In 1992, the last time Angelenos’ rage over police brutality boiled into an uprising, large swaths of South Los Angeles burnt to the ground.
Instead, demonstrators have descended on some of Los Angeles’ most upscale, iconic retail areas, including Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Hollywood and the Fairfax district. Looting has occurred in some of those locations, as some used the cover of what were largely peaceful protests to rob stores.“We want to go to places of white affluence so that the pain and outrage that we feel can be put right in their faces,” said Melina Abdullah, one of the leaders of Black Lives Matter.
In the wake of Floyd’s death, other protests across the country seem to be following the same tactics. Demonstrators have marched through retail strips in New York, Chicago and Atlanta in the name of Floyd, a black man who died as former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.. Three other officers who stood by and at times also tried to restrain Floyd have not been charged.
“I went with great pride and joy,” Ali said. “A young child in my neighborhood had been executed ... and [the shopkeeper] didn’t serve any jail time. I had the mindset that by damaging their property, they were getting everything they deserved.”They smashed windows and spray-painted buildings. He said he watched as others set buildings on fire.
Looking back, Ali said those actions were some of the biggest regrets of his life. This time, he flew to Minneapolis to take part in the peace marches there and to clean up after they devolved into destruction.Earl Ofari Hutchinson lived through the 1965 Watts riots and the 1992 civil unrest. He said the current protests look vastly different. The earlier events were mostly black people protesting in the streets.
The scene in the Fairfax district left dozens of shops shattered, many of them small businesses. Some merchants — already reeling from coronavirus closures — said they supported the movement but could not understand why they were targeted.“We’re barely getting over the virus,” said Ricky Flores, whose Melrose Avenue clothing store was looted.Crews Monday painted over the words “RIP GEORGE” scribbled in black spray paint on the tower of the Farmers Market.
And that is fair ? That is simply war on people who do not want to participate and forcefully were invaded by the unrest . There is too much hatred in America and the protests and looting both exacerbated us and sent us back 30 years .
ChrissyCmc It’s all liberal controlled...Dems worried? No they’ll just ramp up abortion clinics, tell them they need it.
Because there’s not much to steal there.
Antifa knows that the gangs would kill them if they tried to loot and burn South L.A.
The New World Order isn’t the life I want to live. If you guys don’t get this is the way we are headed, you’ll be regretting your “feelings” about this when we get there. All of our lives will be destroyed.
Read 'Ghettoside,' by Jill Leovy. At one point it became required reading for all LAPD. This LATIMES piece is a fascinating and important article!
I love 'journalists' who turn off the Comments section in their article for fear if being called out. Seems eerily familiar to what is happening now.
Because the skinny kids would be SHOT DEAD- GANGSTERS DONT DANCE THEY BOOGIE. They’ve been run out by the big boy’s- Antifa has nada on the crips/blood/cholos!
Why the fuck you showing a picture of the pier in Santa Monica (West LA) for an article about South LA?
Yeah because they wanted to steal all the high end shit in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Melrose. Great way of proving Trump is correct. Lawless blue states let this happen.
HOLY SHIT! Look at what I just found. BLM BlackLivesMatterDC Dems4USA LosAngelesProtests
Maybe — just maybe — South Central LA has suffered enough over the years?
They need to get up to Beverly Hills and into where celebrities live.
If the American anti-racist movement achieves independence, it can expect happy days for the American people. The situation in the United States is the same as before the collapse
Looting has occurred in all of these locations. Not some.
Anti-racist crowd targets areas to destroy by race. Fixed it.
Maybe because they are funding the rioters with orders to not enter the HQ location.
There's better drugstores in the affluent neighborhoods
I see y’all
Not to mention that’s where most of these crooked ass cops also live
Simplest consideration: With few or no exceptions, protestors are unarmed. Take it to Watts? 18th? Boyle Heights? Gonna have quite a few folx packin'. Soon as one of these punk-ass cops' kindergarten-ass attention span for restraint runs out, and they pop one... it's game
Simplest consideration: With few or no exceptions, protestors are unarmed. Take it to Watts? 18th? Boyle Heights? Gonna have quite a few folx packin'. Soon as one of these punk-ass cops' kindergarten-ass attention span for restraint runs out, and they pop one... it's game
It is all untouched.
We love to see it.
