1 00:00:06,625 --> 00:00:09,458 ♪ bluesy guitar music ♪ 2 00:00:09,458 --> 00:00:14,458 ♪♪ 3 00:00:19,332 --> 00:00:20,457 [Hastie] Everyone knew years ago 4 00:00:20,457 --> 00:00:24,457 that the Negro would have to be given equality, 5 00:00:24,457 --> 00:00:26,000 but in the South, 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,291 knowing Negroes as we think we do, 7 00:00:30,291 --> 00:00:32,625 we realized it would take time. 8 00:00:32,625 --> 00:00:35,625 It's...it's been compared to-- 9 00:00:35,625 --> 00:00:36,332 to straightening teeth. 10 00:00:36,332 --> 00:00:38,625 It takes a slow, steady pressure. 11 00:00:38,625 --> 00:00:40,625 You can't do it with a hammer. 12 00:00:40,625 --> 00:00:43,290 Mr. Hastie, what did you think we were 13 00:00:43,290 --> 00:00:47,290 before you began to think of us as human beings? 14 00:00:47,290 --> 00:00:49,582 Well, in a--in a way, 15 00:00:49,582 --> 00:00:53,625 we thought of you almost as a very superior pet, 16 00:00:53,625 --> 00:00:55,792 something we had to take care of. 17 00:00:55,792 --> 00:01:00,792 ♪♪ 18 00:01:02,417 --> 00:01:06,290 ♪ Jane's Addiction's "Pigs in Zen" playing ♪ 19 00:01:06,290 --> 00:01:08,125 ♪ rock music ♪ 20 00:01:08,125 --> 00:01:08,290 ♪ Yeah ♪ 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,750 [men shouting] White power! 22 00:01:12,750 --> 00:01:14,165 - ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ - [man] White power! 23 00:01:16,792 --> 00:01:19,040 [news anchor] Backcountry refugees... 24 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,834 ♪ Pig goes in the mud ♪ 25 00:01:20,834 --> 00:01:24,500 ♪ When he tires ♪ 26 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:25,917 ♪ Pigs in zen ♪ 27 00:01:27,165 --> 00:01:28,709 ♪ Pigs in zen ♪ 28 00:01:29,709 --> 00:01:31,625 ♪ Pig is nude ♪ 29 00:01:31,625 --> 00:01:33,165 [Connie] "We're here to keep the niggers in place." 30 00:01:33,165 --> 00:01:35,040 ♪ Unashamed ♪ 31 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,290 ♪ Pigs in zen ♪ 32 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:39,500 ♪ Pigs in zen ♪ 33 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:40,457 ♪ I'm talking about the pig ♪ 34 00:01:40,457 --> 00:01:44,250 [Elijah] Seventy-five police killed-- 35 00:01:44,250 --> 00:01:45,625 of my followers. 36 00:01:45,625 --> 00:01:47,542 ♪ The pig, uh ♪ 37 00:01:47,542 --> 00:01:49,625 ♪ P-p-p-p-pig ♪ 38 00:01:49,625 --> 00:01:51,750 ♪ Oh, yeah, a goddamn pig ♪ 39 00:01:51,750 --> 00:01:54,165 ♪ Let's go ♪ 40 00:01:54,165 --> 00:01:58,834 [all] ♪ We shall overcome ♪ 41 00:01:58,834 --> 00:02:00,875 [William] And if you think I'm going down there 42 00:02:00,875 --> 00:02:02,082 and pleading with a bunch of hoodlums 43 00:02:02,082 --> 00:02:04,000 to obey the law...no. 44 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,667 ♪♪ 45 00:02:09,667 --> 00:02:11,457 [news anchor] The United States government 46 00:02:11,457 --> 00:02:13,000 out to systematically commit genocide 47 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,207 on the Black Panther Party. 48 00:02:15,207 --> 00:02:17,917 ♪ Pig mounts sow ♪ 49 00:02:17,917 --> 00:02:19,040 ♪ When he's wound ♪ 50 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,582 [man] We have got to rebel. 51 00:02:20,582 --> 00:02:22,165 ♪ Pigs in zen ♪ 52 00:02:23,375 --> 00:02:25,959 ♪ Pigs in zen ♪ 53 00:02:25,959 --> 00:02:27,375 ♪ Pig eats shit ♪ 54 00:02:27,375 --> 00:02:28,125 [man] You a gang member. 55 00:02:28,125 --> 00:02:30,375 ♪ But only when he hungers ♪ 56 00:02:30,375 --> 00:02:34,040 ♪ Pig's in zen, I know, the pig's in zen ♪ 57 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:34,917 ♪ Too much ♪ 58 00:02:34,917 --> 00:02:39,332 ♪ I'm talking about the pigs ♪ 59 00:02:39,332 --> 00:02:40,875 ♪ The pig ♪ 60 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:42,375 [Norwood] The video camera revolution. 61 00:02:42,375 --> 00:02:43,125 ♪ The pig, uh ♪ 62 00:02:43,125 --> 00:02:45,834 [woman] A modern-day lynching. 63 00:02:45,834 --> 00:02:47,500 [Cle] The best three days of my fuckin' life. 64 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:48,709 ♪ The goddamn pig ♪ 65 00:02:48,709 --> 00:02:50,917 ♪ Let's go ♪ 66 00:02:50,917 --> 00:02:53,750 ♪ It gets sucked from my eye ♪ 67 00:02:53,750 --> 00:02:54,917 [indistinct police radio chatter] 68 00:02:54,917 --> 00:03:00,457 ♪ Like an eagle's claw ♪ 69 00:03:00,457 --> 00:03:03,082 ♪ The pig ♪ 70 00:03:03,082 --> 00:03:04,625 ♪ Pig ♪ 71 00:03:04,625 --> 00:03:06,750 ♪ Pig ♪ 72 00:03:06,750 --> 00:03:09,290 ♪ P-p-p-p-pig ♪ 73 00:03:09,290 --> 00:03:09,875 [man] We gonna burn the goddamn city down. 74 00:03:09,875 --> 00:03:11,709 [woman] All right! 75 00:03:11,709 --> 00:03:15,082 [people shouting] 76 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,582 [man] Damn, though. 77 00:03:19,582 --> 00:03:20,625 [shouting indistinctly] 78 00:03:20,625 --> 00:03:22,082 [Taser firing] 79 00:03:22,082 --> 00:03:25,500 [woman] He's still tasing him, babe. 80 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:26,917 - [man] Hell, no! - [gunshot] 81 00:03:26,917 --> 00:03:29,792 - Whoa! - [gunshots] 82 00:03:29,792 --> 00:03:31,792 Whoa! Oh, my God! 83 00:03:31,792 --> 00:03:34,125 [man] God damn. 84 00:03:34,125 --> 00:03:35,709 - Oh, fuck. - [sirens wailing] 85 00:03:35,709 --> 00:03:38,000 Oh, fuck. 86 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,959 - [man] Oh, my God. - [man] Fuck. 87 00:03:39,959 --> 00:03:42,040 - [man] Oh, shit. - [man] Motherfucker. 88 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,834 - [man] Oh, my God. - Motherfucker. 89 00:03:43,834 --> 00:03:46,000 [man] Oh, my God. 90 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,875 [man] Motherfucker. Motherfucker. 91 00:03:49,875 --> 00:03:51,625 [man] Motherfucker. 92 00:03:51,625 --> 00:03:53,709 Motherfucker. 93 00:03:58,750 --> 00:04:00,750 [man] They just killed that man. 94 00:04:00,750 --> 00:04:03,457 They just shot that motherfuckin' man like that. 95 00:04:03,457 --> 00:04:04,040 Hey! Hey! 96 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,207 [all shouting at once] 97 00:04:07,207 --> 00:04:08,834 [man] Y'all shot that man. 98 00:04:08,834 --> 00:04:12,709 [overlapping shouting] 99 00:04:15,332 --> 00:04:17,250 [Sacha] So do you know much about the history 100 00:04:17,250 --> 00:04:19,165 of the Los Angeles Police Department? 101 00:04:19,165 --> 00:04:22,040 You know, I--Sacha, I do know a little bit about it. 102 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,582 LA, actually all of the West Coast, 103 00:04:24,582 --> 00:04:26,834 is really bad about keeping its history, 104 00:04:26,834 --> 00:04:29,875 so you know, some of it is-- some of it's a little bit lost. 105 00:04:29,875 --> 00:04:33,834 We're an organization with about 145 years of history. 106 00:04:33,834 --> 00:04:36,834 You know, this was a small pueblo, Los Angeles, 107 00:04:36,834 --> 00:04:40,165 built on a river not very far from where we sit right now. 108 00:04:40,165 --> 00:04:43,000 Originally it was a very Western town. 109 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,332 ♪ exciting music ♪ 110 00:04:45,332 --> 00:04:48,332 [Mike] It had a very violent beginning. 111 00:04:48,332 --> 00:04:50,834 [gunshot] 112 00:04:50,834 --> 00:04:52,582 Homicide rates in early Los Angeles 113 00:04:52,582 --> 00:04:55,959 were much higher than they ever have been since, 114 00:04:55,959 --> 00:04:59,875 and so it was from the start a very violent place. 115 00:04:59,875 --> 00:05:01,875 I'm still terrified by the LAPD. 116 00:05:01,875 --> 00:05:03,208 The institution itself is 117 00:05:03,208 --> 00:05:05,250 a fundamentally evil institution 118 00:05:05,250 --> 00:05:09,208 that is only in this day partially reformed. 119 00:05:09,208 --> 00:05:12,541 It was rebuilt explicitly after the Second World War 120 00:05:12,541 --> 00:05:15,290 to enforce racial restrictions. 121 00:05:15,290 --> 00:05:18,207 ♪ upbeat music ♪ 122 00:05:18,207 --> 00:05:19,457 [Arthur] When I was 17 years old, 123 00:05:19,457 --> 00:05:23,290 the Los Angeles Police Department changed my life. 124 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:24,959 [man] This man is the symbol of the finest police officer 125 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:26,375 in the world. 126 00:05:26,375 --> 00:05:28,125 [Arthur] It was at a Halloween dance, 127 00:05:28,125 --> 00:05:29,917 and a fight broke out. 128 00:05:29,917 --> 00:05:33,375 LAPD came, and I guess 129 00:05:33,375 --> 00:05:36,165 I wasn't moving fast enough or whatever, 130 00:05:36,165 --> 00:05:38,417 but the guy hit me with the billy club. 131 00:05:38,417 --> 00:05:41,000 [man] Remember, as police officers, 132 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,082 we may only use that amount of force necessary 133 00:05:43,082 --> 00:05:44,417 to make an arrest. 134 00:05:44,417 --> 00:05:47,125 I was beat by maybe nine police, 135 00:05:47,125 --> 00:05:50,917 worse than Rodney King. 136 00:05:50,917 --> 00:05:52,082 I must have stayed in the hospital 137 00:05:52,082 --> 00:05:54,750 for maybe a couple of months 138 00:05:54,750 --> 00:05:55,750 before I even went to court. 139 00:05:55,750 --> 00:05:58,082 They didn't want any judge to see the 140 00:05:58,082 --> 00:06:00,666 condition that I was in. 141 00:06:00,666 --> 00:06:02,916 When I got out of juvenile hall, 142 00:06:02,916 --> 00:06:04,666 I was saying "Yes, sir. 143 00:06:04,666 --> 00:06:07,125 No, ma'am. Thank you." 144 00:06:07,125 --> 00:06:08,959 My--my family didn't recognize me, you know? 145 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:10,916 It changed me. 146 00:06:10,916 --> 00:06:11,959 I was wrong, 147 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:15,500 so I got what I deserved. 148 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:17,500 [man] But you think you deserved to get beat 149 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:19,959 worse than Rodney King for moving a little bit slow? 150 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:21,959 Well...no, I don't, 151 00:06:21,959 --> 00:06:24,082 but I was resisting. 152 00:06:24,082 --> 00:06:27,207 [Malcolm X] Let us remember that we are not brutalized 153 00:06:27,207 --> 00:06:29,250 because we're Baptists. 154 00:06:29,250 --> 00:06:31,457 We're not brutalized because we're Methodists. 155 00:06:31,457 --> 00:06:35,667 We're not brutalized because we're Muslims. 156 00:06:35,667 --> 00:06:38,667 We're not brutalized because we're Catholics. 157 00:06:38,667 --> 00:06:42,125 We're brutalized because we are black people in America. 158 00:06:42,125 --> 00:06:45,207 [cheers and applause] 159 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:50,125 [news anchor] In the spring of 1962, 160 00:06:50,125 --> 00:06:51,709 a gun battle between Negroes and police 161 00:06:51,709 --> 00:06:55,332 outside the Los Angeles Mosque of the Muslims, 162 00:06:55,332 --> 00:06:56,290 a sect built around the belief 163 00:06:56,290 --> 00:06:59,165 that complete separation of the races 164 00:06:59,165 --> 00:07:01,541 is the only hope for America. 165 00:07:01,541 --> 00:07:04,000 In that gunfight, one Negro was killed, 166 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,959 14 wounded. 167 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:08,959 [Mike] In the early '60s, friends of Malcolm X 168 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:11,709 set up a mosque in Los Angeles. 169 00:07:11,709 --> 00:07:14,333 One of the leading members of the mosque worked in a laundry, 170 00:07:14,333 --> 00:07:16,667 so he would bring clothes in the trunk of his car. 171 00:07:16,667 --> 00:07:19,000 He was parked about a block away from the mosque, 172 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:19,875 and he was getting out, 173 00:07:19,875 --> 00:07:22,834 and somebody came over to help him, 174 00:07:22,834 --> 00:07:26,542 and the LAPD stopped them, harassed them, 175 00:07:26,542 --> 00:07:29,125 and then began to knock them around. 176 00:07:29,125 --> 00:07:32,000 More cops came. 177 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,165 The cops invaded the mosque itself, 178 00:07:36,165 --> 00:07:40,040 and one cop was shot by another cop accidentally. 179 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,290 The cops went mad. 180 00:07:41,290 --> 00:07:43,542 They lined Muslims up, 181 00:07:43,542 --> 00:07:45,709 and they shot them in the genitals, 182 00:07:45,709 --> 00:07:47,542 and people were killed, 183 00:07:47,542 --> 00:07:51,000 including one of the acquaintances of Malcolm X. 184 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,040 Malcolm X wanted to retaliate 185 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,375 and take out cops. 186 00:07:54,375 --> 00:07:55,750 Elijah Muhammad thought 187 00:07:55,750 --> 00:07:59,125 that the nation would lose everything 188 00:07:59,125 --> 00:08:00,375 if it did that. 189 00:08:00,375 --> 00:08:04,040 Seventy-five police came over 190 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,208 to kill all that they could 191 00:08:06,208 --> 00:08:09,125 of my--of my followers 192 00:08:09,125 --> 00:08:12,416 in Mosque Number 27. 193 00:08:12,416 --> 00:08:14,333 Think over that. 194 00:08:14,333 --> 00:08:15,875 [news anchor] Some Los Angeles citizens 195 00:08:15,875 --> 00:08:17,125 believe the Muslim shootings 196 00:08:17,125 --> 00:08:19,250 so crystallized Negro feelings 197 00:08:19,250 --> 00:08:22,332 that from that point, April 1962, 198 00:08:22,332 --> 00:08:23,875 big trouble was inevitable. 199 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:27,125 [Malcolm X] Two of the brothers were shot in the back. 200 00:08:27,125 --> 00:08:29,250 Two of them were shot-- 201 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:30,959 excuse the expression-- 202 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:32,125 through the penis. 203 00:08:32,125 --> 00:08:33,417 [crowd murmuring] 204 00:08:33,417 --> 00:08:35,959 And I, for one, as a Muslim, believe 205 00:08:35,959 --> 00:08:38,290 that the white man is intelligent enough. 206 00:08:38,290 --> 00:08:39,792 If he were made to realize 207 00:08:39,792 --> 00:08:44,417 how black people really feel and how fed up we are, 208 00:08:44,417 --> 00:08:46,917 without that old compromising sweet talk-- 209 00:08:46,917 --> 00:08:47,875 stop sweet-talking him. 210 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:51,040 Tell him how you feel, and let him know 211 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,207 that if he's not ready to clean his house up... 212 00:08:57,082 --> 00:09:00,667 If he's not ready to clean his house up, 213 00:09:00,667 --> 00:09:03,250 he shouldn't have a house. 214 00:09:03,250 --> 00:09:08,000 It should catch on fire and burn down. 215 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,457 [cheers and applause] 216 00:09:11,457 --> 00:09:13,207 All right, panel, a brilliant beginning. 217 00:09:13,207 --> 00:09:15,457 Now let's see what you can do with our second challenger. 218 00:09:15,457 --> 00:09:17,542 Will you sign in, please, sir? 219 00:09:22,041 --> 00:09:24,582 Bill... 220 00:09:24,582 --> 00:09:26,417 Bill Parker, is that right, sir? 221 00:09:26,417 --> 00:09:29,457 [applause] 222 00:09:29,457 --> 00:09:31,542 [news anchor] One man who has played an important role 223 00:09:31,542 --> 00:09:33,792 in raising the Los Angeles police officers 224 00:09:33,792 --> 00:09:35,290 to a professional status 225 00:09:35,290 --> 00:09:37,457 is Police Chief William Parker. 226 00:09:37,457 --> 00:09:40,500 He has been able to create divisions within the department 227 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:42,417 to deter the Los Angeles rising crime rate. 228 00:09:42,417 --> 00:09:44,750 [Alex] William Parker, who was 229 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:47,290 the law and order chief of the LAPD, 230 00:09:47,290 --> 00:09:50,542 was probably one of the most racist police chiefs 231 00:09:50,542 --> 00:09:52,667 that the LAPD has ever had. 232 00:09:52,667 --> 00:09:55,834 [Connie] If you go way back to the beginning of LAPD, 233 00:09:55,834 --> 00:10:00,332 it started out with that Southern, racist mentality. 234 00:10:00,332 --> 00:10:01,833 "We're here to keep the niggers in place." 235 00:10:01,833 --> 00:10:06,750 Parker-- he imposed a military culture. 236 00:10:06,750 --> 00:10:08,500 [man] The Los Angeles Police Department, 237 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:09,750 through years of self-evaluation 238 00:10:09,750 --> 00:10:13,500 and constant improvement, has raised itself 239 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,958 to a high professional standing in the community. 240 00:10:15,958 --> 00:10:18,000 [Connie] But in militarizing them, 241 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,625 they didn't get rid of the racism, 242 00:10:19,625 --> 00:10:21,500 and so the racism took on 243 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:24,667 an occupying force quality. 244 00:10:24,667 --> 00:10:28,708 The white deputy chief who got assigned to Watts-- 245 00:10:28,708 --> 00:10:33,542 his unofficial title was "Nigger Inspector." 246 00:10:33,542 --> 00:10:36,332 [Alex] He recruited officers that were from the South. 247 00:10:36,332 --> 00:10:39,457 He recruited officers that he knew hated black people. 248 00:10:39,457 --> 00:10:42,040 [dog barking] 249 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,000 And he didn't care about policing the black community 250 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,542 in a way to make everyone safe. 251 00:10:46,542 --> 00:10:47,834 He just wanted to police the community 252 00:10:47,834 --> 00:10:49,207 to keep them there, 253 00:10:49,207 --> 00:10:50,875 and to keep the whites over here safe. 254 00:10:50,875 --> 00:10:53,917 Los Angeles is the finest place in the world for the Negro, 255 00:10:53,917 --> 00:10:56,417 because he has the greatest opportunity here, 256 00:10:56,417 --> 00:10:58,417 on a broad basis, 257 00:10:58,417 --> 00:11:00,875 than he would anywhere else in the world. 258 00:11:00,875 --> 00:11:05,082 ♪♪ 259 00:11:05,082 --> 00:11:08,417 [man] Los Angeles had a reputation, at one point, 260 00:11:08,417 --> 00:11:10,750 of being a good city for black culture. 261 00:11:10,750 --> 00:11:13,582 For instance, late 1940s, Central Avenue, 262 00:11:13,582 --> 00:11:14,582 the center of black culture 263 00:11:14,582 --> 00:11:17,457 and a totally integrated scene. 