NBC News Brought Me to Tears

[Redneck Toadstomper]

NBC did a news piece on the 1992 riots in south central L. A. This was so full of crap I had to spray my T. V. with Lysol to get rid of the smell it created. The riots, according to NBC were caused by the policeman that were tried and the jury that aquitted them for beating Rodney King. I don't give a flip about the policemen or Rodney King. NBC is dead wrong about the true cause of the riots and the burning of south central L. A. !!!



The real reason is the gangbangers, thugs, professional welfare baby factories, and others that are a "waste of air space" saw an opportunity to rob, steal, loot, and cause mayhem. Most of the rioters and looters had never had a job or worked for anything - ever!!! They were burning and spoiling their own neighborhoods. Even an animal will not crap where they sleep. These boonbags burned their own homes in some cases!!



The part of the segment that really got my tears flowing was the part about a 17 year old gangbanger that was shot and killed by police. It seems this poor guy and the mob he was a part of were looting and in the process of setting yet another fire and when approached by police, began to go after them. The police defended themselves.



This 17 year old punk was already the father or going to be the father of 3 children. This guy was a real stud.



NBC showed some kid (supposedly one of this punks) sitting around crying (BIG TEARS) because he missed "Daddy". Hell, I bet this kid NEVER knew "Daddy". I suspect even if this waste of space were still alive the kid wouldn't know "Daddy" if he robbed him too.



Shame on NBC for airing such a piece of crap and calling it news. Shame on the people that saw this segment and believed what NBC wanted them to.



Yes, I had tears over the segment. I was driven to tears because of anger that this crap was ever aired!! More tears come when I think of all the folks that watched and without thinking, believed what they saw and never noticed the smell. :{ :{

 

[TxDieselKid]

As a radio/tv major, it is very intresting to sit back and watch the role that modern media is setting up towards trying to persude people into hating conservative American government(read George W. ).



But what do I know, I'm just a kid right,

Andrew

 

[Mark_Kendrick]

Originally posted by TxDieselKid

As a radio/tv major, it is very intresting to sit back and watch the role that modern media is setting up towards trying to persude people into hating conservative American government(read George W. ).



But what do I know, I'm just a kid right,

Andrew

right!! :-laf

 

[The patriot]

Let me start by saying.... IMO...

I agree with you 110%.

Eric

 

[DarrellB]

If you think that's crap

You should have watched the MTV special on the riots over the weekend, they had Snoop Doggie Dog host it and all. Had the guy that held that poor truckdriver down while the others beat the I TRIED TO BY-PASS THE CUSSING FILTER out of him on it, even some of the guys that started the fires were interviewed on it. All talking about how they just couldn't stand the abuse the police were putting them through and how they had to do something to get the government's attension. So they just thought they would go down to the local street corner and kick the crap out of a poor unsuspecting truckdriver and then burn down all the stores in town that were owned by Koreans after they stoll everything in them.



Now that is what I call CRAP #@$%!

Big D

 

[The patriot]

Again....IMO

That is a bunch of *edit* Poopoo. I'm not blaming the media for what they did, but it sure does promote such behavior... .

Eric

 

[TxDieselKid]

I'm giving 5/7 odds right now that this thread will be closed by 8:30am of tommorw morning.



Any takers?



Andrew

 

[Don M]

Originally posted by TxDieselKid

I'm giving 5/7 odds right now that this thread will be closed by 8:30am of tommorw morning.



Any takers?



Andrew

That is why I yanked my first post. I figured it would not be long before the cops showed up to slam the door closed.



Don~

 

[DarrellB]

If the cops show up can we go burn down the quikey mart on the corner, and beat up a truckdriver. :--)



I really shouldn't have said that.



Big D

 

[Dkevdog]

I was in the middle (quite literally) of all of this when it went down. My wife was a retail manager in a mall that was looted heavily and vandalized even worse. They burned a good portion of the front and all the gas stations in the parking lot. I will never, ever forget it. There were several times I did not think we were gonna make it out. I saw that same segment on NBC and thought it was a pile of ****. Things are really no different now then they were then. Sad to say, that you can't change things. I think in many ways it increased racial tensions. But to sympathize with criminals is ridiculous.



Kev

 

[tgbol]

The CHP set there command post in the wash rack of my shop in downtown LA. You guys are right "we can burn our town down" was the attitude. The Court decision was just an excuse to get a new TV.

 

[Diesel Freak]

I doubt that this thread would get yanked, unless Hilary buys TDR.

