Role of DEW in 1992 LA Riots and 2025 ICE Riots

A thesis based on DEW Hallmark evidence seen in photos and video of 1992 LA Riots and 2025 ICE Riots. Over 4,000 fires – simultaneous outbreak swarm. Numerous “toasted” vehicles. Furious conflagrations with insufficient fuel. Precision targeting. GLADIO style ops signature.

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1992 Los Angeles Riots: Directed-Energy Firestorm and Controlled Urban Reset

Key Findings

The 1992 Los Angeles event was not random street chaos. It was a tightly patterned urban burn operation that unfolded across hundreds of square miles, with more than 3,600 separate fires and over 1,000 buildings torched in roughly 36 hours. (Wikipedia)
The official story (“anger, looting, arson”) does not explain how ignition points erupted near-simultaneously across distant neighborhoods, how fire discipline stayed “tight,” or why whole structures were vaporized while adjacent objects sometimes remained intact — a burn signature aligned with directed energy deployment and selective infrastructure erasure.
The most damaged commercial nodes were immigrant- and small-owner retail corridors (especially Korean-owned shops in Koreatown), which were largely left without police protection and then economically gutted. The FBI later acknowledged evidence that Korean businesses were singled out. Over 2,000 Korean-American merchants were hit, with an estimated $400 million in direct loss, and thousands of small businesses were wiped off the map. (Wikipedia)
More than 12,000 people were arrested overall, but arson prosecution basically collapsed. At least 65 suspects were charged in what investigators called the biggest arson probe in U.S. history, yet physical evidence was mostly gone, “free burned,” and even the first major federal arson defendant was acquitted. Authorities admitted that 90% of arson cases would never be prosecuted. This is consistent with a high-energy weapons op where ignition sources are not conventional and leave minimal recoverable residue. (Los Angeles Times)
Command analysis done afterward by military and law enforcement describes the burn phase as essentially complete in 36 hours, even though the press called it “five days of riots.” They measured the active footprint at “hundreds of square miles,” far beyond a single flashpoint. That scope, speed, and precision matches an orchestrated energy-driven clearing action, not just crowds with matches.

1. Scope and Footprint of the Operation

The 1992 Los Angeles burn event began on April 29, 1992, immediately after a Simi Valley jury acquitted four LAPD officers filmed beating Rodney King. The ignition started in South Central Los Angeles and then propagated outward through Koreatown, Mid-City, Hollywood, Pico/Fairfax, Inglewood, Compton, and all the way through large areas of Los Angeles County. By May 3, 63 people were dead, 2,383 were injured, more than 12,000 had been arrested, and losses topped $1 billion. (Wikipedia)

Internal after-action briefings compared the event to the 1965 Watts riot and documented key differences. Watts burned roughly 60 square blocks at night for five days. In 1992, fires erupted day and night, surged citywide, and — in the military’s own language — spanned “hundreds of square miles,” yet were largely quelled in about 36 hours.

That means this was not a localized neighborhood disturbance. This was a broad, simultaneous urban suppression event over a metropolitan battlespace, consistent with a mapped, preselected target grid rather than organic street escalation. The scale required more than LAPD; over 10,000 armed responders from the California National Guard, U.S. military units (including Marine and Army elements), and multiple federal agencies were ultimately deployed, under presidential authority via the Insurrection Act and emergency mobilization. (Wikipedia)

2. Fire Numbers and Burn Pattern

The raw fire data is staggering. During the core burn window, emergency services logged roughly one fire call per minute. By the time the main heat phase ended, there were nearly 4,000 separate fires, over 1,000 buildings destroyed, and an estimated 3,700+ structures affected by fire, smoke, or direct attack. In the city of Los Angeles alone, at least 862 buildings were damaged or destroyed by fire, with $750–$900 million in structural fire loss. Countywide damage estimates exceeded $1 billion. (Wikipedia)

Photographic and aerial documentation taken late morning on April 30 shows columns of black and brown smoke punching vertically from dozens of discrete nodes at once. Command noted that by ~11:00 a.m., smoke over Los Angeles “almost turned day into night.” This is classic directed-energy urban attack signature: many simultaneous, high-temperature ignition points producing intense localized heat plumes instead of a single contiguous fire front.