264 00:11:17,457 --> 00:11:19,166 Central Avenue was the drag for us. 265 00:11:19,166 --> 00:11:21,207 I mean, that's where you had all the entertainment. 266 00:11:21,207 --> 00:11:23,250 That's where all the entertainers came 267 00:11:23,250 --> 00:11:25,917 and they lived, 'cause they couldn't live anywhere else. 268 00:11:25,917 --> 00:11:26,917 You're talking about Billie Holiday. 269 00:11:26,917 --> 00:11:29,457 You're talking about Nat King Cole. 270 00:11:29,457 --> 00:11:32,207 You're talking about Sammy Davis Jr. 271 00:11:32,207 --> 00:11:34,750 When Parker became chief of police, 272 00:11:34,750 --> 00:11:36,082 he launched a campaign. 273 00:11:36,082 --> 00:11:38,082 He would arrest white women 274 00:11:38,082 --> 00:11:40,417 going to clubs on Central Avenue 275 00:11:40,417 --> 00:11:42,207 for prostitution. 276 00:11:42,207 --> 00:11:43,792 When I was a young teenager, 277 00:11:43,792 --> 00:11:45,375 the center of the world was a place 278 00:11:45,375 --> 00:11:47,040 called Dolphins of Hollywood, 279 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,040 greatest record store in the world. 280 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:49,917 Everybody came there. 281 00:11:49,917 --> 00:11:52,917 Parker actually laid siege to it. 282 00:11:52,917 --> 00:11:55,000 He had cops stationed outside 283 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,625 to turn people away if they were white. 284 00:11:57,625 --> 00:11:59,917 ♪ upbeat drum rhythm ♪ 285 00:11:59,917 --> 00:12:02,250 [Perry] Compton was all white. 286 00:12:02,250 --> 00:12:04,082 Southgate was all white. 287 00:12:04,082 --> 00:12:05,792 Huntington Park was all white, 288 00:12:05,792 --> 00:12:08,082 and Bell was all white. 289 00:12:08,082 --> 00:12:09,250 Vernon was all white. 290 00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:13,000 That was on the other side of Alameda, the tracks. 291 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,792 On this side of the tracks 292 00:12:14,792 --> 00:12:17,375 is where they allowed black people to live. 293 00:12:17,375 --> 00:12:21,917 From Central to Broadway, 294 00:12:21,917 --> 00:12:26,582 back to Imperial to Alameda. 295 00:12:26,582 --> 00:12:28,958 [Jeff] When the highway system gets built up 296 00:12:28,958 --> 00:12:31,457 during the 1950s and the 1960s, 297 00:12:31,457 --> 00:12:34,125 they're meant to be able to allow people 298 00:12:34,125 --> 00:12:37,040 to get into the downtown and out of the downtown area. 299 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,000 The suburbs are increasingly built up 300 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,667 all along these different arteries. 301 00:12:41,667 --> 00:12:45,750 White flight basically begins during the 1940s, 302 00:12:45,750 --> 00:12:47,290 and what that means is 303 00:12:47,290 --> 00:12:49,959 that who's left in the inner cities 304 00:12:49,959 --> 00:12:51,417 are basically people of color. 305 00:12:51,417 --> 00:12:55,207 ♪ upbeat music ♪ 306 00:12:55,207 --> 00:13:00,207 ♪♪ 307 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,792 [news anchor] Watts is a ghetto but not a slum, 308 00:13:05,792 --> 00:13:08,542 as the term is known in older cities. 309 00:13:08,542 --> 00:13:11,375 There are streets of trim, lower-middle-class homes, 310 00:13:11,375 --> 00:13:13,792 and there are squalid areas of condemned houses 311 00:13:13,792 --> 00:13:15,457 with people living in them. 312 00:13:15,457 --> 00:13:17,332 Two thirds of the adults have less than 313 00:13:17,332 --> 00:13:18,041 a high school education. 314 00:13:18,041 --> 00:13:20,750 One in eight is illiterate. 315 00:13:20,750 --> 00:13:21,958 Watts has the lowest average income rate 316 00:13:21,958 --> 00:13:24,833 in Los Angeles County: $4,000 per year 317 00:13:24,833 --> 00:13:28,166 compared with more than $8,000 per year 318 00:13:28,166 --> 00:13:29,332 for the white community. 319 00:13:29,332 --> 00:13:31,750 They crowd together, these backcountry refugees, 320 00:13:31,750 --> 00:13:33,542 a thousand new ones every month 321 00:13:33,542 --> 00:13:36,125 pouring into Los Angeles. 322 00:13:36,125 --> 00:13:38,834 And they find in the land of golden promise 323 00:13:38,834 --> 00:13:40,834 that there still are white lawmen, 324 00:13:40,834 --> 00:13:41,332 white merchants, 325 00:13:41,332 --> 00:13:44,165 white landlords. 326 00:13:44,165 --> 00:13:48,250 [Jeff] Watts in the mid-'60s is fully overcrowded, 327 00:13:48,250 --> 00:13:50,667 and what you see is Los Angeles police 328 00:13:50,667 --> 00:13:53,000 literally trying to figure out ways 329 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,542 to contain black folks and people of color 330 00:13:56,542 --> 00:13:58,417 in their neighborhoods. 331 00:13:58,417 --> 00:14:00,207 There was this ideal 332 00:14:00,207 --> 00:14:02,875 that African Americans can migrate to LA 333 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:04,166 and escape the racism from the South, but what-- 334 00:14:04,166 --> 00:14:07,332 what they didn't realize was that whites were immigrating 335 00:14:07,332 --> 00:14:09,457 to Los Angeles from those same cities, 336 00:14:09,457 --> 00:14:10,457 from those same communities. 337 00:14:10,457 --> 00:14:12,667 They wanted to keep black folks in our place. 338 00:14:12,667 --> 00:14:14,792 We couldn't go off of this boundary and this boundary, 339 00:14:14,792 --> 00:14:17,625 and the police were basically used to keep us under control. 340 00:14:17,625 --> 00:14:20,417 Gangs were formed, in a sense, to protect us, you know, 341 00:14:20,417 --> 00:14:21,833 from those who would come in and prey on the community 342 00:14:21,833 --> 00:14:24,082 like the Spook Hunters, you know, 343 00:14:24,082 --> 00:14:26,125 which was a group of white boys out of Compton. 344 00:14:26,125 --> 00:14:27,542 You know, they used to come down 345 00:14:27,542 --> 00:14:29,291 and prey on folks in the neighborhood. 346 00:14:29,291 --> 00:14:30,792 The Spook Hunters is the one that's the most infamous one, 347 00:14:30,792 --> 00:14:33,332 because they had that leather jacket 348 00:14:33,332 --> 00:14:35,500 with the African-American on the back of the jacket 349 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:38,542 with a noose around his neck, which seems pretty crazy, 350 00:14:38,542 --> 00:14:40,582 but that's what a lot of the guys from the 1950s tell us. 351 00:14:40,582 --> 00:14:44,417 They would catch us by ourself 352 00:14:44,417 --> 00:14:46,917 and jump out and rat-pack us. 353 00:14:46,917 --> 00:14:51,125 So that was the start of the Slauson, 354 00:14:51,125 --> 00:14:52,750 the Businessman, 355 00:14:52,750 --> 00:14:54,082 Rebel Rousers, 356 00:14:54,082 --> 00:14:56,082 the Gladiators. 357 00:14:56,082 --> 00:14:57,667 It was protection 358 00:14:57,667 --> 00:14:59,917 for our black people. 359 00:14:59,917 --> 00:15:04,332 ♪♪ 360 00:15:04,332 --> 00:15:06,417 [Dee Dee] One day, I was driving down the street, 361 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:07,582 and I saw they had these 362 00:15:07,582 --> 00:15:12,166 six young African-American men, 363 00:15:12,166 --> 00:15:14,582 you know, maybe 16 to 18. 364 00:15:14,582 --> 00:15:17,291 They had 'em just standing on the sidewalk. 365 00:15:17,291 --> 00:15:20,250 "Hands on your head," you know, "Put your hands on your head." 366 00:15:20,250 --> 00:15:23,792 Sometimes they make 'em put their hands on the hot car 367 00:15:23,792 --> 00:15:25,958 or "Lay down," lay down on the ground. 368 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:27,792 "Lay on your belly," you know, that racist behavior. 369 00:15:27,792 --> 00:15:31,000 So I pulled over, and I get out of my car. 370 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,709 I see this happening, 371 00:15:32,709 --> 00:15:34,875 and the police said to me, 372 00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:37,959 "Who are you? Are you their mother?" 373 00:15:37,959 --> 00:15:39,792 I said, "Yes." 374 00:15:39,792 --> 00:15:42,625 And so the kids looked at me, you know, 375 00:15:42,625 --> 00:15:44,917 and they--they were like, "Why did you get out your car?" 376 00:15:44,917 --> 00:15:48,332 You know, "Are you related to them?" 377 00:15:48,332 --> 00:15:51,000 I said, "I'm the mother of a nation and a universe." 378 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,792 You know, I'm all of their mothers, 379 00:15:52,792 --> 00:15:56,000 and he said, "Shuffle your feet and move on, 380 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,125 or you're going to jail for loitering." 381 00:15:58,125 --> 00:16:00,082 When I was with the Los Angeles Police Department, 382 00:16:00,082 --> 00:16:02,291 I worked in South-Central LA. 383 00:16:02,291 --> 00:16:05,833 I-I knew a lot of the people who lived there, 384 00:16:05,833 --> 00:16:09,000 and they--they depended on the Los Angeles Police Department 385 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,667 to have any kind of decent quality of life. 386 00:16:12,667 --> 00:16:13,875 [Danny] It was a horrible time. 387 00:16:13,875 --> 00:16:15,667 You didn't see lynchings 388 00:16:15,667 --> 00:16:16,917 of the sort that we were sort of familiar with 389 00:16:16,917 --> 00:16:19,667 and outraged about in the South, 390 00:16:19,667 --> 00:16:22,625 but it was the same thing, as it was a dead black man, 391 00:16:22,625 --> 00:16:23,750 or it was a violated black woman. 392 00:16:23,750 --> 00:16:26,375 You weren't on the plantation, 393 00:16:26,375 --> 00:16:28,207 but you were-- you know, you were in your car. 394 00:16:28,207 --> 00:16:30,958 I mean, I can remember a time when they pulled me and my wife 395 00:16:30,958 --> 00:16:34,000 and my son over, and just treated us awfully. 396 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,125 The question is, how many slaps in the face 397 00:16:38,125 --> 00:16:39,709 can a community take? 398 00:16:39,709 --> 00:16:41,667 The complaint that you hear everywhere 399 00:16:41,667 --> 00:16:44,125 is that the Negro is not getting the same treatment 400 00:16:44,125 --> 00:16:45,875 from the police as the white, and-- 401 00:16:45,875 --> 00:16:47,500 Well, I think that--I know, 402 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:49,542 but I'm getting a little bit weary of that, 403 00:16:49,542 --> 00:16:51,375 and I think perhaps the best thing to do 404 00:16:51,375 --> 00:16:53,417 is just to pull the police out of the area. 405 00:16:53,417 --> 00:16:54,625 I've offered to do that again and again, 406 00:16:54,625 --> 00:16:56,332 but you see how quickly all-- they come back and say, 407 00:16:56,332 --> 00:17:00,291 "We can't afford to have that," because you must remember-- 408 00:17:00,291 --> 00:17:02,332 and-and this is the thing you must think of 409 00:17:02,332 --> 00:17:03,542 when you get this vicious canard-- 410 00:17:03,542 --> 00:17:07,165 is that the great majority of the victims of Negro crime 411 00:17:07,165 --> 00:17:08,541 are Negroes. 412 00:17:10,416 --> 00:17:13,250 [Perry] August of 1965. 413 00:17:13,250 --> 00:17:14,083 It was hot. 414 00:17:14,083 --> 00:17:18,208 I'm talking about, it was...whoo! 415 00:17:18,208 --> 00:17:20,750 [news anchor] Law enforcement authorities say that heat, 416 00:17:20,750 --> 00:17:22,583 intense heat, irritates a man, 417 00:17:22,583 --> 00:17:24,750 makes him more violent. 418 00:17:24,750 --> 00:17:28,375 The tension was-- it was mounting up. 419 00:17:28,375 --> 00:17:30,416 ♪ percussive music ♪ 420 00:17:30,416 --> 00:17:34,208 ♪♪ 421 00:17:34,208 --> 00:17:35,916 [Jeff] The spark for the unrest 422 00:17:35,916 --> 00:17:38,916 comes one August afternoon. 423 00:17:38,916 --> 00:17:41,583 The Frye brothers, who have been at a party-- 424 00:17:41,583 --> 00:17:43,125 they've been drinking a little bit. 425 00:17:43,125 --> 00:17:44,458 They're speeding down the highway, 426 00:17:44,458 --> 00:17:48,290 and they start getting chased by a California highway policeman. 427 00:17:48,290 --> 00:17:51,416 They end up stopping very close to home, 428 00:17:51,416 --> 00:17:52,250 and a confrontation begins 429 00:17:52,250 --> 00:17:55,959 between the police and the brothers. 430 00:17:55,959 --> 00:17:59,834 [Perry] We seen the police pull Marquette over. 431 00:17:59,834 --> 00:18:02,250 We heard the officers calling him all kind of "niggers" 432 00:18:02,250 --> 00:18:03,916 and all this stuff. 433 00:18:03,916 --> 00:18:07,250 And his mother stayed right around the corner here on Towne, 434 00:18:07,250 --> 00:18:08,290 so she was coming. 435 00:18:08,290 --> 00:18:12,666 She was raving, saying really at Marquette, 436 00:18:12,666 --> 00:18:14,290 "I told you," you know, 437 00:18:14,290 --> 00:18:16,290 "Don't be drinking" and this-- 438 00:18:16,290 --> 00:18:18,375 but her whole thing was 439 00:18:18,375 --> 00:18:22,791 for the officer not to impound that 1955 Buick, 440 00:18:22,791 --> 00:18:26,500 and the officer-- he was gonna let Marquette go. 441 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:28,916 Then these other two racist police pulled up. 442 00:18:28,916 --> 00:18:32,458 And the LAPD does their usual 443 00:18:32,458 --> 00:18:36,083 humiliating, aggressive behavior. 444 00:18:36,083 --> 00:18:39,458 Marquette's mother jumped on the back of the officer. 445 00:18:39,458 --> 00:18:41,290 They got to going at it. 446 00:18:41,290 --> 00:18:42,165 They finally got Marquette, 447 00:18:42,165 --> 00:18:45,625 Ronald, and Rena in the police car 448 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:48,000 and drove off, 449 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,916 but the highway patrol was still here 450 00:18:49,916 --> 00:18:52,834 waiting on the tow truck 451 00:18:52,834 --> 00:18:54,290 to tow the 1955 Buick. 452 00:18:54,290 --> 00:18:59,500 A sister by the name of Joyce Gaines did hair, 453 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:01,875 and she had on a smock 454 00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:04,416 that made her look like she was pregnant. 455 00:19:04,416 --> 00:19:06,500 We were exchanging words and telling him, 456 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:09,165 "Don't impound the car, man." 457 00:19:09,165 --> 00:19:11,083 Officer said, "Man, to hell with you black niggers." 458 00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:13,125 Took her and slammed her against the car. 459 00:19:13,125 --> 00:19:16,208 When they slammed her against the car, 460 00:19:16,208 --> 00:19:16,875 man, all hell broke loose. 461 00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:20,709 ♪ intense rock music ♪ 462 00:19:20,709 --> 00:19:22,709 ♪♪ 463 00:19:22,709 --> 00:19:26,333 [indistinct police radio] 464 00:19:26,333 --> 00:19:28,208 [news anchor] It began with police and rioters 465 00:19:28,208 --> 00:19:30,083 clashing on a hot Wednesday night. 466 00:19:30,083 --> 00:19:31,083 Some believe it could have been stopped right then 467 00:19:31,083 --> 00:19:32,791 if law officers moved in in force 468 00:19:32,791 --> 00:19:36,250 and sealed off the area. 469 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:40,290 ♪♪ 470 00:19:40,290 --> 00:19:44,916 I was a young police officer working the Watts area, 471 00:19:44,916 --> 00:19:47,208 and the riots actually started on my beat. 472 00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:50,333 It was as close to anarchy as I've ever seen 473 00:19:50,333 --> 00:19:52,165 anywhere at any time. 474 00:19:52,165 --> 00:19:53,416 [news anchor] It was the most widespread, 475 00:19:53,416 --> 00:19:58,458 most destructive racial violence in American history. 476 00:19:58,458 --> 00:20:00,750 White people driving through the riot area 477 00:20:00,750 --> 00:20:02,125 were considered fair game, 478 00:20:02,125 --> 00:20:03,750 whether young or old, 479 00:20:03,750 --> 00:20:05,959 men or women. 480 00:20:05,959 --> 00:20:07,625 Their cars were battered, 481 00:20:07,625 --> 00:20:10,750 the drivers stoned, kicked, and beaten, 482 00:20:10,750 --> 00:20:12,916 and the cars were burned. 483 00:20:12,916 --> 00:20:14,791 The mobs might groan and curse in disappointment 484 00:20:14,791 --> 00:20:16,333 when a white got away 485 00:20:16,333 --> 00:20:19,583 and then cheer like a football crowd 486 00:20:19,583 --> 00:20:21,666 when a car went up in flames. 487 00:20:21,666 --> 00:20:24,791 ♪♪ 488 00:20:27,290 --> 00:20:29,416 [Danny] White people try to always call it a riot. 489 00:20:29,416 --> 00:20:31,040 It wasn't a riot. 490 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,583 You know, it was a rebellion against oppression. 491 00:20:32,583 --> 00:20:34,916 A riot is when, you know, you see these white folks 492 00:20:34,916 --> 00:20:37,416 after a football game, they're pulling down the-- 493 00:20:37,416 --> 00:20:38,375 the goalposts. 494 00:20:38,375 --> 00:20:40,208 This was about people whose-- 495 00:20:40,208 --> 00:20:43,541 had reached the boiling point in terms of the oppression 496 00:20:43,541 --> 00:20:44,541 that we were feeling. 497 00:20:44,541 --> 00:20:45,625 There was no way to contain it. 498 00:20:45,625 --> 00:20:48,375 The riot, I think, opened a lot of people's eyes. 499 00:20:48,375 --> 00:20:51,208 You know, I was very young then, and I guess 500 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:53,500 I always sort of watched The Song of the South 501 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:55,791 and those kind of things and figured all the people 502 00:20:55,791 --> 00:20:57,666 in South-Central LA were happy. 503 00:20:57,666 --> 00:20:59,250 ♪ Zip-a-dee-doo-dah ♪ 504 00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:01,125 ♪ Zip-a-dee-ay ♪ 505 00:21:01,125 --> 00:21:03,916 ♪ Wonderful feeling, wonderful day ♪ 506 00:21:03,916 --> 00:21:05,709 And it's all of a sudden occurred to me, 507 00:21:05,709 --> 00:21:06,875 it doesn't look like they're that happy. 508 00:21:06,875 --> 00:21:10,583 ♪ rock music ♪ 509 00:21:10,583 --> 00:21:14,541 [Perry] And to retaliate, it was a good feeling. 510 00:21:14,541 --> 00:21:15,875 It was a really good feeling. 511 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:18,959 [news anchor] More than 1,500 people were in the streets. 512 00:21:18,959 --> 00:21:21,583 Fifteen citizens injured, 19 officers hurt, 513 00:21:21,583 --> 00:21:23,208 31 arrested, 12 juveniles. 