Omg
And y’all better keep it that way! Don’t be coming over here and doing that shit.
They don't rob their ownnow do they. They don't have shet. Now if they had jobs or careers they be home owners and productive citizens. We couldn't ask for more but.....
Biggest Bs Story I Heard Ever ... Blocking all News channels on YouTube as well
Brilliant
Great! Thanks everybody for severely damaging my neighborhood in Santa Monica.
fuckers
So what you’re saying is that the BLM organizers are directly and financially responsible for the damage to LA’s neighborhoods. At least business owners will know whom to sue. Great work LA Times 🤣
This is some sick class warfare shit
JulianJabbar
Why is the thumbnail of Santa Monica, when that's nowhere near south LA?
looters better stay out of my neighborhood if they want to go back home alive. just saying.
Ya looting in the hood doesn’t sounds as fun as free LV purses 🤦🏽♀️
Thanks. I will go propose riots in south LA
Actually white people and cops are the ones WHO started the crimes
Unblock asshole
The white supremacists are butt hurt. They hate to see Black ppl protective and in control of their community
Here’s a thought that the so-called “protesters” don’t understand , how about protesting with no rioting? But I guess that’s like expecting a dog not to pee the carpet. UNLESS OF COURSE YOU BEAT OBEDIENCE INTO HIM. 😘
That won’t matter. They lost any love or sympathy from anyone in the area. Nobody will forget. 🇺🇸
So it is a designed coordinated attack. This only confirms what everybody already knows..
We tore rioted all over L.A. in 92 and nothing has changed in 2020. After those riots papers like continued in the American media’s tradition of criminalizing black men and forming and perpetuating the narrative of us as thugs and savages.
There’s better stuff to steal uptown. South La. is where you go to sell it
Don’t be thinking this is going to improve your standing with business owners. if you didn’t feel welcome in their stores before, you certainly won’t now
South Central*
Why don’t you go and try to riot in South Central L.A and tell us how that went?
INCORRECT. The wealthiest areas of old money are untouched. TONS of lower income areas were looted and damaged. A handful of higher end RETAIL areas were damaged and looted. They'll be fixed within months, while all of the lower income areas will suffer for decades. AGAIN. AGAIN.
Yeah the white owned stores are directly responsible for an idiot officer in Minnesota. Californians really are quite stupid.
kzshabazz It’s SOUTH CENTRAL!!! Stop with the Erasure of Black History MF !!!!
Yeah downtown Long Beach is wealthy. What a joke.
So all of the small businesses that were destroyed were rich people? B.S.
LIES! Go see the wonderful protest going in that the media is not posting. No one normal & peaceful want chaos. Only the chaotic people that want this unrest to succeed. trulyListen
I bet that got some voters in your side
What's that saying about great minds kzshabazz ?
Steve_Sailer they need their weaves
The only issue with this, and it's been a long time since I've been there, but SM, of all the affluent areas in LA was one of the more accepting liberal beach towns. Like, a college town. It could have changed dramatically, but I would not have designated it as the problem
They won’t shit where they sleep....come on now
Ah yes, organized riots - glad someone admitted that the violence was a planned part of the 'peaceful protests',
The same happens during the fires are you new?
Flatter...I am done playing your picks. Your picks are like 1 for 70. I think i'll stick to a blindfold and darts...i'm better off.
Explain LongBeach VanNuys Hollywood The organizers of this terrorism weren't LOCAL Same terrorists who burned down EU + UK Same fkg THUGS Same fkg Daddy using kids + wetware 2 do their bidding
They locked down Beverly Hills last night. No one cares if they burn their own neighborhood down. Mess where the money is and things get real!
from this article, it sounds like the organizers knew full well that looting would occur beforehand.
So protestors designed unrest and didnt want to do it in their own community? But I thought it was supposed to be peaceful? Premeditated unrest?
Ah yes, the elites. Like the ones in Santa Ana Orange County (where the city is largely occupied by minorities) or San Bernardino, where again everyone is a minority. Are you guys really even news
Santa Monica is South LA?
There is a message there
Isn't this basically a form of terrorism? Using intimidation for political gain Because we know at times it turned violent. J/S. I'm all for gathering and voicing opinions, as long as its peaceful. Things do need to change but this isn't how.
Great, I see the national guard is being used to protect the citadels of the privilege.
