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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
We lost control of an entire major city for a week? I'm talking dead bodies everywhere, no police force whatsoever, total lawlessness?
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On a red-hot August night in 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded with racial frustration. Six days later, 34 people were dead, hundreds more injured and a wide swath of South-Central L.A. was scarred with burned-out buildings and looted stores.
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This is one of the more memorable ones...but there were many...many.