“I’d hate to see the riots of the 1960s return, it was crazy bad. “
I lived on 13th and State in Milwaukee then. We had a jeep with a mounted machine gun outside our front door. We weren’t allowed out side at all. Louie opened the front door and looked outside. He spent the next several days in jail. We heard gunshots every night.
Same here in SF. In the Mission District, I could hear gunshots from unknown sources that came from the black Fillmore District a few miles away. I believe a lot of shotgun blasts were from cops and National Guard to keep order. I wasn't worried, my dad was in the National Guard and had access to weapons. When I was younger, he would sometimes park a jeep in front of our house making other kids envy me. Sadly, no machine gun!