"Not completely true or historically accurate. In the '65 Watts riots they went after Jewish and white owned business, burning many to the ground, and complaining they were not represented by the white mayor and mostly all white police force, which they claimed police brutality due to racism."
That's unadulterated BS!
first of all the burned and looted buildings were a result of a mafia type retaliation for not paying them off. we did the reconstruction of several buildings after the Watts Riots and the burned ones were pre marked to be hit and in a lot of cases when they were broken into they emptied all the filing cabinets a burned the records along with the building. On one building, owned by a Jewish gentelman, he was screaming "I paid, I paid, I wasn't supposed to be burned. the looting by locals was an aftermath of the window smashing and burning by the mafia types.
As far as the deaths, the reported number was a total farce. One of my black employees that lived in the area said that there were well over a thousand in the morturaries in his neighborhod. I personally saw dump trucks being loaded with debris cleaning up burned out buildings with arms and legs hanging out of the loaders and they went to the dump.
The L.A.P.D. wasn't allowed to act like they were military but the Sheriffs dept. sure did picking off snipers with automatic rifles.
Mafia??
Never heard of that one. Got a link?
The L.A.P.D. wasn't allowed to act like they were military but the Sheriffs dept. sure did picking off snipers with automatic rifles.
Didn't need to, the National Guard was there within about 24 hours or so.