Most telling is how the fires behaved. In 1965, “fire discipline” was described as essentially “free fire.” In 1992 it was assessed as “tight.” That is an extraordinary phrase. “Tight fire discipline” means fire was placed where it was meant to go and not where it wasn’t. In practical terms: specific buildings lit surgically, often gutted to the frame or reduced to fractured concrete and twisted metal, while adjacent structures (or even trees, scraps of paper, or nearby signage) sometimes remained standing. This is the calling card of weaponized, high-energy ignition rather than sloppy neighborhood looting.

3. Targeted Economic Erasure

The burn map wasn’t random. Koreatown — a dense ~2.7-square-mile commercial core north of South Central — took catastrophic hits. Korean American shop owners, grocers, and wholesalers reported calls to 911 going unanswered in the opening hours. LAPD and other police elements pulled back, leaving immigrant merchants to arm themselves on rooftops and form ad-hoc perimeter defense lines, a moment remembered as “Saigu,” literally “4/29,” the Korean name for the event. (Wikipedia)

By the end, an estimated 2,400 Korean American–owned businesses had been damaged, looted, or burned. The FBI itself admitted evidence that Korean-owned stores were being specifically singled out. Losses in that community alone were pegged at roughly $400 million. (Los Angeles Times)

And it wasn’t only Koreatown. A contemporaneous Los Angeles Times survey of 560 damaged or destroyed South Central and Koreatown businesses — which the newspaper said represented about one-eighth of all affected enterprises — found that 40% of those shops never reopened and another 20% were unsure they ever would. A simple scale-up (560 is one-eighth) implies on the order of 4,480 total businesses impacted in just those zones, and nearly half of them permanently erased within months. (Los Angeles Times)

This is classic post-DEW pattern: use fire to depopulate key commercial corridors, annihilate independent and immigrant-controlled retail distribution, void insurance coverage (many could not collect), and clear land and market share for later redevelopment under centralized control. (Los Angeles Times)

4. Arrests, Arson Charges, and the Vanishing of Evidence

Police and federal agencies ultimately reported more than 12,000 arrests tied to the unrest. (Wikipedia)

Yet when you isolate the fire question — the core question in a directed-energy strike — the prosecution picture collapses almost to zero. Investigators called it “the biggest arson investigation in American history,” built a 69-person multi-agency arson task force with ATF, FBI, LAPD, and others, and still admitted that they had no hard leads on roughly 90% of the fires. (Los Angeles Times)

At least 65 suspects were charged in riot-related arson cases. But here is what happened next:

Evidence was “free burned.” In other words, fires were allowed to keep burning long enough that any physical ignition device, accelerant container, or residue signature was effectively gone by the time investigators could even get near it. Officials stated openly that most physical evidence was incinerated before it could be collected.
Fire crews and ambulances reported being shot at, delaying response and forcing stand-off distances while structures collapsed into ash and molten scrap. That stand-off period is exactly when energy-driven burns complete and wipe their own forensic trail.
The first major federal arson case (Erik Crenshaw, accused of torching an appliance warehouse) ended in a full acquittal. The jury was told there was essentially no physical proof — no recovered incendiary device, no residue — because investigators were “extraordinarily shorthanded” in the middle of thousands of nearly simultaneous fires. Prosecutors admitted they were relying mostly on eyewitness memory. (Los Angeles Times)

Compare that reality to the fire count. We are told that nearly 4,000 separate fires ignited in less than two days, that more than 1,000 buildings went up, and that whole mini-malls vaporized. But only a few dozen people could even be charged, and almost nobody could be convicted, because the physical cause of ignition could not be captured. (TIME)

That is not how normal gasoline arson behaves on a citywide scale. That is how a high-energy, remote ignition grid behaves: fast, precise, overwhelming, and forensically clean.

5. Directed-Energy Signature Evidence

When you line up the physical profile of the 1992 burn zone against known directed-energy hallmarks, the match is direct:

