<< Heh heh, learning about them in school, the only name we were supposed to use for the riots was "rebellion" >>
I was there when that nonsense broke out. It WAS A RIOT.
Unless they were rebelling against Korean merchants, liquor stores, furniture outlets and camera shops.
I live in Simi Valley, where the trial was held. We are in Eastern Ventura County, just over the line from L.A. County, which went gonzo bananas when the ?Not Guilty? verdicts came out. My neighbors and I spent the next three days, armed to the teeth, playing an aggressive form of neighborhood watch (with the tacit approval of the local Police) and CB channel 22. I found out there were about fifty groups of residents cruising the streets to keep them safe. While L.A. burned and descended into a third world nation, we did not have so much as a trash can fire. Community involvement does work.