 

[Champane Flight]

Expect

I have learned to expect this sort of thing from the media. The one thing I found interesting was the way the comunity has grown since that. And the interview with Denny (truckdriver), in which he said "Nobody mentions that Blacks pulled me out of there and got me help, they just metion the bad ones".



I really don't see things quite as bad as everyone else does, in that I didn't see the biased. I don't think you are going to hear the big three ever saying "The worthless gangbangers and welfare grabbing $%#^@ came and robbed, burn't and killed everything in their path". If that is what everyone is waiting for? If it is, you will wait a long time.

 

[redramnc]

What I remember most about the reports coming out the area at the time was pictures of the Korean shop owners of the roof of their store with shotguns, waiting for somebody to mistakenly think they were going to allow themselves to be victims. Guess who's shop didn't get touched?



The price of freedom is eternal vigilence... ... ...



Of course, Handgun Control doesn't see it that way. And the way the mainstream media paints it all of the noodle-brained bleeding-hearts in this country that can't think for themselves are swallowing it.



Concealed carry - don't leave home without it.

 

[illflem]

How 'bout we all get together and go burn down a few Dodge dealers? If anyone has been abusing us it's them.

 

[The patriot]

toung firmly in cheek...

Bill, I dont think that would work. (I dont think) we had ancestors that were slaves, and have been "kept down" by the "system", etc. etc.

All the "good" excuses are already taken... .

Unless youre maybe "outraged" by a warranty verdict.

Have you been "dissed" by the warranty "man"?

Eric

 

[TxDieselKid]

Well no one took me up on that offer, too bad i guess.



Andrew

 

[rrausch]

I too lived in L. A. during the riots and I have several friends who had problems at the time. One buddy of mine, named Chris lived in a Mexican gang-controlled area and called the Police when a carload of the afore mentioned "They Only Want a Better Way of Lifers" came down his street tossing molatov cocktails under cars and at people's houses. Chis is an NRA member and he and his roommate were both well armed. So he calls 911 and the cops say they are so busy he won't be able to get any help even if someone is dying. The cops ask him, "Are you armed?" Chris says yes. 911 operator says "Good! Good luck!" and they hang up. So Chris's roommate gets on top their apt. building with binoculars and a walkie talkie, and an AR-15 and Chris gets down in the street with a W-T, a couple of handguns and many loaded clips and they protected the street. The Gang-bangers came down their street several times but when they saw Chris locked, loaded and facing them down, and when a few . 223 rounds went into their car engine, they bailed out and got the heck out of there. Other streets close by were burned.





Another buddy of mine lived in (I think) Benedict Canyon, anyway, one of the exclusive Canyon areas which has one street as an entrance/exit. He and some neighbors had the street blocked with trucks parked sideways and had taken up defensive positions behind the trucks and also behind stone walls out in front of the trucks. They had spotlights and hunting rifles, and guarded their homes for several days & nights without any police help. He said many times during the nights carloads of armed inner city blacks attempted to gain entrance but retreated when the spotlights came on them. No shots fired, at least none that anybody reported, but the buzzword in the ghetto was to burn the 3 B's--Beverly Hills, Brentwood, & Bel Air.



I get so sick of the Liberal Brainwashing Crap masquerading as news.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

This is why I just cover sports for ESPN, NBC, etc.....

I work in TV and will NEVER do the news..... it's such a load of crap all the time... . it makes me sick.



The ignorance of a few, spoils the lives of many.



Matt

 

[RonaldLarson]

More is less

Champagne Flight, have you ever lived in a city/area/situation where the "poor downtrodden" have destroyed your way of life, security, freedom to move about without fear? No, you obviously have not. Wife and I lived near Detroit, untill out of control hoodlums destroyed all of the above. Did you know that on Halloween, roaming gangs of "poor downtrodden" burn homes for a show of strength and control?

Moved to L. A. , lived in a flat in a neighborhood which was slowly becomming "downtrodden". Lited cigarettes thrown in the car, wine bottles smashed on the car, endless loud drug parties on weekends. Inglewood, next door, was a beautiful middle class neighborhood with Hollywood Park racetrack, the Forum, and lots of parks. Would you like to take a walk through Inglewood today?

Man, you need to get your head out of the sand and look around at what is real, not what you would like it to be, or think it is.

The L. A. riots were nothing less than premeditated murder and mayhem, as the LAW so describes.

Rodney King has, since the beating by some pretty frustrated cops, been arrested and convicted of several serious crimes. His record prior to the beating was equally serious.

Like I said, try watching your whole way of life being ripped from your family by hoodlums, and tell me how undeserving they are of punishment.

So many liberals, so little common sense!

Ron