514 00:21:23,208 --> 00:21:25,000 More than 100 police rushed to the area, 515 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,083 sealing off eight square blocks in an effort at quarantine. 516 00:21:28,083 --> 00:21:30,458 The rioting subsided, then began all over again 517 00:21:30,458 --> 00:21:32,416 shortly before dawn. 518 00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:35,500 ♪ mellow music ♪ 519 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:39,416 ♪♪ 520 00:21:39,416 --> 00:21:40,500 [James] I got up that morning, 521 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:42,541 and I went to the neighborhood playground. 522 00:21:42,541 --> 00:21:46,375 I could see smoke coming up from across Central Avenue. 523 00:21:46,375 --> 00:21:48,959 When I got home, my grandmother told me 524 00:21:48,959 --> 00:21:50,834 that I could not cross Central Avenue 525 00:21:50,834 --> 00:21:52,959 because of the riots. 526 00:21:52,959 --> 00:21:56,125 And the riots had came down Central Avenue from Watts 527 00:21:56,125 --> 00:21:58,500 all the way onto South-Central Los Angeles, 528 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,208 and we need to stay in the house and be protected. 529 00:22:02,208 --> 00:22:04,750 My uncle, who was a street-type person-- 530 00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:08,165 he came into the house, and he had about six hats 531 00:22:08,165 --> 00:22:09,000 that he had gotten off of Central Avenue 532 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,416 when they were looting. 533 00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:13,165 [news anchor] Now in the daylight hours too, 534 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:15,333 the shattered section of South Los Angeles, 535 00:22:15,333 --> 00:22:17,165 a Negro neighborhood torn by two nights of rioting, 536 00:22:17,165 --> 00:22:20,250 left battered and bloodied-- 537 00:22:20,250 --> 00:22:22,666 now the looters, the pillaging. 538 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:26,709 I saw a lot of people that had, you know, 539 00:22:26,709 --> 00:22:28,290 three and four televisions and other, you know, 540 00:22:28,290 --> 00:22:31,040 things like that that, you know, 541 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,875 really didn't amount to a hill of beans 542 00:22:32,875 --> 00:22:34,333 compared to what we lost. 543 00:22:36,541 --> 00:22:38,250 [news anchor] What had been skirmishing before 544 00:22:38,250 --> 00:22:41,625 between police and hit-run Negro groups 545 00:22:41,625 --> 00:22:44,416 became a wholesale exercise in stealing and burning. 546 00:22:44,416 --> 00:22:47,165 [William] What do you want the policemen to do? 547 00:22:47,165 --> 00:22:48,375 Do you want to mass them in there for what purpose? 548 00:22:48,375 --> 00:22:50,541 Of pinning everybody down, or-- or what? 549 00:22:50,541 --> 00:22:53,583 [man] No, I'm simply asking you to explain what-- 550 00:22:53,583 --> 00:22:55,875 what the thinking of the police is--I have no-- 551 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:57,290 Well, the thinking of the police is, 552 00:22:57,290 --> 00:22:59,500 they have a city to protect, 553 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,583 and they can't turn all the men into Watts 554 00:23:01,583 --> 00:23:05,000 and allow all these-- the rest of the 450 square miles 555 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,666 to be open season to every-- 556 00:23:06,666 --> 00:23:10,416 every petty criminal and burglar in town. 557 00:23:10,416 --> 00:23:12,165 [man] Do you think someone like Martin Luther King 558 00:23:12,165 --> 00:23:14,583 should be down there? 559 00:23:14,583 --> 00:23:15,750 No, King doesn't-- we've got local residents here. 560 00:23:15,750 --> 00:23:19,333 King doesn't put out all the fires in the United States. 561 00:23:19,333 --> 00:23:21,250 There are some local Negroes here that are-- 562 00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:23,040 that are our leaders in these situations. 563 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,500 For us to continue to try and meet violence with violence 564 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,125 is the wrong way, that's all, pure and simple. 565 00:23:29,125 --> 00:23:30,500 See, and I'm gonna tell you something. 566 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:31,875 Tonight, there's gonna be another one, 567 00:23:31,875 --> 00:23:33,583 whether you like it or not. 568 00:23:33,583 --> 00:23:35,290 - [overlapping shouting] - No, no. Wait, wait. 569 00:23:35,290 --> 00:23:37,165 - Listen. Listen. - [man] No, no, no. 570 00:23:37,165 --> 00:23:39,208 See, they--we-- 571 00:23:39,208 --> 00:23:41,625 we the Negro people down here 572 00:23:41,625 --> 00:23:43,165 have gotten completely fed up, 573 00:23:43,165 --> 00:23:44,916 and you know what they gonna do tonight? 574 00:23:44,916 --> 00:23:46,458 They don't care--they not-- they're not gonna-- 575 00:23:46,458 --> 00:23:48,416 they're not gonna fight down here no more. 576 00:23:48,416 --> 00:23:51,458 You know where they going? They're after white people. 577 00:23:51,458 --> 00:23:53,959 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 578 00:23:53,959 --> 00:23:55,666 [news anchor] As word of the shouted threat 579 00:23:55,666 --> 00:23:58,541 to do the white man in spread by word of mouth, 580 00:23:58,541 --> 00:24:00,666 whites began to crowd the gun shops 581 00:24:00,666 --> 00:24:03,165 for weapons to defend themselves. 582 00:24:03,165 --> 00:24:04,083 ♪ blues music ♪ 583 00:24:04,083 --> 00:24:06,666 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 584 00:24:06,666 --> 00:24:08,834 ♪ Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" playing ♪ 585 00:24:08,834 --> 00:24:14,583 ♪♪ 586 00:24:17,125 --> 00:24:19,791 ♪ Now, when I was a young boy ♪ 587 00:24:19,791 --> 00:24:22,165 ♪ At the age of five ♪ 588 00:24:22,165 --> 00:24:24,834 ♪ My mother said I was gonna be ♪ 589 00:24:24,834 --> 00:24:27,375 ♪ The greatest man alive ♪ 590 00:24:27,375 --> 00:24:29,040 ♪ But now I'm a man ♪ 591 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,290 ♪ I'm past 21 ♪ 592 00:24:32,290 --> 00:24:33,500 [man] Man, take a picture. Take a picture over there. 593 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:36,333 Take a picture over there. Get him, get him. 594 00:24:36,333 --> 00:24:38,583 That--that's what they're doing. 595 00:24:38,583 --> 00:24:40,250 [man] Hey, hey! 596 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:44,083 [gunshots] 597 00:24:44,083 --> 00:24:45,583 [news anchor] The sound of the sniper's rifle 598 00:24:45,583 --> 00:24:47,959 is being heard even more frequently. 599 00:24:47,959 --> 00:24:49,500 [news anchor] And time after time, sniping 600 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:51,333 turned into full-scale combat, 601 00:24:51,333 --> 00:24:52,709 guardsmen and Los Angeles police 602 00:24:52,709 --> 00:24:56,834 responding with pistols and semiautomatic weapons. 603 00:24:56,834 --> 00:24:58,834 By the third or fourth night, 604 00:24:58,834 --> 00:25:01,290 the LAPD had actually evacuated the community. 605 00:25:01,290 --> 00:25:03,416 Once sight I've seen in my life 606 00:25:03,416 --> 00:25:06,583 that I thought was the most amazing 607 00:25:06,583 --> 00:25:11,375 is about 40 black-and-whites leaving South-Central. 608 00:25:11,375 --> 00:25:13,040 [William] Some people who are getting hurt here 609 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,666 are the police and innocent citizens, 610 00:25:14,666 --> 00:25:16,541 and the rioters are prevailing. 611 00:25:16,541 --> 00:25:17,583 And if you think I'm going down there and pleading 612 00:25:17,583 --> 00:25:21,000 with a bunch of hoodlums to obey the law...no. 613 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,125 ♪♪ 614 00:25:24,125 --> 00:25:25,959 [Karen] When Watts happened, I was 12 years old, 615 00:25:25,959 --> 00:25:29,040 and we had just moved from one side of town to the other, 616 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,208 and as a matter of fact, if we had stayed 617 00:25:31,208 --> 00:25:32,666 where we lived previously, 618 00:25:32,666 --> 00:25:34,458 we would have been in the middle of it. 619 00:25:34,458 --> 00:25:36,500 My white friends were afraid 620 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,959 their parents' stores were being burnt down, 621 00:25:39,959 --> 00:25:43,083 their furniture stores or other stores that they had. 622 00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:46,083 ♪♪ 623 00:25:46,083 --> 00:25:48,583 [gunshots] 624 00:25:48,583 --> 00:25:51,083 ♪♪ 625 00:25:51,083 --> 00:25:52,375 If you're, like, the only 626 00:25:52,375 --> 00:25:54,583 African-American in an environment, 627 00:25:54,583 --> 00:25:56,583 people expect for you to explain. 628 00:25:56,583 --> 00:25:57,541 [laughing] 629 00:25:57,541 --> 00:25:58,959 "So please tell us 630 00:25:58,959 --> 00:25:59,916 why you're all doing this." 631 00:25:59,916 --> 00:26:03,916 [gunshots] 632 00:26:03,916 --> 00:26:06,750 [man shouting indistinctly] 633 00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:10,416 They burnt businesses, 634 00:26:10,416 --> 00:26:12,416 but most of the people in this building 635 00:26:12,416 --> 00:26:15,625 at that particular time were black, 636 00:26:15,625 --> 00:26:17,500 so I guess they just passed it on by. 637 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:21,333 It was a really serious, scary time 638 00:26:21,333 --> 00:26:24,000 just to be in the area. 639 00:26:26,083 --> 00:26:28,916 ♪ soft instrumental music ♪ 640 00:26:28,916 --> 00:26:31,583 ♪♪ 641 00:26:31,583 --> 00:26:33,458 [news anchor] On the morning of Friday the 13th, 642 00:26:33,458 --> 00:26:35,000 Chief Parker called for the National Guard. 643 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,750 ♪♪ 644 00:26:42,916 --> 00:26:44,750 [Vivian] National Guard was on the street, 645 00:26:44,750 --> 00:26:47,500 coming right down Central. 646 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,083 I remember personally the tankers going up, 647 00:26:50,083 --> 00:26:53,290 you know, and the police walking down the street 648 00:26:53,290 --> 00:26:55,791 in armored gear, rifles drawn, 649 00:26:55,791 --> 00:26:58,875 and my brother and I were standing at the doorway. 650 00:26:58,875 --> 00:27:03,083 As they walked past, they just kind of looked at us 651 00:27:03,083 --> 00:27:04,250 and pointed the guns toward the door, 652 00:27:04,250 --> 00:27:05,750 for what I don't know. 653 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:08,250 Maybe to intimidate us, to frighten us, 654 00:27:08,250 --> 00:27:10,500 and they did. 655 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:15,208 The LAPD came back with the National Guard. 656 00:27:15,208 --> 00:27:17,040 They took their revenge. 657 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,290 [man] Drop that purse and get your hands up. 658 00:27:18,290 --> 00:27:20,959 Get your hands up! 659 00:27:20,959 --> 00:27:24,750 ♪♪ 660 00:27:24,750 --> 00:27:26,500 [news anchor] We know now that these have been 661 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,040 days and nights as horrible 662 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,625 as any American city has ever lived through. 663 00:27:29,625 --> 00:27:32,333 This evening, Los Angeles remains hot, 664 00:27:32,333 --> 00:27:33,875 quiet, tense, and dangerous. 665 00:27:33,875 --> 00:27:37,709 28 people killed, all but four of them Negroes. 666 00:27:37,709 --> 00:27:40,290 Bill Stout reports that figure if sure to rise 667 00:27:40,290 --> 00:27:41,875 as bodies are found in the rubble. 668 00:27:41,875 --> 00:27:43,875 Seven hundred and sixty-two have been injured, 669 00:27:43,875 --> 00:27:46,500 2,256 arrested. 670 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,333 The damage at a guess close to $200 million. 671 00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:50,834 Governor Brown has extended 672 00:27:50,834 --> 00:27:52,250 last night's eight o'clock curfew 673 00:27:52,250 --> 00:27:53,959 for another 24 hours. 674 00:27:53,959 --> 00:27:56,875 Right now, about 15,000 police and national guardsmen 675 00:27:56,875 --> 00:28:00,083 are on patrol in the 40-square-mile riot area. 676 00:28:00,083 --> 00:28:02,875 I command you to immediately disperse. 677 00:28:02,875 --> 00:28:04,375 Any persons remaining in this immediate area 678 00:28:04,375 --> 00:28:07,083 will be taken into custody. 679 00:28:09,458 --> 00:28:11,250 [indistinct police radio] 680 00:28:13,083 --> 00:28:14,875 [James] At first, they turned off the electricity, 681 00:28:14,875 --> 00:28:19,709 and then they threatened to turn off the water, 682 00:28:19,709 --> 00:28:22,208 and my grandmother decided to take us from South-Central, 683 00:28:22,208 --> 00:28:23,750 46th and Central Avenue, to my aunt's house. 684 00:28:23,750 --> 00:28:27,000 When she loaded up the car and drove us to the end, 685 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,750 where the blockade was, 686 00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:30,750 I remember the flashing lights coming down in the car, 687 00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:32,834 and the National Guard's rifles in the car. 688 00:28:32,834 --> 00:28:35,541 [man] When honoring the request of a police officer, 689 00:28:35,541 --> 00:28:37,333 when they tell you to get out of the car, 690 00:28:37,333 --> 00:28:38,834 you'd better get out, friend, or you're liable 691 00:28:38,834 --> 00:28:40,208 not to be able to get out. 692 00:28:40,208 --> 00:28:42,458 [man] I'm sorry. I'm going home. 693 00:28:53,458 --> 00:28:55,125 [Eric] It was martial law, 694 00:28:55,125 --> 00:28:56,500 and no African-Americans were allowed on the street 695 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:58,750 after a certain period of time. 696 00:28:58,750 --> 00:29:00,416 You weren't allowed to leave the city. 697 00:29:00,416 --> 00:29:01,834 You weren't allowed to travel around. 698 00:29:01,834 --> 00:29:02,875 [Martin] I've said all over America, 699 00:29:02,875 --> 00:29:06,583 and I've come out to Watts to tell you today 700 00:29:06,583 --> 00:29:10,750 that no matter how your hair looks, 701 00:29:10,750 --> 00:29:12,416 no matter what your features are, 702 00:29:12,416 --> 00:29:15,959 no matter what color you are, 703 00:29:15,959 --> 00:29:17,916 you are somebody. 704 00:29:17,916 --> 00:29:20,750 [cheers and applause] 705 00:29:20,750 --> 00:29:23,791 So speak out of your hearts, and speak frankly. 706 00:29:23,791 --> 00:29:25,416 You couldn't talk to anybody, 707 00:29:25,416 --> 00:29:26,750 because there was nobody to talk to. 708 00:29:26,750 --> 00:29:28,083 You couldn't talk to the cops, 709 00:29:28,083 --> 00:29:29,541 because they don't want to talk to me. 710 00:29:29,541 --> 00:29:31,250 They wanted to beat my brains out, 711 00:29:31,250 --> 00:29:32,791 just like they've been doing all the time. 712 00:29:32,791 --> 00:29:35,000 And the only way-- the only way of saying 713 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,750 that we can ever get anybody at any time to listen to us 714 00:29:38,750 --> 00:29:40,040 is start a riot. 715 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,416 We got sense enough to know 716 00:29:41,416 --> 00:29:43,416 that this is not the final answer, 717 00:29:43,416 --> 00:29:45,083 but it's a beginning. 718 00:29:45,083 --> 00:29:46,000 It's a beginning. 719 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,290 But who wants to lay down 720 00:29:47,290 --> 00:29:49,083 while somebody kick him to death? 721 00:29:49,083 --> 00:29:49,916 [cheers and applause] 722 00:29:49,916 --> 00:29:52,625 This is what we're talking about! 723 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:55,500 Nobody wants to lay down and get kicked in the head! 724 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:57,834 When a guy in the city hall, a police chief, 725 00:29:57,834 --> 00:30:01,500 calls the people of the United States of America 726 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:02,791 in this area "a bunch of monkeys," 727 00:30:02,791 --> 00:30:06,125 he's not worth two cents to be a police chief. 728 00:30:06,125 --> 00:30:07,709 [cheers and applause] 729 00:30:07,709 --> 00:30:09,416 Two or three days before this-- all this happened, 730 00:30:09,416 --> 00:30:10,959 these people were just about starving to death, 731 00:30:10,959 --> 00:30:12,500 waiting for the first 732 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:14,000 till they got their checks-- they needed this. 733 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,959 [man] You mean this was a continuing situation down here? 734 00:30:15,959 --> 00:30:17,290 Right, all the time. 735 00:30:17,290 --> 00:30:18,666 [man] Well, I mean, can't-- 736 00:30:18,666 --> 00:30:20,250 don't they get the money from welfare? 737 00:30:20,250 --> 00:30:22,040 I mean, we have the Aid to Needy Children-- 738 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,666 They need jobs. They need jobs. That's what they need. 739 00:30:24,666 --> 00:30:27,791 [man] What could make all the rioting stop? 740 00:30:27,791 --> 00:30:30,750 I don't think it'll ever stop, really. 741 00:30:30,750 --> 00:30:32,125 [man] Never? 742 00:30:32,125 --> 00:30:34,458 I mean, it may not be like this, but... 743 00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:36,500 it'll never stop. 744 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:40,290 [man] What will end it? 745 00:30:40,290 --> 00:30:43,125 Now, that's a question that's-- everyone want to know. 746 00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:46,666 The thing I think that would end it is 747 00:30:46,666 --> 00:30:49,333 a little more harmony on both sides. 748 00:30:49,333 --> 00:30:50,875 [man] Expressed how? 749 00:30:55,666 --> 00:30:58,125 You have me there. That's kind of hard to say. 750 00:30:58,125 --> 00:30:58,709 [man] You wish it would end? 751 00:30:58,709 --> 00:31:00,541 Yeah, it need to end. 752 00:31:00,541 --> 00:31:02,625 All the stores are closed. 753 00:31:02,625 --> 00:31:05,416 I mean, the stores what are left-- 754 00:31:05,416 --> 00:31:07,500 none open. 755 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:11,000 Get food, we--I don't know what's gonna happen. 