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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.”
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Author describes breaking up a gang unity meeting in the days after the riots
— Jun 29, 2025 02:57PM
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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.“
— Jun 29, 2025 02:38PM
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As the author imagines his plan being executed, he homes and whispers the Phil Collins song in the air tonight to himself
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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.
— Jun 29, 2025 02:13PM
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Captain Chet Monroe, a black man, was the unit commander of Lenox Station for several years and was near retirement on April 29, 1992
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Describe secretarial staff at the station being all black women and sworn deputies being all white
— Jun 29, 2025 01:56PM
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“Citizen against cop no matter what – that was the overall mindset.”
— Jun 29, 2025 01:46PM
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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.
— Jun 29, 2025 01:43PM
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Brags about beating an unarmed man after a vehicle pursuit.
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