This picture of Santa Monica 😄, which did get looted. Nowhere near South Central, which got jacked up back in 92'. Good Job El Segundo times
I came to a different conclusion after reading this. These retailers say 'nah' then cash the insurance check, close the stores (brick n mortar dying anyways), leave state (people leaving already), set up in a state with less taxes, and go all online. 🤔
They should go into the celebrities neighborhoods...see if they will still bail them out😂
South L.A. is still a mess. Too many bad criminal folks. Illiteracy, gang problems, poor excuses for illegal acts, teenage pregnancies, bad drivers, ignorance, dirty streets. The BLM movement can march down there and clean it up. Solve those bl- on-bl murders.
Thank you LA Times for your bright outlook on the city’s civics.
Animals.
The best part is couple years from now these same ppl will be bitching about their extra taxes to rebuild their shitty communities
'South LA'? You mean Torrance? Or do you not want to say South Central?
It’s South Central LA. Don’t alter history.
My neighborhood, Fairfax, was destroyed in the 1st night of violence. 80 businesses gone. 100s of lives destroyed. We are not elites. We are multi-ethnic working class. Why haven't they attacked movie stars' compounds or the studios if elites are their targets. I call BS.
Times still not condemning the riots.
LAPD would have been even more Brutal in South LA! They were horrible as it stands! JusticeForGeorgeFloyd EndUSPoliceBrutality BlackLivesMatter
STOP TALKING ABOUT SOUTHLA we're still underdeveloped, economic deprived, food desert.... Santa Monica & Beverly Hills will get the money to REBUILD cd8 vermontmanchester
Some groups tweeted a “hit list” of specific cities on the Westside. They also talked about going into neighborhoods. If that’s the case, they should be prepared to face private security, armed and trained to stop them. LARiots2020 LANeighborhoodsThreatened
Sounds racist. Just saying.
cmteed Protecting the rich ...
ooo maybe we should take the protests over there, so that everyone can participate and unite
Many affluent American neighborhoods are designed to be hard to reach by the poor. This allows the rich to stay in their bubbles, insulate themselves from the hardship of the poor & make ruthless business decisions. W/o poverty staring at you in the face, it’s easy to tune it out
By design so they could loot better stores 😳
TraceTheBricks
Aren't they eating their own? The elites who live there are the ones who were going to pay their bail. Stooooopid
Nobody told y’all to tell everybody that we’re chillin
Wtf is wrong with you!!!!
I can’t say I live in an elite neighborhood. It just happens to be around the corner from the Hollywood LAPD.
Evidence it is more of a class war IMO.
funny how they avoid Koreatown. those guys are fierce.
What? Did the LA TIMES just called the protestors racist?
“We want to go to places of white affluence so that the pain and outrage that we feel can be put right in their faces,” said Melina Abdullah, one of the leaders of Black Lives Matter. Sand People are worse than blacks
Rodney King was a bigger p.o.s. than George Floyd. George would have never met Derek if he wasn't trying to pass bogus 20$ bills at a store. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes... I will be buying more guns and ammo... blacks are worthless...
And this is good, somehow? Being racist in the other direction doesn’t EndRacism, does it?
You loot our stores you get popped. 😎
None dare call it Terror
Thank you to the protestors. I live in south LA and it has been generally quiet.
Yes but no one thought about other parts of this city which also have social economic issues. There was no reason to loot Van Nuys.
It’s almost like if you ignore a big problem it’ll come and find you. The problem is deep racial bias against black people by society, specifically police. The more y’all push it under the rug and focus on the symptom (riots) then it will ALWAYS come back. FIX the main issue!
But they still hit up Van Nuys and other areas of LA inhabited by low income and minority communities tho 🤷♂️🙄😒
Way to go, now expect a NEW CRIME BILL
Wait... but all the LA elites posted the black squares n stuff. Dont these protesters know how woke the white LA liberals are?
They forgot to notify the rest of the country. Black business owners are grieving over the loss of life-long efforts to feed their families and serve their communities. Literally, destroying everything they had to the point they can't rebuild. Totally devastated. /Real nice/
Now law abiding people that live in South L.A will have less places to work and hang out . Genius move!
love this! BLMLA PplsCityCouncil DocMellyMel ricci_sergienko Blklivesmatter Mvmnt4BlkLives
South L.A. largely untouched by unrest. So far, so good for me, too. I studied and outsmarted BlackLivesMatter For years I've been living in the shittiest shithole around. It's so bad, looters give me half their shit. I'm smelly and dirty, but, my white privilege is intact. ha
There's a reason the military formed a barricade around the rich's strip malls. This is a class war.