756 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,040 ♪ piano music ♪ 757 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,834 ♪♪ 758 00:31:23,165 --> 00:31:25,083 [Bill] In the wake of the riots, some believe 759 00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:26,875 that public officials were to blame 760 00:31:26,875 --> 00:31:29,916 for failing to act or acting too slowly. 761 00:31:29,916 --> 00:31:32,916 Still others believe the police are to blame, 762 00:31:32,916 --> 00:31:34,333 and still others say 763 00:31:34,333 --> 00:31:35,875 that Negroes themselves are responsible. 764 00:31:35,875 --> 00:31:38,709 They say that many in this part of town 765 00:31:38,709 --> 00:31:41,666 are from the poorest parts of the Deep South, 766 00:31:41,666 --> 00:31:43,916 are immoral, uneducated, 767 00:31:43,916 --> 00:31:46,125 ill-prepared for life in the big city. 768 00:31:46,125 --> 00:31:48,541 And there are those who believe the riots were the work 769 00:31:48,541 --> 00:31:51,375 of an organized hoodlum gang 770 00:31:51,375 --> 00:31:53,709 whose leaders are willing to back down now 771 00:31:53,709 --> 00:31:55,666 in the face of armed might, 772 00:31:55,666 --> 00:31:58,083 to put away their weapons, bide their time, 773 00:31:58,083 --> 00:32:00,208 and strike again, harder perhaps, 774 00:32:00,208 --> 00:32:02,959 when the guard and the police have moved on to other areas. 775 00:32:02,959 --> 00:32:07,416 It's hard to tell about the enigma of Watts. 776 00:32:07,416 --> 00:32:09,709 A few things, of course, are obvious. 777 00:32:09,709 --> 00:32:11,416 One is this: 778 00:32:11,416 --> 00:32:12,750 the three-fingered sign 779 00:32:12,750 --> 00:32:14,875 that makes a crude W for Watts. 780 00:32:14,875 --> 00:32:17,416 Passing through the Negro sections 781 00:32:17,416 --> 00:32:18,791 at the height of the riots, 782 00:32:18,791 --> 00:32:20,458 you could hear again and again the cry, 783 00:32:20,458 --> 00:32:22,125 "Hey, give me three, man." 784 00:32:22,125 --> 00:32:25,250 And if you didn't hold up the three-fingered W, 785 00:32:25,250 --> 00:32:26,125 you could be in trouble. 786 00:32:26,125 --> 00:32:29,083 But that was Watts during the riots. 787 00:32:29,083 --> 00:32:31,416 Watts today is a sign 788 00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:33,583 posted by a National Guard checkpoint 789 00:32:33,583 --> 00:32:35,834 manned by three armed soldiers, 790 00:32:35,834 --> 00:32:38,625 a sign saying, "Turn here or get shot." 791 00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:41,125 Where were you in LA? 792 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:43,625 Over on the east side of town, south of Los Angeles. 793 00:32:43,625 --> 00:32:45,375 [woman] Well, that's a nice, uh... 794 00:32:45,375 --> 00:32:46,083 - Yeah. - [woman] ...neighborhood. 795 00:32:46,083 --> 00:32:48,458 - I mean, it's-- - [laughing] 796 00:32:48,458 --> 00:32:49,250 Were you there during the riots? 797 00:32:49,250 --> 00:32:50,709 - Most definitely. - [laughter] 798 00:32:50,709 --> 00:32:53,125 Look here, no, no, no, no. 799 00:32:53,125 --> 00:32:54,916 You don't say that with any restraint at all. 800 00:32:54,916 --> 00:32:56,583 No, no, not only was I there, 801 00:32:56,583 --> 00:32:58,959 I was participating. 802 00:32:58,959 --> 00:33:00,750 Yeah, and to what degree, may I ask? 803 00:33:00,750 --> 00:33:03,875 Well, you know, whatever I could pick up fast. 804 00:33:03,875 --> 00:33:06,834 How did you feel the next morning? 805 00:33:06,834 --> 00:33:07,290 Very good, sweetie. 806 00:33:07,290 --> 00:33:11,500 [laughter] 807 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:13,040 [Darnell] The legacy of 1965 808 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,791 is that it sort of brought to a close 809 00:33:16,791 --> 00:33:20,208 the optimism of the civil rights movement. 810 00:33:20,208 --> 00:33:24,000 It introduced violence as a result 811 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,666 of people's dissatisfaction with the pace 812 00:33:27,666 --> 00:33:29,000 at which things were moving in a major way. 813 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,040 And as 1965, of course, leads to 1967 814 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,250 and the long, hot summers across the country... 815 00:33:34,250 --> 00:33:37,583 pretty much every major city during this period 816 00:33:37,583 --> 00:33:39,625 experienced some type of urban uprising. 817 00:33:39,625 --> 00:33:40,959 We are running around talking about, 818 00:33:40,959 --> 00:33:44,000 "Black folks are looting." I agree. 819 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,125 There should be more shooting and looting. 820 00:33:46,125 --> 00:33:48,333 That's the only thing I agree with. 821 00:33:48,333 --> 00:33:50,916 Black folks trying to loot when they should be shooting. 822 00:33:50,916 --> 00:33:52,333 If you're gonna loot, loot you a gun store. 823 00:33:52,333 --> 00:33:55,834 [gunshots] 824 00:33:56,500 --> 00:34:00,290 ♪ funky music ♪ 825 00:34:00,290 --> 00:34:05,333 ♪♪ 826 00:34:07,709 --> 00:34:09,541 There was a Kerner Commission report 827 00:34:09,541 --> 00:34:11,916 that came out that talked about two Americas. 828 00:34:11,916 --> 00:34:13,208 This our basic conclusion. 829 00:34:13,208 --> 00:34:16,708 Our nation is moving toward two societies, 830 00:34:16,708 --> 00:34:19,916 one black, one white, 831 00:34:19,916 --> 00:34:20,833 separate and unequal. 832 00:34:20,833 --> 00:34:24,083 And that's when, in Washington, 833 00:34:24,083 --> 00:34:26,666 they pass the anti-poverty program, 834 00:34:26,666 --> 00:34:29,375 so there's a lot of money available, 835 00:34:29,375 --> 00:34:30,458 coming in the community. 836 00:34:30,458 --> 00:34:33,833 So you had all kinds of programs that were started. 837 00:34:33,833 --> 00:34:36,291 You had programs for health. 838 00:34:36,291 --> 00:34:39,166 You had programs for economic development. 839 00:34:39,166 --> 00:34:41,708 You had programs for the arts. 840 00:34:41,708 --> 00:34:44,291 [train bell tolling] 841 00:34:44,291 --> 00:34:45,208 [news anchor] Watts in 1966 842 00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:48,583 is not unlike the Watts of 1965, 843 00:34:48,583 --> 00:34:50,208 but there is one change. 844 00:34:50,208 --> 00:34:51,750 There is communication now, 845 00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:53,416 most of it by blacks, 846 00:34:53,416 --> 00:34:55,166 with blacks, for blacks. 847 00:34:55,166 --> 00:34:57,250 But some of the channels have been opened up 848 00:34:57,250 --> 00:34:58,750 by white men too. 849 00:34:58,750 --> 00:35:00,708 One of those white men in Watts 1966 850 00:35:00,708 --> 00:35:03,083 is Budd Schulberg. 851 00:35:03,083 --> 00:35:05,583 [Mike] Budd Schulberg, who wrote On the Waterfront, 852 00:35:05,583 --> 00:35:09,333 came down and helped organize the Watts Writers Workshop. 853 00:35:09,333 --> 00:35:11,125 "Because it was never there, 854 00:35:11,125 --> 00:35:13,000 something empty filled the gap, 855 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,750 and since the absence was not seen, 856 00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:18,916 all too soon the people died." 857 00:35:18,916 --> 00:35:21,083 Schulberg had the notion 858 00:35:21,083 --> 00:35:23,250 that if you gave people an opportunity 859 00:35:23,250 --> 00:35:24,250 to express themselves, 860 00:35:24,250 --> 00:35:26,208 to have some kind of artistic outlet, 861 00:35:26,208 --> 00:35:28,041 then you'd have a better neighborhood. 862 00:35:28,041 --> 00:35:30,375 You'd have better circumstances. 863 00:35:30,375 --> 00:35:33,458 And a lot of us took him up on that. 864 00:35:33,458 --> 00:35:35,875 He knew that Watts, 865 00:35:35,875 --> 00:35:37,833 like many so-called "ghettos," 866 00:35:37,833 --> 00:35:41,208 was bottlenecked energy, 867 00:35:41,208 --> 00:35:44,458 so I went to the Watts Writers Workshop 868 00:35:44,458 --> 00:35:47,375 and asked about, you know, the different classes, 869 00:35:47,375 --> 00:35:51,916 and Anthony Hamilton was the head of a poetry class, 870 00:35:51,916 --> 00:35:53,958 and after that class, he approached me and said, 871 00:35:53,958 --> 00:35:56,208 "You know what, we have a group called the Watts Prophets, 872 00:35:56,208 --> 00:35:57,875 and we've been looking for a female member." 873 00:35:57,875 --> 00:36:01,333 We weren't trying to be 874 00:36:01,333 --> 00:36:04,166 Grammy-winning musicians and poets. 875 00:36:04,166 --> 00:36:05,458 We were trying to make a difference, 876 00:36:05,458 --> 00:36:10,833 make a change, make our people feel better about themselves. 877 00:36:10,833 --> 00:36:13,333 ♪ Daybreak will find me ♪ 878 00:36:13,333 --> 00:36:17,250 [Dee Dee] "Daybreak will find me down on my knees, 879 00:36:17,250 --> 00:36:18,000 a slave to my job, 880 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,541 Lord, I've got to get free. 881 00:36:21,541 --> 00:36:22,666 A baby is born, 882 00:36:22,666 --> 00:36:25,333 but what's his destiny 883 00:36:25,333 --> 00:36:27,500 if he's black in a white world?" 884 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:29,250 ♪ A baby is born ♪ 885 00:36:29,250 --> 00:36:31,000 [Danny] They were using their craft, 886 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,750 and they were using their music, 887 00:36:33,750 --> 00:36:35,416 you know, to really explain, 888 00:36:35,416 --> 00:36:38,000 really talk about the condition of black folk 889 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,416 and talk about the inequity that existed among us. 890 00:36:41,416 --> 00:36:43,666 Up until the point that we had a riot, 891 00:36:43,666 --> 00:36:45,416 everybody said, "Those niggers are all right. 892 00:36:45,416 --> 00:36:47,041 - They're doing fine." - Okay, after the riot. 893 00:36:47,041 --> 00:36:49,500 Then when we riot-- then when we had a riot, 894 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:52,208 then the white man said, "Uh-oh, something's wrong, 895 00:36:52,208 --> 00:36:54,208 'cause you suckers are burning down my store. 896 00:36:54,208 --> 00:36:56,208 Now I got to give these niggers something, 897 00:36:56,208 --> 00:36:57,708 because I thought they was happy." 898 00:36:57,708 --> 00:37:00,208 [man] But what did he give 'em? 899 00:37:00,208 --> 00:37:01,875 [news anchor] With the bands and the floats, 900 00:37:01,875 --> 00:37:04,125 you'd think it was an Armistice Day parade, 901 00:37:04,125 --> 00:37:05,750 this second anniversary of Watts. 902 00:37:05,750 --> 00:37:07,708 Well, in a way, it is. 903 00:37:07,708 --> 00:37:09,708 Celebrating two years of peace 904 00:37:09,708 --> 00:37:11,333 in this South-Central Los Angeles community. 905 00:37:11,333 --> 00:37:14,625 The theme of the festival, black is beautiful, 906 00:37:14,625 --> 00:37:16,541 was designed to remind the young men here 907 00:37:16,541 --> 00:37:18,416 that they should be proud of their color 908 00:37:18,416 --> 00:37:19,916 and of Watts. 909 00:37:19,916 --> 00:37:22,041 One of the interesting things that happens 910 00:37:22,041 --> 00:37:23,875 out of Watts as well 911 00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:26,583 is that there's also a lot of ferment 912 00:37:26,583 --> 00:37:28,750 around cultural organizing 913 00:37:28,750 --> 00:37:30,541 and community organizing. 914 00:37:30,541 --> 00:37:33,333 The US Organization comes out of this particular period. 915 00:37:33,333 --> 00:37:36,416 We have gotten our manhood back 916 00:37:36,416 --> 00:37:38,083 by the act of violence. 917 00:37:38,083 --> 00:37:40,250 When the brother throws a brick 918 00:37:40,250 --> 00:37:42,375 or snipes from a building 919 00:37:42,375 --> 00:37:46,041 then he has just returned to his manhood. 920 00:37:46,041 --> 00:37:48,500 The crisis presented us with an opportunity 921 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,166 that we had never had before. 922 00:37:50,166 --> 00:37:52,250 That is to pull everybody together 923 00:37:52,250 --> 00:37:54,500 and get them into some constructive program. 924 00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:56,250 [man] The Black Panthers come onto the scene 925 00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:58,625 very shortly thereafter. 926 00:37:58,625 --> 00:38:01,083 [Bobby] The racist dog policemen must stop 927 00:38:01,083 --> 00:38:02,541 their wanton murder and brutality of black people 928 00:38:02,541 --> 00:38:07,083 or face the wrath of armed black people in the black community. 929 00:38:07,083 --> 00:38:10,250 The US and the Panthers had different ideologies. 930 00:38:10,250 --> 00:38:13,083 The US Organization were more cultural nationalists. 931 00:38:13,083 --> 00:38:14,416 They wore dashikis, grew their hair out, 932 00:38:14,416 --> 00:38:16,041 and the Panthers were revolutionaries. 933 00:38:16,041 --> 00:38:18,000 They wore leather jackets. 934 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,958 They talked about being armed 935 00:38:19,958 --> 00:38:22,250 and using weapons in self-defense. 936 00:38:22,250 --> 00:38:25,750 But they were all motivated by monitoring the LAPD. 937 00:38:25,750 --> 00:38:28,875 Let's monitor what they do, taking down names of cops, 938 00:38:28,875 --> 00:38:30,125 documenting police abuses. 939 00:38:30,125 --> 00:38:32,250 A lot of the gang members became Panthers. 940 00:38:32,250 --> 00:38:34,916 They were repurposed community activists. 941 00:38:34,916 --> 00:38:36,583 They had something different to do. 942 00:38:36,583 --> 00:38:38,583 They had something that was positive to do. 943 00:38:38,583 --> 00:38:42,125 [Alex] And it was a really good time, because crime was down. 944 00:38:42,125 --> 00:38:44,625 Gang violence was at its lowest, 945 00:38:44,625 --> 00:38:46,791 and consciousness was at its highest for African-Americans. 946 00:38:46,791 --> 00:38:49,833 It wasn't sanctioned 947 00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:51,583 by the system, 948 00:38:51,583 --> 00:38:53,875 by white folk, by law enforcement, 949 00:38:53,875 --> 00:38:56,916 so it was a constant, you know, ebb and flow, if you will, 950 00:38:56,916 --> 00:38:59,583 on attempt to break it up, 951 00:38:59,583 --> 00:39:02,833 to create havoc so that it wouldn't continue. 952 00:39:02,833 --> 00:39:05,166 [Alex] When the FBI was under J. Edgar Hoover, 953 00:39:05,166 --> 00:39:07,583 their goal was to create as much conflict 954 00:39:07,583 --> 00:39:09,541 between the Panthers and the US, because they were 955 00:39:09,541 --> 00:39:12,500 the two most prominent political groups in Los Angeles. 956 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:15,208 A new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee 957 00:39:15,208 --> 00:39:17,750 detailing more FBI abuses. 958 00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:20,125 The staff report tells how the FBI used anonymous notes 959 00:39:20,125 --> 00:39:23,791 to provoke bloody gang wars 960 00:39:23,791 --> 00:39:26,958 between the Black Panthers and rival groups. 961 00:39:26,958 --> 00:39:28,666 [Jeff] One of the main organizers 962 00:39:28,666 --> 00:39:31,458 was a young man named Bunchy Carter, 963 00:39:31,458 --> 00:39:33,416 who was a leader of the Slausons gang, 964 00:39:33,416 --> 00:39:38,333 and he undergoes sort of a political awakening 965 00:39:38,333 --> 00:39:41,833 and signs up and becomes a Black Panther. 966 00:39:41,833 --> 00:39:44,041 In a school building at UCLA, 967 00:39:44,041 --> 00:39:46,458 there's a shootout between the US Organization 968 00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:48,375 and the Black Panther Party, 969 00:39:48,375 --> 00:39:50,958 and Bunchy Carter is one of the folks who is killed. 970 00:39:50,958 --> 00:39:54,375 At approximately 2:45 p.m. this afternoon, 971 00:39:54,375 --> 00:39:58,708 two men were murdered at the UCLA campus. 972 00:39:58,708 --> 00:40:01,375 Their names are John Huggins, 973 00:40:01,375 --> 00:40:03,250 23 years old, 974 00:40:03,250 --> 00:40:08,375 and Alprentice Carter, 26 years old. 975 00:40:08,375 --> 00:40:10,708 It's just one of the tragic moments in LA history, 976 00:40:10,708 --> 00:40:13,291 because Bunchy brought 977 00:40:13,291 --> 00:40:15,333 that leadership to the youth. 978 00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:19,166 [news anchor] Between two and three hundred 979 00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:21,583 Los Angeles Police Department officers 980 00:40:21,583 --> 00:40:22,916 massed near the Black Panther Party headquarters 981 00:40:22,916 --> 00:40:24,458 in Los Angeles. 982 00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:27,208 [news anchor] The United States government 983 00:40:27,208 --> 00:40:30,125 and the state authorities and state agencies 984 00:40:30,125 --> 00:40:32,916 are out to systematically commit genocide 985 00:40:32,916 --> 00:40:34,666 on the Black Panther Party. 986 00:40:34,666 --> 00:40:38,583 There was just an emptiness in Los Angeles in 1969. 987 00:40:38,583 --> 00:40:40,083 Everything just stopped, 988 00:40:40,083 --> 00:40:43,500 and it allowed a new generation of teenagers 989 00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:46,583 to try to do their own thing. 990 00:40:46,583 --> 00:40:49,666 [man] Crip: "continuous revolution in progress." 991 00:40:49,666 --> 00:40:52,583 [Alex] When Raymond Washington started the Crips, 992 00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:53,875 they wore leather coats. 993 00:40:53,875 --> 00:40:54,791 Leather coats became a big deal, 994 00:40:54,791 --> 00:40:56,000 because that's what the Panthers wore, 995 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,416 so stylistically, 996 00:40:58,416 --> 00:41:00,875 they wanted to be like the Panthers. 997 00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,291 Politically, they didn't have the know-how. 998 00:41:03,291 --> 00:41:05,416 Raymond Washington was just a 15-year-old kid. 999 00:41:05,416 --> 00:41:07,291 Never been to jail, doesn't know anything about prison 1000 00:41:07,291 --> 00:41:08,875 at that point in time. 1001 00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:10,166 He's just a kid that knows how to fight. 