Random thoughts on Westlake riots

I have some random thoughts on the recent Westlake LA riots which ran for 4 days/evenings straight and ended last week. This is in extremely impoverished pico-union/Westlake/rampart district 1 mile west of LA DWTN. I have been there several hundred times last 30 years and know that area well. It has long been ghettoized and appears to be as packed with recent Hispanic illegals as it was in the mid-late 80's, when i did a number of trips there.
It is well known in the Hispanic immigrant community that Westlake is where one can obtain any fake doc's or fake ID's. It is in fact a zone where assorted shady businesses can be set up, dealing with anything from shady fraudulent immigrant attorney services to medi-cal mills to phony doc mills, shady med-clinics, ect. It is in fact a true freemarket business enterprize zone, operating almost 100% in the infamous LA black market and catering mostly to the large recent Hispanic immigrant(illegal)community, though many of the business owners are Chinese/Koreans/other ethnicities who are very adept in running black market businesses.

As far as the riots go, the business owners would back the police 100%. They remember the Rodney King riots in 1992 when roving gangs pillaged their businesses, and Korean shopowners were up on rooftops with shotguns guarding their shops.

LAPD, LA politicians, and community activists have to draw a fine line here. Any giving in to or appeasement to the rioters gives them carte blanc to rob/pillage Westlake, which the LAPD has been trying to clean up recently. It would be a black eye upon the huge LA immigrant Hispanic community to have their ghettos going up in smoke on national news, and bad politics for them and their fellow Dems. A citywide spread of the Westlake riots, with mass looting, pillaging and throwing objects at Police would instantly move 10% more Americans into the anti-illegal camp, when already 70-80% of Americans want tougher measures against illegals.

My prediction, made just before riots ended a week ago on Sept 8th , was that the community leaders, LAPD brass, and local politicians would assuage the rioters with promises to have more friendly policing and attempts to meet needs of the impoverished community. These will only be promises of course and nothing gets done but the leftist LA/CA Dems needed to buy time by assuaging and massaging the feelings of the community for only a couple more months, till after the Nov elections. It was a halfway sellout to the rioters, mixed with arrests by LAPD against a few ringleaders to appease the law-abiding and anti-illegal folks.