![This is Ken Lee, one of the infamous "Roof Koreans" from the LA riots. [426x650 - 320KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/BjR8Xh.png){kind=link}
Wiki says Judge Lee was born in '75. LA Riots were in '92. Does the person in the red shirt look 17 to you?
Have you considered that the pic on top shows Rooftop Koreans and not Ken Lee specifically, like the bottom one?
The first line of the image implies the subject of the photos is the same Ken Lee. "This is Ken Lee" is convictive.
His early life shows that he grew up in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles and was 16/17 during the LA riots. He very likely was present, and helped in the defense of his parents shop.
I don't think he's the famous Rooftop Korean in the red polo from that picture, but most probably someone else in the background (as they look younger).
That top image is an "iconic" image from that time and shows several Koreans on the rooftop, with one obviously being prominent in the foreground.
The error you've made is making the assumption that the person that "This is Ken Lee" is referencing is the one in the foreground in the red shirt and not any one of the other Koreans from this famous photo.
Without marking the subject or specifically noting "This is Ken Lee in the red shirt", it could reference any of them in the image. Actually, the one in the back right in the yellow shirt does look about 17 to me, and his ears also appear to me to stick out some similarly to Judge Lee's ears in the bottom image.
Looks like it could be a 17 YO young man to me. Looks like the same guy...
As a man who grew up in both that era and in that area, that red shirt Korean is 100% 16-22 years old. Same guy? Looks like it to me.
Post pubescent Korean men look 25, 55 or 105 with hardly anything in between.
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