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Author describes breaking up a gang unity meeting in the days after the riots

Author says that the riots marked the thinking of many police officers in the manner of LAPD officer. Martha Defoe: “I just felt a lot of heat. I’ve never thought that the riots were like a war. I just have a lot of heat. I’ve always had a lot of black friends — some of my best friends — but every time I look at a black person someone from the African-American community I felt a lot of anger.”

Author writes that “Korean American shopkeepers were forced to shoot at the mobs to protect their businesses – and most likely their lies M – from large crowds of violent leaders.“

As the author imagines his plan being executed, he homes and whispers the Phil Collins song in the air tonight to himself

Author claims that “incompetent “Monroe told him to stand down from executing a plan to rescue Reginald Denny inside LP jurisdiction. Author further claims that had he been allowed to do this, he would’ve single-handedly prevented the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Captain Chet Monroe, a black man, was the unit commander of Lenox Station for several years and was near retirement on April 29, 1992

Describe secretarial staff at the station being all black women and sworn deputies being all white

“Citizen against cop no matter what – that was the overall mindset.”

Served as a deputy sheriff at West Hollywood Station and worked patrol between 1983 and 1987. Promoted in 1990 to sergeant and transferred to the Lenox station where he stayed through 1994.

Father was a deputy for 27 years

Brags about beating an unarmed man after a vehicle pursuit.

In the mid 1980s, the author was a training officer in West Hollywood. His training was a light skin, black man named Larry.