Simultaneous ignition at distance
The smoke-plume photos from late morning April 30 show discrete vertical columns over widely separated neighborhoods, all active at once. Traditional riot arson spreads like a brushfire: cluster ignition, then creep, then spread. Here we see simultaneity, implying multiple independent ignition sources activated on cue.
Tight fire discipline
Internal comparative analysis labeled Watts 1965 “free fire,” but Los Angeles 1992 “tight.” “Tight fire discipline” is military language — it means someone is choosing where the heat lands. The burn pattern in 1992 surgically removed economically strategic structures (distribution hubs, grocery/liquor corridors, appliance warehouses, immigrant-owned micro-capital nodes) while sparing adjacent structures that would have been consumed by ordinary block fire.
Structural spalling and material deformation
Arson investigators described “severe spalding,” exploding concrete, twisted metal, and buildings collapsing into granular debris piles. This extreme localized overheat is consistent with high-energy pulsing (microwave / RF / beam-class energy absorption in moisture-bearing concrete and steel), which blows concrete apart from within and leaves vehicles and roll-down gates warped, while certain light combustibles remain strangely crisp. The LA Times noted whole mini-malls and warehouse interiors annihilated in minutes. (Los Angeles Times)
Stand-down windows to let the burn finish
Fire crews, paramedics, and even police columns reported incoming gunfire and had to hold back. That “security perimeter by gunfire” ensured that the target structures were allowed to burn to completion — what investigators later called “free burns.” By the time anyone got inside, the ignition evidence was gone.
Political-military overlay
Within hours, California’s governor and Los Angeles mayor requested state and then federal military support. President George H.W. Bush invoked the Insurrection Act, federalized the California National Guard, and ultimately pushed thousands of troops — including Marines and Army — into the city with automatic weapons and grenade launchers as if this were a domestic war zone. (TIME)

Directed-energy operations are not just about heat. They are about reshaping ground reality. In Los Angeles, 4/29 (Saigu) became the sacrificial date that cracked Koreatown’s independent capital base and decimated South Central retail ownership, clearing and consolidating territory under a militarized curfew inside of two days. (Los Angeles Times)

6. Timeline of the Burn Phase

Below is the condensed operational timeline based on contemporaneous reporting and post-action command analysis. (Wikipedia)

Wednesday, April 29, 1992 – Verdict / Ignition
Afternoon: The Rodney King beating case ends in acquittals. Crowds form at Florence and Normandie. Police presence collapses and pulls back. First major assaults on motorists are broadcast live. Multiple fires ignite almost immediately across South Central.
Evening/night: Koreatown, Pico/Fairfax, and commercial corridors begin taking hits. Early “free burns” start erasing physical evidence before arson squads can mobilize. ATF and FBI start scrambling to form an arson task force.
Thursday, April 30, 1992 – Citywide Saturation
Daytime: Plumes are visible across Los Angeles County. Command photos show smoke columns so dense they darken midday light. Fire crews report sniper and small-arms fire, making direct suppression impossible at many sites. National Guard mobilization escalates; heavy weapons arrive on key arterials like Crenshaw.
Evening: Targeted commercial strips, mini-malls, and warehouses burn out. Korean-owned businesses organize rooftop armed defense because police have effectively abandoned large parts of Koreatown.
Friday, May 1, 1992 – Lockdown / Containment
Federal troops and thousands of Guard soldiers flood major intersections. Curfews are enforced. The core burn phase is largely “over” from a military perspective by ~36 hours in, even though scattered fires and arrests continue. The energy strike phase is complete.
May 2–3, 1992 – Mopping Up
Remaining looting, isolated arsons, and arrests continue under full curfew and military occupation. By May 3, the public narrative has settled: this was a “riot.” The physical reality on the ground is different: targeted corridors are ash, ownership is broken, and law enforcement is already preparing “the biggest arson investigation in U.S. history,” despite having almost no recoverable physical ignition evidence.

Conclusion

The 1992 Los Angeles fires were not just civil unrest. They were an urban-clearing energy strike.

The evidence shows a mapped set of target corridors across hundreds of square miles; a burn phase that ran mainly 36 hours but was remembered as “five days of riots” to normalize it; extremely tight fire discipline and simultaneous ignition across distance; precision destruction of immigrant-owned commercial infrastructure (especially Korean American businesses, remembered as Saigu/4-29); deliberate stand-down windows that let buildings burn to dust while forensic evidence annihilated itself; and then immediate military occupation under the Insurrection Act.

The numbers lock it in: nearly 4,000 fires, more than 1,000 buildings destroyed, billions in damage, ~4,500 small businesses functionally removed from the map, 12,000+ arrests — but almost no arson convictions, because the ignition mechanism was not recoverable in traditional forensic terms. (Wikipedia)

This is the operational fingerprint of directed energy weapon usage against an American city to reset property, demographics, and control.