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Race Related”
After hearing about the four police officers who were acquitted of the police brutality charges towards Rodney King, a sense of anarchy floated around the Los Angeles basin. Many different races of shopkeepers (including my father, Stuart a.k.a. Skip Hunter) defended themselves and their possessions while angry mobs attacked the streets with total disregard for the law. The majority of these rioters were African American (Black) and Latin Americans (Latino) (Stuart Hunter Interview). Local fire fighters had too few workers for the number of calls they were receiving, and the police force was largely outnumbered for the task at hand. Thousands of citizens used this ability to riot to their advantage in order to acquire many different everyday supplies by looting their local shops, which they relied upon before the riots started. Also, many people felt that because local authorities were outnumbered and many other people were looting and destroying property, rationalization or justification was easy to come by. An article in the Los Angeles Times titled “L.A. Rioters Set Fires, Loot Stores; 4 Die in Violence” informed the general public about the crimes that were being committed and the devastation that riddled Los Angeles, although they lacked the specific information to better inform the citizens about specific details.
Before my father, Skip Hunter, owned his own construction business he was the full owner of a hardware supply store named “Hunter Hardware”. He owned the store for seven years until the riots began. He had many different “regulars,” people who often came to the store to purchase supplies for their businesses. Most of the people who purchased his products were either Black or Latino and he never suspected anyone who committed a crime in his store (petty theft), based on the color of their skin.
“Unlike many store owners who closely watch certain people snoop around their store and not...
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