1002 00:41:10,166 --> 00:41:12,791 What Raymond Washington and the other Crips wanted to do 1003 00:41:12,791 --> 00:41:15,541 was go to the neighborhoods and try to, "Hey, join us." 1004 00:41:15,541 --> 00:41:18,083 But they said, "Oh, no, no, no. We're--we're fine." 1005 00:41:18,083 --> 00:41:19,541 All these gangs that have been victimized by the Crips, 1006 00:41:19,541 --> 00:41:21,166 they come together and say, "Hey, these Crips 1007 00:41:21,166 --> 00:41:23,125 are just running all over us. 1008 00:41:23,125 --> 00:41:24,750 We got to defend ourselves." 1009 00:41:24,750 --> 00:41:26,291 That's when an alliance of all these gangs 1010 00:41:26,291 --> 00:41:28,583 started to fight against the Crips. 1011 00:41:28,583 --> 00:41:31,875 [news anchor] To its members, the gang 1012 00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:34,416 or club or clique or neighborhood 1013 00:41:34,416 --> 00:41:35,125 is an identity, 1014 00:41:35,125 --> 00:41:38,166 a defense against the world. 1015 00:41:38,166 --> 00:41:40,125 But while belonging to a gang 1016 00:41:40,125 --> 00:41:43,333 is a harmless inclination of many youngsters, 1017 00:41:43,333 --> 00:41:47,375 in the ghetto, the gang is far removed from fun. 1018 00:41:47,375 --> 00:41:48,750 Police? They can die. 1019 00:41:48,750 --> 00:41:50,708 They all can die. I hate 'em. 1020 00:41:50,708 --> 00:41:52,333 [news anchor] The gang's feelings toward the police 1021 00:41:52,333 --> 00:41:54,208 and toward the world in general 1022 00:41:54,208 --> 00:41:56,708 are emphatically expressed 1023 00:41:56,708 --> 00:41:58,500 in wall paintings and graffiti. 1024 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:00,708 In many respects, gang graffiti 1025 00:42:00,708 --> 00:42:04,166 is the newspaper of the streets. 1026 00:42:04,166 --> 00:42:05,833 All right, Daryl, you're here, 1027 00:42:05,833 --> 00:42:06,791 and if you'll look handsome... 1028 00:42:06,791 --> 00:42:09,916 - [laughter] - ...we will take the vote. 1029 00:42:09,916 --> 00:42:11,583 All right, there has been a motion 1030 00:42:11,583 --> 00:42:13,208 to appoint Daryl Gates to chief of police 1031 00:42:13,208 --> 00:42:16,083 of the city of Los Angeles. 1032 00:42:16,083 --> 00:42:18,583 - All those in favor, say "Aye." - all: Aye. 1033 00:42:18,583 --> 00:42:21,166 The motion is carried unanimously. 1034 00:42:21,166 --> 00:42:23,083 The meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners 1035 00:42:23,083 --> 00:42:24,750 is now adjourned. 1036 00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:26,708 [applause] 1037 00:42:26,708 --> 00:42:29,916 [Daryl] This is truly a great organization. 1038 00:42:29,916 --> 00:42:32,875 I perceive that this organization can do anything, 1039 00:42:32,875 --> 00:42:35,500 absolutely anything, 1040 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:37,375 if it has the proper leadership. 1041 00:42:37,375 --> 00:42:40,666 [Alex] Daryl Gates was a protégé of William Parker, 1042 00:42:40,666 --> 00:42:42,833 so basically we have William Parker 1043 00:42:42,833 --> 00:42:44,583 from 1950 to 1966. 1044 00:42:44,583 --> 00:42:48,000 He dies of a heart attack a year after the riots, 1045 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,625 and then Daryl Gates becomes the chief in 1976 to 1992, 1046 00:42:52,625 --> 00:42:54,375 so basically we have William Parker 1047 00:42:54,375 --> 00:42:59,041 as the police chief from 1950 to 1992. 1048 00:42:59,041 --> 00:43:01,875 [Charlie] Chief Gates was a driver for Chief Parker, 1049 00:43:01,875 --> 00:43:04,208 and that was part of his training 1050 00:43:04,208 --> 00:43:05,708 to be chief of police. 1051 00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:07,333 [Sacha] The mafia has a similar system 1052 00:43:07,333 --> 00:43:09,583 in that there is driver for the don. 1053 00:43:09,583 --> 00:43:11,250 Maybe the mafia got that from the police. 1054 00:43:11,250 --> 00:43:13,000 Well, maybe they both got it from the military, 1055 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,333 because that is common in the military too. 1056 00:43:15,333 --> 00:43:17,458 ♪ We're from Watts ♪ 1057 00:43:17,458 --> 00:43:20,750 ♪ We're from Watts, mighty, mighty Watts ♪ 1058 00:43:20,750 --> 00:43:22,666 [Karen] In the '70s, as I became more active, 1059 00:43:22,666 --> 00:43:26,541 the level of repression from the LAPD 1060 00:43:26,541 --> 00:43:28,708 was very, very severe, 1061 00:43:28,708 --> 00:43:30,833 so activists would get together, 1062 00:43:30,833 --> 00:43:34,041 and we would have meetings, and the LAPD 1063 00:43:34,041 --> 00:43:37,750 would harass us, would infiltrate our meetings. 1064 00:43:37,750 --> 00:43:40,916 Our tires would be slashed. Cars would be vandalized. 1065 00:43:40,916 --> 00:43:44,583 Daryl Gates--he had files on members of the city council, 1066 00:43:44,583 --> 00:43:47,416 and during those years, the police chief 1067 00:43:47,416 --> 00:43:50,208 actually was the most powerful person in the city 1068 00:43:50,208 --> 00:43:51,333 Because of the way the city charter was written, 1069 00:43:51,333 --> 00:43:53,833 he couldn't be fired. 1070 00:43:53,833 --> 00:43:54,791 [news anchor] Gates bristled when one reporter 1071 00:43:54,791 --> 00:43:57,166 asked him to comment on the increase 1072 00:43:57,166 --> 00:43:58,750 in officer-involved shootings. 1073 00:43:58,750 --> 00:44:01,250 Do you know that there is an increase? 1074 00:44:01,250 --> 00:44:03,125 That is precisely what I'm talking about. 1075 00:44:03,125 --> 00:44:06,583 There is a decrease in officer-involved shootings, 1076 00:44:06,583 --> 00:44:09,000 but it's people like you that perpetuate the myth 1077 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:09,750 that there's an increase. 1078 00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:13,125 ♪ S.W.A.T. theme playing ♪ 1079 00:44:13,125 --> 00:44:16,083 ♪♪ 1080 00:44:16,083 --> 00:44:20,291 The entire SWAT idea came out of Daryl Gates 1081 00:44:20,291 --> 00:44:22,375 and LAPD's work 1082 00:44:22,375 --> 00:44:27,125 in trying to contain black activists in the 1960s. 1083 00:44:27,125 --> 00:44:30,583 I knew Daryl Gates very well. I worked directly for him. 1084 00:44:30,583 --> 00:44:31,333 Some of the things that he was criticized for-- 1085 00:44:31,333 --> 00:44:33,000 I think he was misunderstood. 1086 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,166 ♪♪ 1087 00:44:38,166 --> 00:44:40,708 One time, he said that he was concerned 1088 00:44:40,708 --> 00:44:43,541 that blacks didn't respond to the chokehold 1089 00:44:43,541 --> 00:44:45,083 as normal people. 1090 00:44:45,083 --> 00:44:45,625 [news anchor] He said, quote: 1091 00:44:54,708 --> 00:44:57,500 He was immediately made out to be a racist. 1092 00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:00,208 It may be that on some, 1093 00:45:00,208 --> 00:45:02,416 the arteries do not open up 1094 00:45:02,416 --> 00:45:04,958 in--in a normal fashion. 1095 00:45:04,958 --> 00:45:07,458 Maybe "a normal fashion" instead of "normal people" 1096 00:45:07,458 --> 00:45:08,833 would have been better terminology. 1097 00:45:08,833 --> 00:45:12,625 The blacks who died after the application of a control hold, 1098 00:45:12,625 --> 00:45:13,708 the vast majority of 'em had 1099 00:45:13,708 --> 00:45:17,041 the onset of a sickle cell anemia crisis. 1100 00:45:17,041 --> 00:45:19,500 So he was onto something, 1101 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:21,500 but when he said it, it came out wrong. 1102 00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:23,208 I'm convinced it was his sense of compassion 1103 00:45:23,208 --> 00:45:26,000 that was driving him to try to find out what was going on. 1104 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,583 What you talkin' bout, Willis? 1105 00:45:27,583 --> 00:45:30,958 When I was, like, between 12, 13, 1106 00:45:30,958 --> 00:45:34,500 this police officer, like, 1107 00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:38,083 he would try and antagonize me to fight. 1108 00:45:38,083 --> 00:45:41,041 This is a grown-ass man with a gun, 1109 00:45:41,041 --> 00:45:44,000 and he's groping my ass 1110 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,833 and grabbing my nuts, 1111 00:45:45,833 --> 00:45:47,833 and, like, trying to get me to do something 1112 00:45:47,833 --> 00:45:51,250 with all my homeys right there, you know what I mean? 1113 00:45:51,250 --> 00:45:52,166 It was like, "What the fuck?" 1114 00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:55,000 Dehumanizing. 1115 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,625 You know? 1116 00:45:56,625 --> 00:46:00,041 ♪ jazz music ♪ 1117 00:46:00,041 --> 00:46:01,791 [Yo Yo] Growing up in South-Central, 1118 00:46:01,791 --> 00:46:05,208 we didn't really interact with any other races. 1119 00:46:05,208 --> 00:46:06,708 We were segregated. 1120 00:46:06,708 --> 00:46:10,375 You go too far north of Wilshire or Pico, 1121 00:46:10,375 --> 00:46:11,541 cops were pulling you over, so it wasn't too much 1122 00:46:11,541 --> 00:46:14,541 of going outside of your neighborhood. 1123 00:46:14,541 --> 00:46:18,875 It kind of had you... 1124 00:46:18,875 --> 00:46:20,166 boxed in. 1125 00:46:20,166 --> 00:46:22,041 In Los Angeles, a court now appears 1126 00:46:22,041 --> 00:46:23,333 to have settled the issue 1127 00:46:23,333 --> 00:46:25,916 of which students will be educated where. 1128 00:46:25,916 --> 00:46:29,166 [Norwood] We went to school in the San Fernando Valley. 1129 00:46:29,166 --> 00:46:30,541 We got bussed. 1130 00:46:30,541 --> 00:46:32,416 I'm a P-funk fan. 1131 00:46:32,416 --> 00:46:35,083 Punk rock started happening on the radio. 1132 00:46:35,083 --> 00:46:37,541 It was a lot of shit. It was fertile. 1133 00:46:37,541 --> 00:46:41,208 We went to school with white kids that were, like, 1134 00:46:41,208 --> 00:46:44,041 actually getting into this stuff, you know? 1135 00:46:44,041 --> 00:46:47,333 So there was a little cultural exchange. 1136 00:46:47,333 --> 00:46:48,625 I didn't get bussed. 1137 00:46:48,625 --> 00:46:49,833 Kids from LA got bussed 1138 00:46:49,833 --> 00:46:52,250 out to my high school, Taft. 1139 00:46:52,250 --> 00:46:53,750 Ice Cube went to my high school. 1140 00:46:53,750 --> 00:46:55,750 A bunch of cats went to the high school, 1141 00:46:55,750 --> 00:46:57,625 but music was around that school too. 1142 00:46:57,625 --> 00:46:59,916 It was crazy, and I'd wind up down on, like, 1143 00:46:59,916 --> 00:47:02,250 Jefferson and La Brea with a bunch of kids, spray-painting. 1144 00:47:02,250 --> 00:47:03,125 At the time, I think, you know, 1145 00:47:03,125 --> 00:47:05,333 the suburban white kids, they ate it up. 1146 00:47:05,333 --> 00:47:06,500 They were getting exposed to all kinds of shit. 1147 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:09,583 For me, it changed my life. 1148 00:47:09,583 --> 00:47:14,083 ♪♪ 1149 00:47:14,083 --> 00:47:15,750 [news anchor] Today, in a pool room in the heart of Watts, 1150 00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:18,666 the rage is subdued, but it's there: 1151 00:47:18,666 --> 00:47:22,458 a new generation of frustrated young men. 1152 00:47:22,458 --> 00:47:24,125 Most have little education. 1153 00:47:24,125 --> 00:47:24,750 Some have jail records, 1154 00:47:24,750 --> 00:47:26,958 and that means no job. 1155 00:47:26,958 --> 00:47:28,125 I don't want to rob nobody, don't want to steal, 1156 00:47:28,125 --> 00:47:31,041 'cause I don't want to go to jail no more, you know. 1157 00:47:31,041 --> 00:47:33,125 - [man] So what will you do? - I don't know. 1158 00:47:33,125 --> 00:47:35,375 [news anchor] Estimates of the unemployment rate in Watts 1159 00:47:35,375 --> 00:47:37,375 run as high as 40 percent, 1160 00:47:37,375 --> 00:47:39,833 and there aren't enough jobs to go around. 1161 00:47:39,833 --> 00:47:42,625 [Cle] I had uncles that worked at General Motors. 1162 00:47:42,625 --> 00:47:43,583 One worked at Kaiser Steel. 1163 00:47:43,583 --> 00:47:45,875 You had Goodyear Rubber. 1164 00:47:45,875 --> 00:47:47,791 Industrial America was right here, 1165 00:47:47,791 --> 00:47:49,041 up and down Alameda. 1166 00:47:49,041 --> 00:47:52,208 Some good, blue-collar, middle-class jobs. 1167 00:47:52,208 --> 00:47:54,250 So as kids growing up, we always knew it was a given 1168 00:47:54,250 --> 00:47:57,666 that we were probably gonna be in those fuckin' factories too. 1169 00:47:57,666 --> 00:48:00,250 Well, guess what? Those jobs got outsourced. 1170 00:48:00,250 --> 00:48:02,000 All those factories started closing, 1171 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,333 so when I was coming up, there was no jobs, period. 1172 00:48:05,333 --> 00:48:08,750 Like, you really didn't know what you were gonna do. 1173 00:48:08,750 --> 00:48:12,166 ♪ exciting music ♪ 1174 00:48:12,166 --> 00:48:15,750 [Mike] One global industry actually rides to the rescue. 1175 00:48:17,125 --> 00:48:18,750 Actually expressed an interest 1176 00:48:18,750 --> 00:48:21,875 in the declining parts of South-Central LA, 1177 00:48:21,875 --> 00:48:23,833 and they came from Latin America. 1178 00:48:23,833 --> 00:48:26,083 The Columbians started coming into town, 1179 00:48:26,083 --> 00:48:26,916 and they started recruiting 1180 00:48:26,916 --> 00:48:28,875 black gang members to sell drugs. 1181 00:48:28,875 --> 00:48:31,625 And then there was the way of distributing cocaine 1182 00:48:31,625 --> 00:48:34,041 that was different than before, 1183 00:48:34,041 --> 00:48:36,333 which was changing from powder to crack, 1184 00:48:36,333 --> 00:48:39,000 which led to widespread distribution. 1185 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,583 [Perry] We were all buying up crack as fast as we could, 1186 00:48:42,583 --> 00:48:44,625 as fast as we could get our money, you know, 1187 00:48:44,625 --> 00:48:45,625 got money in our hand, you know? 1188 00:48:45,625 --> 00:48:48,333 Mind already out the door, baby. 1189 00:48:48,333 --> 00:48:50,166 [news anchor] The drug so powerful 1190 00:48:50,166 --> 00:48:52,166 it will empty the money from your pockets, 1191 00:48:52,166 --> 00:48:54,541 make you sell the watch off your wrist, 1192 00:48:54,541 --> 00:48:56,666 the clothes off your back. 1193 00:48:56,666 --> 00:48:59,458 Or kill your mother. 1194 00:48:59,458 --> 00:49:02,083 Yep, that's what we're seeing. 1195 00:49:02,083 --> 00:49:03,750 [Kam] The Watts I grew up in-- 1196 00:49:03,750 --> 00:49:06,041 it was rough, but we was aware. 1197 00:49:06,041 --> 00:49:07,333 Gangbanging and all that, it really wasn't about killing. 1198 00:49:07,333 --> 00:49:09,083 Somebody might get stabbed, you know what I'm saying? 1199 00:49:09,083 --> 00:49:11,541 Somebody might get rat-packed and stomped out or whatever, 1200 00:49:11,541 --> 00:49:14,708 but it wasn't--it wasn't this. 1201 00:49:14,708 --> 00:49:17,125 We all just living the life 1202 00:49:17,125 --> 00:49:18,791 that's, like, chosen in a way, 1203 00:49:18,791 --> 00:49:20,416 but it's, like, forced on us also, 1204 00:49:20,416 --> 00:49:21,708 you understand me? 1205 00:49:21,708 --> 00:49:23,958 The drugs, the money, and the guns, 1206 00:49:23,958 --> 00:49:27,750 all of that got put here by Reagan and Bush. 1207 00:49:27,750 --> 00:49:28,750 [news anchor] CIA Director John Deutch 1208 00:49:28,750 --> 00:49:31,708 defending America's spy agency 1209 00:49:31,708 --> 00:49:33,166 against reports it sold crack-cocaine 1210 00:49:33,166 --> 00:49:36,208 in LA's black neighborhoods to fund the contras. 1211 00:49:36,208 --> 00:49:40,083 I am a former Los Angeles police narcotics detective, 1212 00:49:40,083 --> 00:49:41,250 and I worked South-Central Los Angeles, 1213 00:49:41,250 --> 00:49:43,166 and I will tell you, Director Deutch, emphatically 1214 00:49:43,166 --> 00:49:46,291 that the agency has dealt drugs throughout this country 1215 00:49:46,291 --> 00:49:48,208 for a long time. 1216 00:49:48,208 --> 00:49:50,166 [cheers and applause] 1217 00:49:50,166 --> 00:49:53,875 Every so often, it'll be a stalled train car. 1218 00:49:55,875 --> 00:49:57,083 It just so happened, that train car full of guns. 1219 00:49:57,083 --> 00:50:00,000 Well, it's a CIA informant or a snitch or something, 1220 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,083 but somebody-- the word would get out, 1221 00:50:01,083 --> 00:50:02,791 like, you know, yeah, there's a car over there, 1222 00:50:02,791 --> 00:50:05,583 and it's full of weapons, new weapons. 1223 00:50:05,583 --> 00:50:07,958 That's how a lot of guns got dispersed through the hood. 1224 00:50:07,958 --> 00:50:10,166 That's how--how cold of gangsters they are. 1225 00:50:10,166 --> 00:50:12,166 You know what I'm saying? Them is the real gangsters. 1226 00:50:12,166 --> 00:50:14,166 Yep. 1227 00:50:14,166 --> 00:50:16,875 ♪ 'Cause I'm down by Laughton, I Crip my way around ♪ 1228 00:50:16,875 --> 00:50:19,875 ♪ Too much, too many Crips is too much ♪ 1229 00:50:19,875 --> 00:50:24,500 [Daryl] We, the Los Angeles Police Department, cannot exist 1230 00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:25,583 with the gangs. 1231 00:50:25,583 --> 00:50:26,625 They cannot exist with us, 1232 00:50:26,625 --> 00:50:29,416 and so it's just that clear. 1233 00:50:29,416 --> 00:50:31,041 You've got a red knife, homey. 1234 00:50:31,041 --> 00:50:33,333 I'm putting you on notice that you a gang member. 1235 00:50:33,333 --> 00:50:35,625 [Kam] You looked up to policemen like superheroes, 1236 00:50:35,625 --> 00:50:37,291 because that's how it was painted to us, 1237 00:50:37,291 --> 00:50:39,208 but getting done dirty by them... 1238 00:50:39,208 --> 00:50:41,250 [laughs] 1239 00:50:41,250 --> 00:50:43,958 You know, it was a reality check. 1240 00:50:43,958 --> 00:50:46,875 Tired of you people hanging around, playing bones. 1241 00:50:46,875 --> 00:50:48,666 You see what I just threw? 1242 00:50:48,666 --> 00:50:50,291 Think those dice are loaded? 1243 00:50:50,291 --> 00:50:53,291 [man] They ain't loaded; they did it themself. 1244 00:50:53,291 --> 00:50:54,208 Let me try this one more time. 1245 00:50:54,208 --> 00:50:55,500 [laughs] He said, "Let me try that"-- 1246 00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:58,250 Let me try this shit. 1247 00:50:58,250 --> 00:50:59,583 [Kam] They don't want to tell you who you bang with. 1248 00:50:59,583 --> 00:51:01,208 "I don't bang with nobody." 1249 00:51:01,208 --> 00:51:03,041 "Where you live?" "I live over there on"-- 1250 00:51:03,041 --> 00:51:04,625 "Well, then, yeah, you were at such-and-such crib." 1251 00:51:04,625 --> 00:51:05,375 First it made me question myself, 1252 00:51:05,375 --> 00:51:07,375 like, did I do something wrong? 