nuts. This happened near where they beat down reginald denny, he almost died. There is alot of Hispanica business in and around Koreatown and in South Central, they got it too.
I remember that, they cracked his head open, then they spray painted him (parts of him) with black paint and then said "You black now" and laughing. All caught on video. A black minister came to his aid.
I remember a riot in Miami in 1980, Cubans were attacked, some of their shops torched down. I remember that a very old Cuban driving his Impala was beaten to death. At that time, there were only Cubans, no Hispanics in the Californian sense. They also burned shops owned by Spanish and Italians and they had an absolute hate towards Jews.
They also did not have any love lost for Haitians, Jamaicans and West Indies.
I distinctly remember pick-up trucks packed with Cubans and Americans driving to the NW to protect their shops, that was before the arrival of the National Guard.
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