Now do Beverly Hills where all the woke Liberal Elites live who are helping to fund bailing out the thugs who have been burning down and looting CA.
Wow. Just wow. Clearly no solution lies ahead. You are calling for unrest in every community, LA Times.
This is good now more people can see what the left really wants to do to every home and every family in America. Time for LAW AND ORDER.
Good riot = location, location, location! Organizers need to choose carefully. Govt offices helps attract media. Main thoroughfares helps guarantee police response. High end stores help attract looters. Public transit allows for anonymous participation. antifa BLM OWS
Organized domestic terrorism.
The race & class war has been going on for decades. They have every right to fight back.
I just saw my city destroyed and my “hometown paper” endorsing the destruction..
And?
I noticed that El Segundo , where your office is located was untouched .
The police chief need to resign or be fired along with the police commissioners, start fresh with a civil complaint board, police evaluations, training courses maximum hours on record. Did you know a hairdresser put in more hours of training than police.....
They are staying out because we have the rooftop Koreans and Mexican gangs, it’s smart, antifa should stay out...
This will be reassuring to the small business owners ( mostly minority ) that had their lives destroyed .
Funny before this I remember all the articles and idiots on twitter claiming that South LA was now “gentrified “ and white people had taken over .. Funny how that works ..
Read the room. Holy shit.
That is because those young WHITE Anarchist breaking windows and setting fires would be shot. Notice the didn't go to EAST LA either? I dare you...
It happened because twitter trended it after 1 tweet
Bring the rage? Are you supporting rioting, looting and violence?
South LA is barely touched because the biggest component of the unrest is white antifa militants. Antifa isnt stupid. They know theyd end up in an early grave if they went there. It's the same for east LA. Heavy latino influence early grave. Both areas have high gang activity.
looking forward to a holmby hills protest
IT’S SOUTH CENTRAL!!
LA Times explaining why RoofTopKoreans SidewalkSikhs BakeryBoyos MadMexicans and FairfaxJews are armed to the teeth to stop the Democrats' FakeRaceWar CommunistRevolution
Businesses should leave California.
Coincidentally Blackout Tuesday landed on the same day of Hillary Clinton's federal hearing for deleting emails....
By design? Or maybe because wealthy areas mean better loot. You are so insightful, tho. 🙄
“The current civil unrest looks like a little United Nations, with more whites and other ethnic groups involved in the protests, and even the looting and burning, than blacks,” he said. “The new equation that’s there today but absent in 1965 and 1992 ...
Soros GeorgeFloyd
Idiots.
I had the mindset that by damaging their property, they were getting everything they deserved.” They smashed windows and spray-painted buildings. He said he watched as others set buildings on fire.
They probably weren't intentionally targeting white people. That would be racist. They just didn't want to get their asses kicked by Latino gangs
MatthewACherry 'If you have a critique for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.” – Jesse Williams Humanitarian Award Recipient
Same with SF
Now lets find an answer to this ?: IF the outrage over GeorgeFloyd's MURDER was real with the Rioters, why would that outrage/pain end at South L.A.'s door? Their outrage/pain didnt stop 'em from destroying businesses of Black residents in Cities OR from injuring/killing them.
stillgray where is that post where they claimed that the people posting on social media telling people to go into wealthy enclaves were Identity Evropa? Lol
Santa Monica is not south LA.
Same happens during fires
SOUTH CENTRAL * WTF IS SOUTH L.A.?
South L.A.untouched,eh?!Hmmmm.
Also Gangs are protecting large areas
The whole fake narrative of 'systemic racism' in the police force is by design. . . . This whole imposed anarchy is by design. The left has created this monster and know wants to explain to us how they created it?
F**K you LA Times! I am an American and Latina Any city in America that gets looted hurts us all. Opportunities are lost. Many of us have small businesses in these areas. South LA is shithole! There is nothing there to loot. But nice try.
when this says south LA... no joke i think like... hermosa ... manhattan beach... torrance..