1253 00:51:07,375 --> 00:51:09,166 Like, you really, you know, 1254 00:51:09,166 --> 00:51:10,750 am I criminal? 1255 00:51:10,750 --> 00:51:11,666 Am I what this person said I was? 1256 00:51:11,666 --> 00:51:12,833 [Cle] It was, like, three of us. 1257 00:51:12,833 --> 00:51:15,208 We had on baseball uniforms. 1258 00:51:15,208 --> 00:51:16,833 I remember we were nine, ten years old. 1259 00:51:16,833 --> 00:51:18,666 So we're working through the alley 1260 00:51:18,666 --> 00:51:19,666 and these cops pull up on us. 1261 00:51:19,666 --> 00:51:21,208 Like, "Who won today? 1262 00:51:21,208 --> 00:51:22,500 We were like, "We about to go play. 1263 00:51:22,500 --> 00:51:23,166 We haven't played yet." 1264 00:51:23,166 --> 00:51:23,833 And they say, "Hold up." 1265 00:51:23,833 --> 00:51:25,791 Smacks my partner, right? 1266 00:51:25,791 --> 00:51:27,583 Smacks another one, right? 1267 00:51:27,583 --> 00:51:30,875 And then he punches me. 1268 00:51:30,875 --> 00:51:31,958 And he said, "Gentlemen, that's for the future." 1269 00:51:31,958 --> 00:51:34,458 And he got in his car and just left. 1270 00:51:34,458 --> 00:51:38,208 Here we are reaching the end of 1985 1271 00:51:38,208 --> 00:51:40,791 and about to start 1986. 1272 00:51:40,791 --> 00:51:44,750 I thought it was time to talk to you a little bit about 1273 00:51:44,750 --> 00:51:46,666 what we've done in 1985 1274 00:51:46,666 --> 00:51:48,791 and cover just some of the highlights. 1275 00:51:48,791 --> 00:51:50,083 [glass shatters] 1276 00:51:50,083 --> 00:51:52,291 ♪ hip-hop music ♪ 1277 00:51:52,291 --> 00:51:54,958 We put together a motorized battering ram 1278 00:51:54,958 --> 00:51:55,708 to get through barred doors, 1279 00:51:55,708 --> 00:51:57,750 and it's been magnificent. 1280 00:51:57,750 --> 00:52:00,750 [Dee] I had never seen tanks 1281 00:52:00,750 --> 00:52:03,291 roll down the street 1282 00:52:03,291 --> 00:52:04,375 to break into a house. 1283 00:52:04,375 --> 00:52:06,083 Because there was such a drug epidemic going on, 1284 00:52:06,083 --> 00:52:08,916 they had these things called the batter ram, 1285 00:52:08,916 --> 00:52:11,250 which was a tank, a military tank. 1286 00:52:11,250 --> 00:52:14,375 So this was part of the police procedure. 1287 00:52:14,375 --> 00:52:19,375 ♪♪ 1288 00:52:23,208 --> 00:52:25,083 ♪♪ 1289 00:52:25,083 --> 00:52:27,333 [Connie] LAPD tore down people's doors 1290 00:52:27,333 --> 00:52:28,083 with all the wrong addresses. 1291 00:52:28,083 --> 00:52:30,583 Didn't matter; they were black. 1292 00:52:30,583 --> 00:52:32,916 [Daryl] The K9 unit has been with us for a long time. 1293 00:52:32,916 --> 00:52:33,750 I need not tell any of you how valuable they are. 1294 00:52:33,750 --> 00:52:36,916 They do such a sensational job. 1295 00:52:36,916 --> 00:52:39,541 I haven't heard of any dog brutality yet. 1296 00:52:39,541 --> 00:52:40,583 [Connie] They would release those K9 dogs 1297 00:52:40,583 --> 00:52:42,958 to hunt black kids. 1298 00:52:42,958 --> 00:52:46,666 They even had a joke on the police radio. 1299 00:52:46,666 --> 00:52:49,333 When they were getting ready to sic the dogs 1300 00:52:49,333 --> 00:52:50,958 on a captive black teenager, 1301 00:52:50,958 --> 00:52:52,333 they'd call it "feeding time." 1302 00:52:52,333 --> 00:52:54,291 [Sacha] And they referred to black kids as biscuits? 1303 00:52:54,291 --> 00:52:56,208 Yes, biscuits. 1304 00:52:56,208 --> 00:52:58,250 [James] Being a police officer is something that I did. 1305 00:52:58,250 --> 00:52:59,791 It was a service that I did. 1306 00:52:59,791 --> 00:53:00,958 It wasn't who I was. 1307 00:53:00,958 --> 00:53:03,583 I could take that uniform off, 1308 00:53:03,583 --> 00:53:06,458 but the color of my skin, who I am, 1309 00:53:06,458 --> 00:53:07,333 I could not take off. 1310 00:53:07,333 --> 00:53:10,458 Staying in the patrol car every day 1311 00:53:10,458 --> 00:53:12,041 when you're going out and you're getting these calls-- 1312 00:53:12,041 --> 00:53:13,333 and believe me, it's dangerous-- 1313 00:53:13,333 --> 00:53:16,125 patrol officers don't know who's going to hurt them 1314 00:53:16,125 --> 00:53:18,916 or what the call is going to be next. 1315 00:53:18,916 --> 00:53:20,833 And there's some people out there that were racist 1316 00:53:20,833 --> 00:53:22,375 before they came into police work. 1317 00:53:22,375 --> 00:53:23,791 I am telling you right now. 1318 00:53:23,791 --> 00:53:24,833 You don't have no business touching me. 1319 00:53:24,833 --> 00:53:26,375 Hook him up. Hook him up. 1320 00:53:26,375 --> 00:53:27,625 [James] And so everything out here 1321 00:53:27,625 --> 00:53:29,208 is an aggressive attack mode, 1322 00:53:29,208 --> 00:53:30,958 and there's some that they've become cynical 1323 00:53:30,958 --> 00:53:31,833 because of the type of work that they have to do. 1324 00:53:31,833 --> 00:53:33,458 And they're scared. 1325 00:53:33,458 --> 00:53:35,333 But they do know that there's a racist system 1326 00:53:35,333 --> 00:53:37,166 that will back them up 1327 00:53:37,166 --> 00:53:38,791 and that they have a better chance of being acquitted 1328 00:53:38,791 --> 00:53:41,750 when they do overstep their boundaries. 1329 00:53:41,750 --> 00:53:43,041 A cop cannot walk up to a man on the street 1330 00:53:43,041 --> 00:53:46,166 and feel that he is so powerful 1331 00:53:46,166 --> 00:53:47,333 that you would not retaliate, 1332 00:53:47,333 --> 00:53:49,166 especially if he's wrong. 1333 00:53:49,166 --> 00:53:51,500 No, [bleep] them. Who the [bleep] are the police? 1334 00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:55,000 They're nobody but public servants. 1335 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,625 [Jeff] In 1986, Ice-T is beginning to rap about 1336 00:53:57,625 --> 00:53:59,416 running from police on "6 'N The Mornin'." 1337 00:53:59,416 --> 00:54:01,833 ♪ 6 in the morning, police at my door ♪ 1338 00:54:01,833 --> 00:54:04,416 ♪ Fresh Adidas squeak across the bathroom floor ♪ 1339 00:54:04,416 --> 00:54:06,958 So the music has this sharp turn, 1340 00:54:06,958 --> 00:54:10,166 and it's looking at the ways that police 1341 00:54:10,166 --> 00:54:13,333 are trying to contain black bodies 1342 00:54:13,333 --> 00:54:17,000 and offering a sense of resistance and rebellion. 1343 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,708 ♪♪ 1344 00:54:18,708 --> 00:54:20,916 [B-Real] We were definitely talking about 1345 00:54:20,916 --> 00:54:22,375 the corruption and the brutality. 1346 00:54:22,375 --> 00:54:27,000 We never really feared what those songs would bring. 1347 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,375 We just thought we had to, you know, take a stance. 1348 00:54:30,375 --> 00:54:31,458 It was important to us, because, I mean, you know, 1349 00:54:31,458 --> 00:54:35,666 we were the ones getting harassed every other day. 1350 00:54:35,666 --> 00:54:39,750 By me having the mic, I get to kind of explain 1351 00:54:39,750 --> 00:54:43,166 and really talk about the things that cause problems. 1352 00:54:43,166 --> 00:54:45,666 See, I'm more of a complaining type of rapper, 1353 00:54:45,666 --> 00:54:49,125 like a nag, you know, because I like to talk about things 1354 00:54:49,125 --> 00:54:50,291 that need to be talked about, 1355 00:54:50,291 --> 00:54:51,416 things that I want changed 1356 00:54:51,416 --> 00:54:54,208 or things that--that people need to take from the back 1357 00:54:54,208 --> 00:54:57,208 of their mind and put it to the front of their mind. 1358 00:54:57,208 --> 00:54:59,250 ♪ Hittin' corners in a six-trey Chevrolet ♪ 1359 00:54:59,250 --> 00:55:01,416 ♪ Rag-top Impala, top dollar ♪ 1360 00:55:01,416 --> 00:55:04,250 ♪ Got my cousin Laid-Back ridin' shotgun ♪ 1361 00:55:04,250 --> 00:55:05,916 [Kam] You know, I was doing my thing in the street 1362 00:55:05,916 --> 00:55:07,625 with some of my homies from Watts. 1363 00:55:07,625 --> 00:55:08,583 You know, we was using our little street money. 1364 00:55:08,583 --> 00:55:10,583 [Sacha] What do you mean by street money? 1365 00:55:10,583 --> 00:55:11,958 [Kam] Uh, dope money. 1366 00:55:11,958 --> 00:55:14,333 Ronald Reagan money. [laughs] 1367 00:55:14,333 --> 00:55:16,416 So we was using our Ronald Reagan money, 1368 00:55:16,416 --> 00:55:17,541 you know what I'm saying, 1369 00:55:17,541 --> 00:55:18,583 to make an album, 1370 00:55:18,583 --> 00:55:21,125 and we just happened to be at the same studio 1371 00:55:21,125 --> 00:55:22,916 that Ice Cube was at. 1372 00:55:22,916 --> 00:55:24,916 The artist that he had was Yo Yo. 1373 00:55:24,916 --> 00:55:26,625 ♪ You can't play with my Yo Yo ♪ 1374 00:55:26,625 --> 00:55:28,500 ♪ The brand-new intelligent black lady ♪ 1375 00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:30,416 [Kam] Cube used to come scoop me up, 1376 00:55:30,416 --> 00:55:32,916 and I--I love the brother, you know what I'm saying? 1377 00:55:32,916 --> 00:55:34,958 We squashed our dif--'cause we had some differences, 1378 00:55:34,958 --> 00:55:37,291 but he used to come scoop me up and I'd be like, 1379 00:55:37,291 --> 00:55:39,041 "Man, I could kill this dude right now. 1380 00:55:39,041 --> 00:55:41,666 I wonder how long it would take before that hit the news, 1381 00:55:41,666 --> 00:55:43,833 if I were to hit him right now, why we in the car-- 1382 00:55:43,833 --> 00:55:46,458 like, people just playing his music all around the country 1383 00:55:46,458 --> 00:55:48,541 right now, but I can kill him right now." 1384 00:55:48,541 --> 00:55:49,666 [Sacha] How do you get to a place 1385 00:55:49,666 --> 00:55:52,208 where you're thinking about killing your own brother? 1386 00:55:52,208 --> 00:55:53,708 Four-hundred years of slavery 1387 00:55:53,708 --> 00:55:55,916 and teaching us to hate ourselves. 1388 00:55:55,916 --> 00:55:57,916 Hate yourself; somebody teach you to hate yourself. 1389 00:55:57,916 --> 00:56:01,291 Everything black is wicked and evil and worthless and all that, 1390 00:56:01,291 --> 00:56:04,625 and everything close to white is right and good and all that. 1391 00:56:04,625 --> 00:56:07,375 So I'm way down in the dirt; I'm in the East Side Bottoms. 1392 00:56:07,375 --> 00:56:10,333 I'm, you know, so--life don't mean shit to me. 1393 00:56:10,333 --> 00:56:13,458 But that's all we know. That's how we talk. 1394 00:56:13,458 --> 00:56:16,041 That's how we trained. 1395 00:56:16,041 --> 00:56:17,208 [Daryl] Howdy. 1396 00:56:17,208 --> 00:56:17,958 The title of this videotape 1397 00:56:17,958 --> 00:56:20,500 is very appropriate. 1398 00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:22,916 It's called "The Foothill Incident." 1399 00:56:22,916 --> 00:56:26,666 By now, like every man, woman, and child 1400 00:56:26,666 --> 00:56:28,583 in probably the United States, 1401 00:56:28,583 --> 00:56:33,333 you have witnessed this Foothill Incident, 1402 00:56:33,333 --> 00:56:37,833 the videotape, in your own living rooms, 1403 00:56:37,833 --> 00:56:39,333 over and over again. 1404 00:56:39,333 --> 00:56:41,291 [news anchor] Twenty-five-year-old 1405 00:56:41,291 --> 00:56:42,500 Rodney King had been pulled over by Los Angeles 1406 00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:46,333 police officers after a high-speed chase. 1407 00:56:46,333 --> 00:56:47,583 An apartment dweller across the street 1408 00:56:47,583 --> 00:56:51,833 took this home video after seeing no apparent reason 1409 00:56:51,833 --> 00:56:53,666 for the police to attack the suspect 1410 00:56:53,666 --> 00:56:56,208 with boots and night sticks. 1411 00:56:56,208 --> 00:56:58,000 [Daryl] There's not a man or woman 1412 00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,875 in this department who does not feel as outraged 1413 00:56:59,875 --> 00:57:02,583 as the public is. 1414 00:57:02,583 --> 00:57:04,916 As a matter of fact, I think we're probably angrier 1415 00:57:04,916 --> 00:57:08,000 than the public because it affects us more. 1416 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,416 We were like, "Holy shit." 1417 00:57:10,416 --> 00:57:12,333 You know, this video camera revolution. 1418 00:57:12,333 --> 00:57:14,083 Like, they got it. 1419 00:57:14,083 --> 00:57:15,500 "Finally," you know what I mean? 1420 00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:17,833 "Finally we got some evidence. 1421 00:57:17,833 --> 00:57:19,833 We're going to expose this. 1422 00:57:19,833 --> 00:57:22,041 This time we're gonna have justice." 1423 00:57:22,041 --> 00:57:23,083 And this is a terrible thing to say, 1424 00:57:23,083 --> 00:57:25,750 we all felt bad for his beating, 1425 00:57:25,750 --> 00:57:29,791 but we cheered the fact that it was finally documented. 1426 00:57:29,791 --> 00:57:31,041 When we see him getting beat down, 1427 00:57:31,041 --> 00:57:32,041 everybody's in an uproar, 1428 00:57:32,041 --> 00:57:34,583 we're ready to go again, 1429 00:57:34,583 --> 00:57:36,083 the Jim Browns and the Jesse Jacksons 1430 00:57:36,083 --> 00:57:38,583 and the Arsenio Halls 1431 00:57:38,583 --> 00:57:41,916 and all these people really, really said, "Hold on, 1432 00:57:41,916 --> 00:57:42,500 young people. 1433 00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:43,916 We got 'em this time. 1434 00:57:43,916 --> 00:57:45,541 Don't do anything. 1435 00:57:45,541 --> 00:57:47,250 This time their ass is in trouble." 1436 00:57:47,250 --> 00:57:49,916 The four Los Angeles policemen charged 1437 00:57:49,916 --> 00:57:52,083 in the videotaped beating of a black motorist 1438 00:57:52,083 --> 00:57:53,833 will not be tried in Los Angeles County. 1439 00:57:53,833 --> 00:57:58,000 [Connie] They moved the trial from LA up to Simi Valley, 1440 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,625 and Simi Valley is where all cops retire. 1441 00:58:00,625 --> 00:58:03,833 And I knew that once she moved the trial up there, 1442 00:58:03,833 --> 00:58:06,125 the empathy was not going to be with Rodney King; 1443 00:58:06,125 --> 00:58:07,666 it was going to be with the officers, 1444 00:58:07,666 --> 00:58:08,958 because that's the way it works. 1445 00:58:08,958 --> 00:58:11,625 [news anchor] Powell also revealed anger and bitterness 1446 00:58:11,625 --> 00:58:13,083 but no remorse. 1447 00:58:13,083 --> 00:58:14,625 He showed off one of the dozens 1448 00:58:14,625 --> 00:58:17,250 of cards he says he's received from well-wishers. 1449 00:58:17,250 --> 00:58:18,875 I just want to get acquitted 1450 00:58:18,875 --> 00:58:19,916 and get this over with and behind me. 1451 00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:21,583 As a white person, you were taught as a child 1452 00:58:21,583 --> 00:58:25,916 in all your life a cop deserves the benefit of doubt. 1453 00:58:25,916 --> 00:58:27,291 So somewhere in the back of my mind, 1454 00:58:27,291 --> 00:58:29,375 even though I'm looking at that on TV 1455 00:58:29,375 --> 00:58:31,625 and I'm seeing it, and I'm going, "That fuck-- 1456 00:58:31,625 --> 00:58:33,791 they're beating that--fucking that dude to death." 1457 00:58:33,791 --> 00:58:36,375 There's still this fucking thing that you've been told 1458 00:58:36,375 --> 00:58:37,250 your entire life back there that's, like, 1459 00:58:37,250 --> 00:58:40,083 part of your base program. 1460 00:58:40,083 --> 00:58:42,083 "There's got to be a reason. 1461 00:58:42,083 --> 00:58:44,708 There's got to be. He must have done something. 1462 00:58:44,708 --> 00:58:47,500 He must be doing something to make 'em keep doing that." 1463 00:58:47,500 --> 00:58:50,291 It's on television, all over the world. 1464 00:58:50,291 --> 00:58:52,291 You could see he tried to beat the man to death, 1465 00:58:52,291 --> 00:58:56,291 so how can you say what we saw, what we watching, 1466 00:58:56,291 --> 00:58:57,333 is not true? 1467 00:58:57,333 --> 00:58:58,541 And then something else happened, 1468 00:58:58,541 --> 00:59:03,291 which enflamed a different set of grievances. 1469 00:59:03,291 --> 00:59:05,083 [news anchor] Fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins 1470 00:59:05,083 --> 00:59:08,916 was shot and killed by store owner Soon Ja Du. 1471 00:59:08,916 --> 00:59:12,625 Du claimed Harlins was stealing a bottle of orange juice 1472 00:59:12,625 --> 00:59:15,000 when she confronted the teenager. 1473 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,666 Latasha was a beautiful person. 1474 00:59:17,666 --> 00:59:20,166 She was more like a mother figure. 1475 00:59:20,166 --> 00:59:21,166 She was their protector. 1476 00:59:21,166 --> 00:59:22,958 She was always around, 1477 00:59:22,958 --> 00:59:25,000 making sure nobody messed with her family. 1478 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:25,833 She was good at school, 1479 00:59:25,833 --> 00:59:29,291 and she wanted to be an attorney. 1480 00:59:29,291 --> 00:59:32,750 She wanted to be an attorney. 1481 00:59:32,750 --> 00:59:34,916 I remember that day like yesterday 1482 00:59:34,916 --> 00:59:38,666 because we were supposed to hang out, go to the movies, 1483 00:59:38,666 --> 00:59:40,416 and... 1484 00:59:40,416 --> 00:59:44,166 my grandmother told me to go to the store 1485 00:59:44,166 --> 00:59:46,333 to get some orange juice, 1486 00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:48,416 and it's the same store, 1487 00:59:48,416 --> 00:59:50,875 the same time. 1488 00:59:50,875 --> 00:59:52,291 And I said, "No, I don't feel like it." 1489 00:59:52,291 --> 00:59:53,875 You know, me and my sarcastic mouth. 1490 00:59:53,875 --> 00:59:55,791 "I don't feel like going." 1491 00:59:55,791 --> 00:59:58,541 And she said--and she said, "Okay. 1492 00:59:58,541 --> 01:00:00,125 Don't worry about it. I'll wait till Tasha get home." 1493 01:00:00,125 --> 01:00:01,500 I said, "Okay." 1494 01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:04,291 And she just never made it home. 1495 01:00:04,291 --> 01:00:07,708 I was so devastated because I could have been there. 1496 01:00:07,708 --> 01:00:09,666 I probably--it probably would have been me, I don't know, 1497 01:00:09,666 --> 01:00:13,166 but I could've-- I should have been there. 1498 01:00:13,166 --> 01:00:15,333 When my grandmother told me to go get the juice, go, 1499 01:00:15,333 --> 01:00:17,000 I should have just went and got the juice. 1500 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,375 Soon Ja Du starts yelling at her, like, 1501 01:00:18,375 --> 01:00:21,000 "Why are you stealing this, bitch?" 