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To: energyplay who wrote (34593)	5/9/2008 2:30:25 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) of 217712

During the 1992 riots protecting West Hollywood and Beverly Hills seemed to be the best the cops were willing to do. We all assumed it was safer for the cops up here than eleven miles south, or even five blocks south. Thousands of people seemed to have no problems making the ten mile trip north from where the trouble began to the narrow streets, not too many blocks south, to loot and burnt down hundreds of businesses like Sammy's Cameras and further east in Korea town. The cops basically abandoned those areas filled with expensive homes and businesses with expensive inventory. Tow trucks and other large utility vehicles were used to break open businesses. In Korea Town the owners were often on the roof firing weapons. Only 53 people died, which was fortunate given how severe and widespread it was. None of the people who lived in these war zones had left because they had no expectation that thousands would drive ten miles north and start burning and looting. Once it had begun people locked themselves in their homes. The police absolutely refused to respond. We had LA County Sheriffs and Beverly Hills cops with shotguns stationed on a lot of main roads, and a dawn to dusk curfew with cop cars racing everywhere at high speed without sirens. I think they decided to protect everything north of Wilshire Blvd. The night with the worst arson fires and rioting, Thursday April 30, I went to one of my friends a block away who had a sleep over "curfew party" and dinner for a group of about forty. We watched the fires from the balcony and heard gunshots all night. Two days later the Marines finally arrived from Fort Pendleton. Who would have expected to see that in "laid back" Los Angeles. ******** It brought back memories of stories my Grandfather told me about a trip in 1914 when his Mother took he and his brother and sister from West Hollywood to visit their Dad, in Moscow and her parents in Kishinev, Besarabia (now Chisnau, Moldova). The took the SS Siberia to Kobe and then a couple of smaller ships to the Siberian railway. Everything was fine on the way in. But then the July strikes turned into riots in St Petersburg and Moscow. My Granddad recalled seeing their neighbor across the street shot in the head while watching from his third story balcony in Moscow. When they left a few months later food was in very short supply especially in the countryside, due to the farm labor being conscripted by the military, and Russia's serious losses in the early battles. The rail trip out took three times longer than normal passing villages burnt to the ground by the Czar's troops confiscating food for the army. The only food they could buy for a good part of the journey was a rotted sausage and one loaf of bread bought at a price equal to what she paid as a couple of months wages for her servant Sugano in California. They finally got back to West Hollywood in January 1915. My Great-grandfather never got out, later remarried and had a daughter. The balance between a normal society and complete chaos is often measured in hours.** .

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