You guys make it sound like it’s Ok they didn’t touch So LA glad they didn’t but there’s nothing out there and secondly not every black person lives in south LA , You no what’s out there food 4 less McDonald’s Beauty supply, No Trader Joe’s within 20 miles
MSM and your globalist NWO masters own this nightmare. Justice is coming. EnemyOfThePeople NewWorldOrder NWO
WTF? We all have free will. Anyone out creating mischief and mayhem chose to do so. When your bad choices effect others, the line has been crossed. Our govt's job is to protect the law abiding, innocent, not the agents of anarchy & insurrection.
The animals should loot and burn their own properties and leave the innocent people alone.
Not everyone there is racist so fuck the looters Protest, yes. Destroy, no. Protest because this country sucks right now. And has. I guess even under Obama. votebluetosurvive
Lower/middle class eating the lower/middle class while the rich remain unaffected*
nice to point out how rioters destroyed and burned down jewish neighborhoods
Reminder. Media involves itself in election interference when their chosen candidate may be harmed. FakeNews If you were prosecuting a trial you’d be guilty of withholding evidence.
Maybe more of us would read it if it wasn't so ridiculously overpriced. 👇
So it’s a criminal conspiracy.
Next place- Merrick, Long Island, NY
Hmm looks like RACISM 😂 usually those who throw bricks pick the color they assault
As it should be
BlueLivesMatter
That’s the picture they chose, but literally two blocks away was trashed. Great job pandering.
“Don't worry so much about money. Worry about if people start deciding to...”
Still won't fix their murder problem. This is all cosmetic. In 2019, there were 7,407 black homicide victims. The police fatally shot 9 unarmed black ppl & 19 unarmed white ppl.
So what? WAR TO THE PALACES
I don't understand why it is so difficult for people to understand that this article is about how the protests are happening in places OTHER THAN South LA.... like SANTA MONICA, which is why there's a photo of the entrance to the Santa Monica Pier.
South L A is not untouched.....maybe from looting, stealing & vandalizing, watching what occurred elsewhere lost any sympathy or respect for Black Lives Matter or colored people I normally lend a hand, help, donate, etc for anyone... not now, blacks got nothing coming
Sounds like Melina Abdullah is a terrorist.
'Black Lives Matter organizers wanted to bring the rage over the George Floyd case and so many others to L.A.'s elites, in their own neighborhoods.' That's racist. Nothing good to destroy at home?
South LA is not Santa Monica
And racist
The misleading photo undermines a superb article.
The didn’t include VanNuys in the brilliant plan to avoid economically distressed areas.
The inherent problem is that these affluent white areas are not racist simply because there are few black people there. The reasoning is flawed. If you want to truly fight racism, go to rural white areas.
adrielhampton Yeah we dont go to poor neighborhoods, thats the people, we are fighting the power and they are in rich neighborhoods
Psychotic headline.
Good.
a wealthy white LA boomer I know is absolutely furious that Santa Monica has been harmed and tried to insist to me that these protests are worse and more violent than '92. easy to see why she would think that
why is that the picture? are you suggesting the sm pier is in south LA? misleading & dumb
Hey, maybe with enough media attention, the looters and vandals will redirect themselves?
haha these guys plan it out. they know who what hurt and what not too😂
Yeah! 👏🏼✊🏼
Chill 😳 Don't blow up my spot
The Santa Monica pier pic is there to make ppl click on the article, it's a famous destination
Thanks for being the welcome mat to help the unrest spread to other places.
Of course “they” did..
Stunning. Brave.
Niga destroying my pier
Probably, they all live in that area...don’t need to mess up that one up.
elakdawalla So what you're saying is, L.A. is largely untouched by unrest. That is by design.
With a photo of the Santa Monica pier?
like a movie,like a movie set.
Since when is the Santa Monica pier in “South LA”?
More endorsement of criminal behavior-a young white immigrant in the 60's working at his auto repair shop late one evening was confronted by two robbers in an area adjoining Watts-they shot him dead in cold blood for a couple of bucks-I guess should have protested/rioted then VP
Considering nothing has been rebuilt since 65 and 92, they finally got smart. Wealthy areas will always be rebuilt - and the white areas have long exploited/enjoyed the benefits of redlining.
“Instead, demonstrators have descended on some of Los Angeles’ most upscale, iconic retail areas, including Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Hollywood and the Fairfax district. Looting has occurred in some of those locations”
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