1502 01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:22,583 Like, "Quit stealing this." 1503 01:00:22,583 --> 01:00:25,708 So she's like, "I'm just trying to get this, you know, 1504 01:00:25,708 --> 01:00:28,541 to pay for it." Right? 1505 01:00:28,541 --> 01:00:31,250 And Latasha Harlins is turning to walk out and leave, 1506 01:00:31,250 --> 01:00:34,625 and she fires the gun. 1507 01:00:34,625 --> 01:00:36,041 It's fucking bullshit. 1508 01:00:36,041 --> 01:00:38,416 You know? 1509 01:00:38,416 --> 01:00:40,958 [Roy] You had a group of individuals 1510 01:00:40,958 --> 01:00:44,000 that work so hard to build this dream of theirs 1511 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:45,708 and have so much pride in what they're doing, 1512 01:00:45,708 --> 01:00:47,833 opening a shop that they put their whole life into. 1513 01:00:47,833 --> 01:00:51,041 In their mind they're kind of in a protection mode, 1514 01:00:51,041 --> 01:00:54,250 psychologically, right, protecting their store. 1515 01:00:54,250 --> 01:00:56,666 But not realizing that they're in a neighborhood 1516 01:00:56,666 --> 01:00:57,416 that's not theirs. 1517 01:00:57,416 --> 01:01:00,000 There was no, like, you know, 1518 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:01,791 they didn't greet them, you know, at the airport. 1519 01:01:01,791 --> 01:01:03,458 "Hey, you better read up a little bit on civil rights 1520 01:01:03,458 --> 01:01:05,791 history so you can maybe, you know, 1521 01:01:05,791 --> 01:01:06,958 when you open up that store in the hood, 1522 01:01:06,958 --> 01:01:09,916 maybe you might avoid 1992 that's gonna happen to you 1523 01:01:09,916 --> 01:01:11,291 in a couple of years." 1524 01:01:11,291 --> 01:01:15,375 It was the wedge that split apart 1525 01:01:15,375 --> 01:01:16,291 in a very open and visceral way, 1526 01:01:16,291 --> 01:01:19,250 the Korean immigrant community 1527 01:01:19,250 --> 01:01:19,958 and the African-American community. 1528 01:01:19,958 --> 01:01:21,666 Why don't you open up a market 1529 01:01:21,666 --> 01:01:23,083 that we can use for our families? 1530 01:01:23,083 --> 01:01:25,791 Go back to Korea! 1531 01:01:25,791 --> 01:01:27,500 We're the one making you-- why don't you hire blacks? 1532 01:01:27,500 --> 01:01:29,208 Why don't you hire blacks? 1533 01:01:29,208 --> 01:01:30,625 Ice Cube put a record called "Death Certificate" 1534 01:01:30,625 --> 01:01:32,333 and had a song called like "Black Korea." 1535 01:01:32,333 --> 01:01:33,166 This is what everyone was listening to, 1536 01:01:33,166 --> 01:01:34,916 my age, my color. 1537 01:01:34,916 --> 01:01:36,666 That came out before the riots as well, I believe. 1538 01:01:36,666 --> 01:01:38,333 And it was extremely prophetic. 1539 01:01:38,333 --> 01:01:43,333 ♪♪ 1540 01:01:56,291 --> 01:01:58,791 [Danny] The fact that Ice Cube made that song, 1541 01:01:58,791 --> 01:02:00,375 you know, he was only reflecting the reality 1542 01:02:00,375 --> 01:02:02,083 that we were living with. 1543 01:02:02,083 --> 01:02:04,500 "Black Korea" was like the one track, I think, 1544 01:02:04,500 --> 01:02:08,083 that probably impacted me the most 1545 01:02:08,083 --> 01:02:09,916 in my entire life. 1546 01:02:09,916 --> 01:02:12,291 If you don't have these things like truth speakers 1547 01:02:12,291 --> 01:02:14,958 through, you know, music or art, 1548 01:02:14,958 --> 01:02:16,208 then all you have is the media, you know what I mean? 1549 01:02:16,208 --> 01:02:19,416 All you have is the news. 1550 01:02:19,416 --> 01:02:21,708 And that's your main source of what truth is. 1551 01:02:21,708 --> 01:02:23,291 That was like the other side for me 1552 01:02:23,291 --> 01:02:25,458 to kind of listen to these other stories and voices. 1553 01:02:25,458 --> 01:02:28,166 And a lot of my friends were like, 1554 01:02:28,166 --> 01:02:29,791 "We're boycotting Ice Cube. 1555 01:02:29,791 --> 01:02:31,625 Fuck that dude." 1556 01:02:31,625 --> 01:02:33,875 You know? 1557 01:02:33,875 --> 01:02:35,416 But what gave Soon Ja Du the right 1558 01:02:35,416 --> 01:02:39,500 to take Latasha Harlins' life? 1559 01:02:39,500 --> 01:02:41,625 And who are we actually defending here? 1560 01:02:41,625 --> 01:02:43,166 Now, in that case, 1561 01:02:43,166 --> 01:02:44,583 justice was actually partially served 1562 01:02:44,583 --> 01:02:48,500 because Soon Ja Du was found guilty. 1563 01:02:48,500 --> 01:02:51,166 She was found guilty of manslaughter. 1564 01:02:51,166 --> 01:02:53,291 If you or I were found guilty of manslaughter 1565 01:02:53,291 --> 01:02:55,208 in the state of California, 1566 01:02:55,208 --> 01:02:58,166 we're probably going to be sentenced to 15 years in prison. 1567 01:02:58,166 --> 01:03:00,666 That's a typical sentence for that offense. 1568 01:03:00,666 --> 01:03:04,000 So the jury did their job in Soon Ja Du. 1569 01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,500 It was the judge, Judge Karlin, 1570 01:03:07,500 --> 01:03:10,708 she gave Soon Ja Du five years probation 1571 01:03:10,708 --> 01:03:12,625 for shooting a girl in the back of the head. 1572 01:03:12,625 --> 01:03:14,500 That's unheard of! 1573 01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:18,500 To suggest that any sentence that this court might give 1574 01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:21,166 results in the conclusion 1575 01:03:21,166 --> 01:03:24,375 that black children don't receive full protection 1576 01:03:24,375 --> 01:03:26,791 of the law, that is dangerous rhetoric. 1577 01:03:26,791 --> 01:03:30,083 And I can tell you, people were mad. 1578 01:03:30,083 --> 01:03:31,083 ♪ jazzy music ♪ 1579 01:03:31,083 --> 01:03:32,250 She got away with murder. 1580 01:03:32,250 --> 01:03:36,541 [crowd chanting] 1581 01:03:36,541 --> 01:03:37,833 Stop chilling our children! 1582 01:03:37,833 --> 01:03:39,375 We want justice! 1583 01:03:39,375 --> 01:03:42,041 One judge, one judge, 1584 01:03:42,041 --> 01:03:44,375 had the power to overturn that decision. 1585 01:03:44,375 --> 01:03:45,416 [Sacha] One white judge. 1586 01:03:45,416 --> 01:03:47,541 [both] One white judge. 1587 01:03:47,541 --> 01:03:48,791 [chanting] Karlin must go! 1588 01:03:48,791 --> 01:03:50,416 Karlin must go! 1589 01:03:50,416 --> 01:03:51,833 [Denise] Always wanted just one thing, 1590 01:03:51,833 --> 01:03:53,375 and that was justice for Latasha, 1591 01:03:53,375 --> 01:03:55,500 and to be shown that we mattered in this community, 1592 01:03:55,500 --> 01:03:57,916 we mattered in this city. 1593 01:03:57,916 --> 01:03:59,791 [indistinct chanting] 1594 01:03:59,791 --> 01:04:02,375 [Danny] Latasha Harlins was that explosive moment 1595 01:04:02,375 --> 01:04:03,791 that really sort of got everybody focused 1596 01:04:03,791 --> 01:04:07,000 on what was going on in our community 1597 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,666 and how badly our community was being treated 1598 01:04:08,666 --> 01:04:12,416 and how not much had really changed. 1599 01:04:12,416 --> 01:04:17,000 How long can you suppress and oppress people 1600 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,541 before you expect a reaction? 1601 01:04:19,541 --> 01:04:22,833 [man] We the jury in the above entitled action 1602 01:04:22,833 --> 01:04:25,333 find the defendant Lawrence M. Powell 1603 01:04:25,333 --> 01:04:27,791 not guilty of the crime of assault by force 1604 01:04:27,791 --> 01:04:31,500 likely to produce great violent injury by a deadly weapon. 1605 01:04:31,500 --> 01:04:35,916 This 29th day of April, 1992, signed by the foreman. 1606 01:04:35,916 --> 01:04:40,958 [Felicia] I remember April 29, 1992. 1607 01:04:40,958 --> 01:04:42,916 We were in the studio, 1608 01:04:42,916 --> 01:04:44,833 and the news broke 1609 01:04:44,833 --> 01:04:49,833 that the cops were, you know, let go. 1610 01:04:49,833 --> 01:04:50,958 It sends a bad message. 1611 01:04:50,958 --> 01:04:53,666 It says it's okay to go ahead and beat somebody 1612 01:04:53,666 --> 01:04:55,416 when they're down and kick the crap out of 'em, 1613 01:04:55,416 --> 01:04:56,791 and it's okay because if it's not videotaped, 1614 01:04:56,791 --> 01:04:59,000 don't worry about it, another brother officer 1615 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:00,458 won't turn you in, 1616 01:05:00,458 --> 01:05:02,458 and your brother officer does turn you in, 1617 01:05:02,458 --> 01:05:03,416 don't worry, we'll get white jurors or whoever who takes 1618 01:05:03,416 --> 01:05:05,041 and you'll walk. 1619 01:05:05,041 --> 01:05:07,041 [Perry] I was over on Florence and Normandie, 1620 01:05:07,041 --> 01:05:07,791 that little chili dog stand. 1621 01:05:07,791 --> 01:05:08,458 I'm there getting a chili dog, 1622 01:05:08,458 --> 01:05:10,666 I love the chili dogs, 1623 01:05:10,666 --> 01:05:13,625 and then this sister, she said, 1624 01:05:13,625 --> 01:05:16,625 "They let them white motherfuckers go." 1625 01:05:16,625 --> 01:05:18,666 Everybody like, "Oh, fuck this. Not again." 1626 01:05:18,666 --> 01:05:21,625 There was so much negative energy in the city. 1627 01:05:21,625 --> 01:05:23,708 Rodney King had his trial right here on the street 1628 01:05:23,708 --> 01:05:25,333 where he got beat. 1629 01:05:25,333 --> 01:05:27,041 Those four policemen were not judge and jury, 1630 01:05:27,041 --> 01:05:28,166 and I don't care what he did, if he did anything. 1631 01:05:28,166 --> 01:05:31,208 That did not give them the right to beat him out here. 1632 01:05:31,208 --> 01:05:32,666 They need to come out here and take a beating like that 1633 01:05:32,666 --> 01:05:34,041 'cause that was not right. 1634 01:05:34,041 --> 01:05:36,041 Several of the officers had obviously 1635 01:05:36,041 --> 01:05:39,458 done things that I thought were ineffective, 1636 01:05:39,458 --> 01:05:43,291 overly brutal, and probably criminal. 1637 01:05:43,291 --> 01:05:45,083 [Sacha] So you're saying, Chief Beck is saying 1638 01:05:45,083 --> 01:05:47,791 that the verdict was wrong? 1639 01:05:47,791 --> 01:05:49,291 No, I didn't say that. 1640 01:05:49,291 --> 01:05:51,166 [Sacha] Well, so what are you saying? 1641 01:05:51,166 --> 01:05:53,541 I'm saying--I'm saying what they did was wrong. 1642 01:05:53,541 --> 01:05:55,083 Right? 1643 01:05:55,083 --> 01:05:56,708 [Sacha] So you think the verdict was fair in-- 1644 01:05:56,708 --> 01:05:57,750 Oh, no. Excuse me. 1645 01:05:57,750 --> 01:06:00,333 I--you know what, let's... 1646 01:06:00,333 --> 01:06:02,250 Let me back this up. 1647 01:06:02,250 --> 01:06:03,875 Chief Beck is saying the prosecution 1648 01:06:03,875 --> 01:06:05,916 was correct, and you're right; 1649 01:06:05,916 --> 01:06:06,916 the verdict was wrong. 1650 01:06:06,916 --> 01:06:07,541 We knew that them officers 1651 01:06:07,541 --> 01:06:10,208 was going to go to jail. 1652 01:06:10,208 --> 01:06:11,916 You done beat that man down, 1653 01:06:11,916 --> 01:06:12,958 they done caught you on television, 1654 01:06:12,958 --> 01:06:13,875 they done got you on everything, 1655 01:06:13,875 --> 01:06:16,375 and when they let--when they let 'em go, 1656 01:06:16,375 --> 01:06:20,000 I mean, it was like... 1657 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,416 "Nigga, you gets no justice." 1658 01:06:22,416 --> 01:06:24,458 [news anchor] The four officers left the courthouse 1659 01:06:24,458 --> 01:06:27,541 to face an angry court of public opinion outside. 1660 01:06:27,541 --> 01:06:29,375 [Gumbel] There are quite a few police officers 1661 01:06:29,375 --> 01:06:31,333 gathered here outside the courthouse now 1662 01:06:31,333 --> 01:06:33,875 to maintain order, as each of the four LA cops leaves. 1663 01:06:33,875 --> 01:06:37,750 I do not seek to explain the jury's decision, 1664 01:06:37,750 --> 01:06:41,208 because frankly, no explanation makes sense. 1665 01:06:41,208 --> 01:06:44,375 What were the rules, let's say, 1666 01:06:44,375 --> 01:06:47,916 like, rules of engagement for the police officers? 1667 01:06:47,916 --> 01:06:51,291 Could they do this? Or could they do that? 1668 01:06:51,291 --> 01:06:54,666 And the testimony that we heard is, yeah, they could do it. 1669 01:06:54,666 --> 01:06:55,916 If the guy was resisting arrest, 1670 01:06:55,916 --> 01:07:00,000 they could swing their batons until he stopped. 1671 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,750 But I do know this: 1672 01:07:01,750 --> 01:07:04,625 The jury's verdict will never outlive the images 1673 01:07:04,625 --> 01:07:06,333 of this savage beating, 1674 01:07:06,333 --> 01:07:09,250 seared forever into our minds and our souls. 1675 01:07:09,250 --> 01:07:12,416 This was a modern-day lynching. 1676 01:07:12,416 --> 01:07:13,958 Cops can make mistakes, 1677 01:07:13,958 --> 01:07:15,750 and we sure make mistakes, 1678 01:07:15,750 --> 01:07:18,083 but we pay for our mistakes, you know? 1679 01:07:18,083 --> 01:07:19,625 We pay for our bad decisions. 1680 01:07:19,625 --> 01:07:21,375 We go to jail for our bad decisions 1681 01:07:21,375 --> 01:07:22,625 or we die for our bad decisions. 1682 01:07:22,625 --> 01:07:24,375 There's some type of consequence, 1683 01:07:24,375 --> 01:07:27,958 but for them, it just seems over and over and over, 1684 01:07:27,958 --> 01:07:29,666 they just have to--they just have to, you know, 1685 01:07:29,666 --> 01:07:31,375 a right to kill or beat the shit out of you. 1686 01:07:31,375 --> 01:07:33,000 And I could just see on the monitor, 1687 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,958 just all around the city, 1688 01:07:34,958 --> 01:07:36,791 stuff just started happening. 1689 01:07:36,791 --> 01:07:38,583 I was gathering--"Did you hear about what happened?" 1690 01:07:38,583 --> 01:07:41,291 I'm just in my neighborhood, which is Bloods, 1691 01:07:41,291 --> 01:07:43,916 and then other Bloods start coming to our neighborhood, 1692 01:07:43,916 --> 01:07:44,875 and we're trying to figure out what we're going to do, 1693 01:07:44,875 --> 01:07:48,041 and this was going on all over the city. 1694 01:07:48,041 --> 01:07:49,708 [man] Officer down. 1695 01:07:49,708 --> 01:07:54,291 [inaudible], here he comes. 1696 01:07:54,291 --> 01:07:57,125 Officer down. 1697 01:07:57,125 --> 01:07:59,333 There was an incident between the Eight Tray Gangster Crips 1698 01:07:59,333 --> 01:08:01,625 and the LAPD. 1699 01:08:01,625 --> 01:08:03,458 [indistinct chatter] 1700 01:08:03,458 --> 01:08:05,291 And they threw blows; they had fist fights. 1701 01:08:05,291 --> 01:08:07,291 You know what I mean? It got bad. 1702 01:08:07,291 --> 01:08:10,375 [man] Video camera! Video camera! 1703 01:08:10,375 --> 01:08:11,833 [Cle] I applaud them and salute them 1704 01:08:11,833 --> 01:08:13,916 because they stood up to the cops 1705 01:08:13,916 --> 01:08:16,332 right there at that time and period. 1706 01:08:16,332 --> 01:08:18,500 [indistinct chatter] 1707 01:08:18,500 --> 01:08:20,207 And the LAPD retreated. 1708 01:08:29,875 --> 01:08:31,625 [Mike] They went in, 1709 01:08:31,625 --> 01:08:32,582 they raised the emotional temperature 1710 01:08:32,582 --> 01:08:34,667 above the boiling point, 1711 01:08:34,667 --> 01:08:35,750 and then they left. 1712 01:08:35,750 --> 01:08:38,000 The voices are starting to rise, 1713 01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,375 rise, rise, rise. 1714 01:08:39,375 --> 01:08:41,332 We were sick and tired of being sick and tired 1715 01:08:41,332 --> 01:08:42,082 of being sick and tired. 1716 01:08:42,082 --> 01:08:44,082 And we weren't taking it no more. 1717 01:08:44,082 --> 01:08:45,082 [indistinct chatter] 1718 01:08:45,082 --> 01:08:48,625 ♪ rock music ♪ 1719 01:08:48,625 --> 01:08:51,000 [news anchor] Everybody here expected some turmoil 1720 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:53,500 following yesterday's surprise courtroom verdicts, 1721 01:08:53,500 --> 01:08:55,125 but no one imagined the kind of violent orgy 1722 01:08:55,125 --> 01:08:58,041 that took place in the streets here. 1723 01:08:58,041 --> 01:08:59,625 [Karen] I was actually on the corner 1724 01:08:59,625 --> 01:09:00,917 of Florence and Normandie 1725 01:09:00,917 --> 01:09:02,207 when the riots started. 1726 01:09:02,207 --> 01:09:06,041 Community leaders had said the day of the verdicts, 1727 01:09:06,041 --> 01:09:08,582 everyone should go to First AME Church. 1728 01:09:08,582 --> 01:09:12,166 So I got in my car along with one of my coworkers 1729 01:09:12,166 --> 01:09:14,166 and I saw all of this congestion. 1730 01:09:14,166 --> 01:09:16,875 So as I pulled up on the corner, 1731 01:09:16,875 --> 01:09:19,125 I realized that there was a whole group of people 1732 01:09:19,125 --> 01:09:21,542 that were standing there, throwing bricks and rocks 1733 01:09:21,542 --> 01:09:23,082 into cars. 1734 01:09:23,082 --> 01:09:25,708 When I saw that, I sped up real quickly. 1735 01:09:25,708 --> 01:09:28,375 I missed the brick, but my coworker got the brick. 1736 01:09:28,375 --> 01:09:33,542 ♪♪ 1737 01:09:33,542 --> 01:09:36,082 All along the way and on that corner 1738 01:09:36,082 --> 01:09:38,582 there were no police, period. 1739 01:09:38,582 --> 01:09:40,917 The police were completely invisible. 1740 01:09:40,917 --> 01:09:42,792 [man] Y'all better turn the fuck around. 1741 01:09:42,792 --> 01:09:45,291 [man] [inaudible] from Battalion 13. 1742 01:09:45,291 --> 01:09:46,917 Uh, we've just been taken out. 1743 01:09:46,917 --> 01:09:48,417 We got bottles through the window. 1744 01:09:48,417 --> 01:09:50,166 Fuck the motherfuckin' police! 1745 01:09:50,166 --> 01:09:51,750 [news anchor] The war zone 1746 01:09:51,750 --> 01:09:53,750 was a five-square-mile section of the city, 1747 01:09:53,750 --> 01:09:55,125 known for its high crime and poverty, 1748 01:09:55,125 --> 01:09:58,667 but there was some trouble everywhere. 1749 01:09:58,667 --> 01:10:00,417 Across town at the city's police headquarters, 1750 01:10:00,417 --> 01:10:03,708 a crowd of several hundred tried to rush the building. 1751 01:10:03,708 --> 01:10:06,582 They taunted patrolmen who stood shoulder to shoulder 1752 01:10:06,582 --> 01:10:08,000 in riot gear. 1753 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,250 [man] Hold the line! Hold the line! 1754 01:10:09,250 --> 01:10:10,582 Hold the line! 1755 01:10:10,582 --> 01:10:12,417 Why are they sending the brothers out? 1756 01:10:12,417 --> 01:10:14,500 So [inaudible], I don't want to see my brothers and my sisters 1757 01:10:14,500 --> 01:10:15,125 [inaudible]. 1758 01:10:15,125 --> 01:10:20,708 [indistinct chanting] 1759 01:10:26,457 --> 01:10:27,582 I'm looking at all this. 1760 01:10:27,582 --> 01:10:29,500 [woman] Eating a chili dog. 1761 01:10:29,500 --> 01:10:31,332 I'm eating a chili--but I'm looking at this, 'cause-- 1762 01:10:31,332 --> 01:10:32,500 it was amazing. 