# @ryanalexh on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXZmJEyEZCR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69915077-ryanalexh-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-21T16:13:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ryan Alexander Holmes (何仁安) (@ryanalexh) — https://gondola.cc/ryanalexh

## Caption

During the LA riots media coverage outlets repeatedly showed images of Korean shopkeepers with guns on rooftops and Black residents looting stores, which made it seem like a direct ethnic clash rather than a broader uprising against systemic inequality. That framing flattened the bigger context of poverty, over-policing, and lack of investment, turning complex grievances into a more sensational, conflict-driven narrative.
At the same time, the judicial system’s perceived inconsistencies, including harsh policing in Black neighborhoods, leniency in some cases involving non-Black perpetrators, and lack of accountability for police, fed a sense that justice was unevenly applied. This unevenness created fertile ground for resentment to be redirected laterally toward nearby communities, rather than upward toward institutions.
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#rooftopkoreans #lariots

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