1763 01:10:32,500 --> 01:10:34,708 It was like... 1764 01:10:34,708 --> 01:10:36,792 '65 all over again. 1765 01:10:36,792 --> 01:10:38,750 [indistinct chatter] 1766 01:10:38,750 --> 01:10:40,125 There's a movement going on. 1767 01:10:40,125 --> 01:10:42,207 Hey, man. Fuck the white man! 1768 01:10:42,207 --> 01:10:43,291 Fuck y'all. We killin'. 1769 01:10:43,291 --> 01:10:45,667 [Tom] I got home and both my daughters were home 1770 01:10:45,667 --> 01:10:46,792 watching television. 1771 01:10:46,792 --> 01:10:48,207 And I pulled in the driveway, 1772 01:10:48,207 --> 01:10:50,667 and they came out and they said, "Dad, Dad, 1773 01:10:50,667 --> 01:10:51,667 you won't believe what's going on. 1774 01:10:51,667 --> 01:10:52,792 There's a riot." 1775 01:10:52,792 --> 01:10:54,875 And I said, "What do you mean?" 1776 01:10:54,875 --> 01:10:56,332 And I go inside and I look at the television 1777 01:10:56,332 --> 01:10:58,875 and I see what's going on at Florence and Normandie. 1778 01:10:58,875 --> 01:11:00,833 [horns honking] 1779 01:11:00,833 --> 01:11:02,582 I ran out to the police car, 1780 01:11:02,582 --> 01:11:03,708 I got on the radio, I said that "There is 1781 01:11:03,708 --> 01:11:06,082 a homicide in progress. 1782 01:11:06,082 --> 01:11:09,000 Respond all units, code three." 1783 01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:09,875 About a minute and a half, two minutes later, 1784 01:11:09,875 --> 01:11:13,000 I didn't see any units. 1785 01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,000 So I get on the radio again, 1786 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:19,542 and then she says, "Commander 12 rescinded your order." 1787 01:11:19,542 --> 01:11:21,417 And I thought to myself, "What is happening? 1788 01:11:21,417 --> 01:11:23,332 What's going on here? This is crazy. 1789 01:11:23,332 --> 01:11:24,082 There's no police there." 1790 01:11:24,082 --> 01:11:26,417 [man] The police were marshalled 1791 01:11:26,417 --> 01:11:28,625 within four blocks of where it started. 1792 01:11:28,625 --> 01:11:30,417 If they had just gone there and stopped it, 1793 01:11:30,417 --> 01:11:32,375 there would never have been a riot. 1794 01:11:32,375 --> 01:11:33,332 [Karen] Of course we learned later 1795 01:11:33,332 --> 01:11:36,041 that our illustrious chief of police 1796 01:11:36,041 --> 01:11:38,917 was on the other side of town at a fundraiser 1797 01:11:38,917 --> 01:11:41,500 to fight the ballot measure 1798 01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:43,041 that we were organizing around 1799 01:11:43,041 --> 01:11:46,166 to bring him under control. 1800 01:11:46,166 --> 01:11:48,582 What he did was, he basically said, "Okay, you guys 1801 01:11:48,582 --> 01:11:49,375 don't like police? 1802 01:11:49,375 --> 01:11:51,667 Fine. None will be around." 1803 01:11:51,667 --> 01:11:54,207 There's no way to explain no police officers, 1804 01:11:54,207 --> 01:11:55,750 because you're talking about an area that was always 1805 01:11:55,750 --> 01:11:56,750 heavily policed. 1806 01:11:56,750 --> 01:11:59,250 [horns blaring] 1807 01:11:59,250 --> 01:12:02,958 About eight o'clock or so, Chief Gates showed up. 1808 01:12:02,958 --> 01:12:04,417 [man] What have you been able to do so far tonight, Chief Gates? 1809 01:12:04,417 --> 01:12:09,000 Well, we're, I think, slowly getting in control. 1810 01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:10,542 As you see, we're out in force 1811 01:12:10,542 --> 01:12:16,041 and officers are beginning to make arrests more and more, 1812 01:12:16,041 --> 01:12:20,875 and I think we will begin to impress upon the people 1813 01:12:20,875 --> 01:12:24,000 in this area that we mean business. 1814 01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:27,250 [Charlie] The city, it's just aglow with fire. 1815 01:12:27,250 --> 01:12:29,792 Total chaos. Total chaos. 1816 01:12:29,792 --> 01:12:31,000 [indistinct radio chatter] 1817 01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,750 ♪ jazzy music ♪ 1818 01:12:33,750 --> 01:12:35,457 [Eric] I remember driving from my house. 1819 01:12:35,457 --> 01:12:37,582 I lived in Carson, who bordered Compton. 1820 01:12:37,582 --> 01:12:39,792 I get on the 110 freeway. 1821 01:12:39,792 --> 01:12:41,375 Firetrucks, emergency vehicles, 1822 01:12:41,375 --> 01:12:43,750 police officers, just flying up and down the freeway, 1823 01:12:43,750 --> 01:12:46,332 smoke, fires. 1824 01:12:46,332 --> 01:12:47,625 [Everlast] Me and B-Real, 1825 01:12:47,625 --> 01:12:49,000 we were fucking smoking crazy ass weed 1826 01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:50,875 and shrooming our brains out. 1827 01:12:50,875 --> 01:12:52,125 And as we're coming over the last hill 1828 01:12:52,125 --> 01:12:55,125 before you see the greater part of LA, 1829 01:12:55,125 --> 01:12:57,750 it looks to me like LA is on fire. 1830 01:12:57,750 --> 01:12:59,250 And I say to B, I was like, "Yo, 1831 01:12:59,250 --> 01:13:01,750 it looks like everything is on fire, dude." 1832 01:13:01,750 --> 01:13:02,792 He was like, "Dude, it does." 1833 01:13:02,792 --> 01:13:04,708 We were fucked up. 1834 01:13:04,708 --> 01:13:06,582 [B-Real] All you could see is black smoke 1835 01:13:06,582 --> 01:13:08,291 all through the city coming into Los Angeles. 1836 01:13:08,291 --> 01:13:11,625 We were fucking like, "Whoa, what the fuck? 1837 01:13:11,625 --> 01:13:13,207 Is this the apocalypse?" 1838 01:13:13,207 --> 01:13:15,207 [horn blaring] 1839 01:13:15,207 --> 01:13:17,125 [news anchor] The anger kept pouring out. 1840 01:13:17,125 --> 01:13:19,958 Crowds soon began throwing rocks and bottles 1841 01:13:19,958 --> 01:13:21,332 and setting fires. 1842 01:13:21,332 --> 01:13:23,207 Still, the police held back. 1843 01:13:23,207 --> 01:13:24,291 The greedy began looting, 1844 01:13:24,291 --> 01:13:28,291 and it continued for hours unchecked. 1845 01:13:28,291 --> 01:13:30,542 Dozens of buildings have been torched 1846 01:13:30,542 --> 01:13:32,375 and firetrucks couldn't get anywhere near 1847 01:13:32,375 --> 01:13:34,125 for fear of being attacked. 1848 01:13:34,125 --> 01:13:35,750 I was at fire station 17, 1849 01:13:35,750 --> 01:13:36,958 which is on the east side of Los Angeles 1850 01:13:36,958 --> 01:13:38,500 in the industrial area. 1851 01:13:38,500 --> 01:13:42,332 We were at the furniture building, 1852 01:13:42,332 --> 01:13:46,125 and we needed some fuel for the chainsaw, 1853 01:13:46,125 --> 01:13:48,417 so I ran back to get the fuel, 1854 01:13:48,417 --> 01:13:52,500 and this lady came running at me with this ax, 1855 01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:55,542 and since I was in the compartment with the chainsaw, 1856 01:13:55,542 --> 01:13:56,833 I just grabbed it. 1857 01:13:56,833 --> 01:14:00,207 So I started it up and I told her, I said, "Don't miss." 1858 01:14:00,207 --> 01:14:04,082 And she looked at me, smiled, dropped the ax. 1859 01:14:04,082 --> 01:14:06,166 And then she left. 1860 01:14:06,166 --> 01:14:09,708 And I was--I was like, "I really didn't want to have to go there, 1861 01:14:09,708 --> 01:14:10,667 but I would have went there." 1862 01:14:10,667 --> 01:14:13,000 - [indistinct chatter] - [horn honking] 1863 01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:14,417 I got some video you would love! 1864 01:14:14,417 --> 01:14:18,207 I swear to God! People's reactions and stuff! 1865 01:14:18,207 --> 01:14:20,166 And they'll talk to me 'cause I'm black! 1866 01:14:20,166 --> 01:14:21,207 ♪ hip-hop music ♪ 1867 01:14:21,207 --> 01:14:23,667 [crowd cheering] 1868 01:14:23,667 --> 01:14:26,542 ♪♪ 1869 01:14:26,542 --> 01:14:28,457 ♪ Let's make noise ♪ 1870 01:14:28,457 --> 01:14:30,542 ♪ Let's make noise, come on ♪ 1871 01:14:30,542 --> 01:14:34,750 ♪ The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire ♪ 1872 01:14:34,750 --> 01:14:39,041 ♪ We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn ♪ 1873 01:14:39,041 --> 01:14:41,667 ♪ Burn, motherfucker, burn ♪ 1874 01:14:49,041 --> 01:14:50,750 You a fuckin' redneck. 1875 01:14:53,125 --> 01:14:55,625 ♪♪ 1876 01:14:55,625 --> 01:14:57,917 [man] Everybody get to the corner of the crosswalk 1877 01:14:57,917 --> 01:14:58,875 'cause you're going to jail. 1878 01:14:58,875 --> 01:15:01,166 You're gonna go real quick, young man. 1879 01:15:03,375 --> 01:15:05,457 [B-Real] We tried to get through the city as safely as possible, 1880 01:15:05,457 --> 01:15:06,457 'cause out there was a little treacherous 1881 01:15:06,457 --> 01:15:09,417 depending on where you were going to. 1882 01:15:09,417 --> 01:15:11,917 But, you know, we always were strapped. 1883 01:15:11,917 --> 01:15:12,667 [laughs] 1884 01:15:12,667 --> 01:15:14,958 We were rolling crazy back then, 1885 01:15:14,958 --> 01:15:18,667 so we didn't really fear for our lives in that sense. 1886 01:15:18,667 --> 01:15:20,375 I mean, you know, because were part of the ones 1887 01:15:20,375 --> 01:15:22,082 talking about this shit. 1888 01:15:22,082 --> 01:15:24,291 ♪ Here is something you can't understand ♪ 1889 01:15:24,291 --> 01:15:26,207 ♪ How I could just kill a man ♪ 1890 01:15:26,207 --> 01:15:28,125 ♪ Here is something you can't understand ♪ 1891 01:15:28,125 --> 01:15:30,917 ♪ How I could just kill a man ♪ 1892 01:15:30,917 --> 01:15:32,500 [helicopter whirring] 1893 01:15:32,500 --> 01:15:33,708 [news anchor] And the agony continued 1894 01:15:33,708 --> 01:15:34,875 long after the sun came up. 1895 01:15:34,875 --> 01:15:36,125 [glass shattering] 1896 01:15:36,125 --> 01:15:37,875 [man] Fire is fire. 1897 01:15:37,875 --> 01:15:38,625 You can control that. Can't control people. 1898 01:15:38,625 --> 01:15:40,582 [news anchor] A full 24 hours 1899 01:15:40,582 --> 01:15:42,375 after the stunning verdicts, 1900 01:15:42,375 --> 01:15:45,291 Los Angeles is still on edge. 1901 01:15:45,291 --> 01:15:46,291 [siren blaring] 1902 01:15:46,291 --> 01:15:48,250 [man] 1930 hours, day two. 1903 01:15:48,250 --> 01:15:50,625 War zone's getting thicker. 1904 01:15:50,625 --> 01:15:53,332 Geez, looks like Beirut or something. 1905 01:15:53,332 --> 01:15:55,041 Get your anger, your frustration, 1906 01:15:55,041 --> 01:15:56,457 your hard feelings, 1907 01:15:56,457 --> 01:15:58,625 not out on the streets, not breaking windows, 1908 01:15:58,625 --> 01:16:00,792 not looting, not rioting. 1909 01:16:00,792 --> 01:16:01,792 This is what bothers me. 1910 01:16:01,792 --> 01:16:03,457 It's like, people done watching television 1911 01:16:03,457 --> 01:16:06,291 and they're listening to the radio, obviously. 1912 01:16:06,291 --> 01:16:08,708 They hear or they see that nothing is being done, 1913 01:16:08,708 --> 01:16:10,291 so they're like, "Well, I'm gonna go out 1914 01:16:10,291 --> 01:16:11,291 and get something." 1915 01:16:11,291 --> 01:16:12,457 [man] Hey, why hide, man? 1916 01:16:12,457 --> 01:16:13,625 [shouts] Okay? 1917 01:16:13,625 --> 01:16:14,125 [woman] Hey, what did you get? 1918 01:16:14,125 --> 01:16:15,291 - Shoes. - Shoes? 1919 01:16:15,291 --> 01:16:17,750 - Yeah. - Where do you live? 1920 01:16:17,750 --> 01:16:19,375 - Right here. - Why did you do this? 1921 01:16:19,375 --> 01:16:21,667 I don't know, because it's free. 1922 01:16:21,667 --> 01:16:22,542 - 'Cause it's free? - Yeah. 1923 01:16:22,542 --> 01:16:24,417 - Don't you know it's wrong? - Nah. 1924 01:16:24,417 --> 01:16:26,792 Look at me. What are you doing? 1925 01:16:26,792 --> 01:16:28,708 - I don't know. - Are you embarrassed? 1926 01:16:28,708 --> 01:16:30,000 Nothing! 1927 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:31,542 Don't you know this is illegal? 1928 01:16:31,542 --> 01:16:32,332 [man] I've been taking pictures of the police. 1929 01:16:32,332 --> 01:16:34,207 They ain't been doing nothing. 1930 01:16:34,207 --> 01:16:36,000 I got it all on camera here. 1931 01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:37,000 Man, it's amazing. Let me get this shot here. 1932 01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:38,833 [siren blaring] 1933 01:16:38,833 --> 01:16:41,250 [George Bush] I'm one who respects our police. 1934 01:16:41,250 --> 01:16:44,792 They keep the peace, they face danger every day, 1935 01:16:44,792 --> 01:16:45,625 they help kids, 1936 01:16:45,625 --> 01:16:48,166 they don't make a lot of money, 1937 01:16:48,166 --> 01:16:49,958 but they care about their communities 1938 01:16:49,958 --> 01:16:51,542 and their country. 1939 01:16:51,542 --> 01:16:54,875 Thousands of police officers and firefighters 1940 01:16:54,875 --> 01:16:58,166 are risking their lives right now on the streets of LA 1941 01:16:58,166 --> 01:17:00,582 and they deserve our support. 1942 01:17:01,250 --> 01:17:05,125 [indistinct radio chatter] 1943 01:17:05,125 --> 01:17:06,207 [man] How are those Rice Krispies? 1944 01:17:06,207 --> 01:17:08,792 Hey. Right in the box. 1945 01:17:08,792 --> 01:17:12,207 [indistinct chatter] 1946 01:17:12,207 --> 01:17:15,000 Since the start of it, the very start. 1947 01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,457 Do you feel any fatigue at this time? 1948 01:17:17,457 --> 01:17:18,291 Yeah. 1949 01:17:18,291 --> 01:17:20,291 I'm tired, I'm wearing down, 1950 01:17:20,291 --> 01:17:22,875 nobody can make a decision. 1951 01:17:22,875 --> 01:17:27,207 You got all these damn brass that, uh, 1952 01:17:27,207 --> 01:17:30,542 try and make a decision, and it ends up 1953 01:17:30,542 --> 01:17:32,542 that the troops out there in the field 1954 01:17:32,542 --> 01:17:34,582 are getting left out. 1955 01:17:34,582 --> 01:17:39,207 You have the incompetents who are now leading us, 1956 01:17:39,207 --> 01:17:40,750 and they can't even lead the troops as it is. 1957 01:17:40,750 --> 01:17:45,166 So I don't even know what the hell we're doing out here. 1958 01:17:45,166 --> 01:17:47,375 [Dee] The police were more interested in containment, 1959 01:17:47,375 --> 01:17:51,082 not stopping it whatsoever. 1960 01:17:51,082 --> 01:17:52,792 They were not allowing people to come up and here 1961 01:17:52,792 --> 01:17:54,082 and then loot and tear up Beverly Hills, 1962 01:17:54,082 --> 01:17:57,041 but you can stay over there on this side of Wilshire. 1963 01:17:57,041 --> 01:17:59,457 [chuckles] That was shocking to me, too, 1964 01:17:59,457 --> 01:18:01,207 like, you know, 'cause you're looking around. 1965 01:18:01,207 --> 01:18:02,082 You're saying, "Well, where are the police 1966 01:18:02,082 --> 01:18:03,125 when this is happening?" 1967 01:18:03,125 --> 01:18:04,542 You watch the news 1968 01:18:04,542 --> 01:18:06,375 and the news only talked about black people. 1969 01:18:06,375 --> 01:18:08,833 It really wound up being citywide. 1970 01:18:08,833 --> 01:18:10,750 I called it the Rainbow Revolt, 1971 01:18:10,750 --> 01:18:14,542 because white folks were participating in the looting. 1972 01:18:14,542 --> 01:18:17,207 I had just bought a home in Venice 1973 01:18:17,207 --> 01:18:19,082 that needed furniture, 1974 01:18:19,082 --> 01:18:22,917 and the whole place was furnished with stolen furniture. 1975 01:18:22,917 --> 01:18:26,417 That riot was the fuel for us to kind of misbehave 1976 01:18:26,417 --> 01:18:30,457 and get a lot of shit out of our system 1977 01:18:30,457 --> 01:18:32,667 that we had pent up, 1978 01:18:32,667 --> 01:18:36,250 and we really--really felt good. 1979 01:18:36,250 --> 01:18:38,082 [Eric] Let's go back to the phones. 1980 01:18:38,082 --> 01:18:39,792 Hey, what is your name, and where are you calling from? 1981 01:18:39,792 --> 01:18:41,750 [Joyce] My name is Joyce calling from Long Beach. 1982 01:18:41,750 --> 01:18:42,958 - [Eric] Yes, Joyce. - [Joyce] We're angry because 1983 01:18:42,958 --> 01:18:48,417 it's showing that we as blacks together are nothing. 1984 01:18:48,417 --> 01:18:50,041 That's what they're saying to us. 1985 01:18:50,041 --> 01:18:52,917 We mean nothing. 1986 01:18:52,917 --> 01:18:54,792 I came home from work tonight, 1987 01:18:54,792 --> 01:18:58,500 and I'm looking at women cheering these people on, 1988 01:18:58,500 --> 01:19:00,250 they're smashing windows, 1989 01:19:00,250 --> 01:19:01,917 they're burning our supermarkets. 1990 01:19:01,917 --> 01:19:03,792 Where the hell else can we go to get food 1991 01:19:03,792 --> 01:19:05,625 and get treated with some amount of decency? 1992 01:19:05,625 --> 01:19:09,542 Yes, I'm hurt that the verdict was what it was, 1993 01:19:09,542 --> 01:19:10,792 but I'm hurt for my people. 1994 01:19:10,792 --> 01:19:15,250 This certainly isn't what you call a damn revolution. 1995 01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:16,917 Out of there with the food. 1996 01:19:16,917 --> 01:19:18,750 I--I got to do some shopping. 1997 01:19:18,750 --> 01:19:20,792 I don't have any food in the house. 1998 01:19:20,792 --> 01:19:23,125 [crying] 1999 01:19:23,125 --> 01:19:25,291 Yeah! 2000 01:19:25,291 --> 01:19:26,291 [horn honking] 2001 01:19:26,291 --> 01:19:30,082 ♪ eerie music ♪ 2002 01:19:30,082 --> 01:19:33,207 [news anchor] Some looters spared black-owned businesses 2003 01:19:33,207 --> 01:19:35,875 but ransacked the Asian stores next-door. 2004 01:19:35,875 --> 01:19:38,041 [Walter] We're gonna take back our community. 2005 01:19:38,041 --> 01:19:39,625 If we allowed you to come in before, 2006 01:19:39,625 --> 01:19:41,625 maybe we made a mistake, but now we're telling you 2007 01:19:41,625 --> 01:19:41,750 you must go. 2008 01:20:11,125 --> 01:20:12,500 Don't break anything, okay? 2009 01:20:12,500 --> 01:20:13,457 I'm not. 2010 01:20:13,457 --> 01:20:16,542 Are all the chips gone? 2011 01:20:16,542 --> 01:20:18,875 ♪ A riot baby, the fire raised me in '92 ♪ 2012 01:20:18,875 --> 01:20:20,582 ♪ All the homies told me fuck the police ♪ 2013 01:20:20,582 --> 01:20:22,625 ♪ We should go and loot ♪ 2014 01:20:22,625 --> 01:20:23,833 ♪ But my father tell me if they get too close to you ♪ 2015 01:20:23,833 --> 01:20:24,917 ♪ You should shoot ♪ 2016 01:20:24,917 --> 01:20:26,833 ♪ I was conflicted ♪ 2017 01:20:26,833 --> 01:20:27,958 ♪ What's a little soldier supposed to do? ♪ 2018 01:20:27,958 --> 01:20:28,875 I think my dad, you know, 2019 01:20:28,875 --> 01:20:30,917 was, like a lot of our family members too, 2020 01:20:30,917 --> 01:20:32,667 the older folks, they participated 2021 01:20:32,667 --> 01:20:34,958 in, like, I guess, helping out some of the businesses 2022 01:20:34,958 --> 01:20:36,082 and protecting 'em and stuff. 2023 01:20:36,082 --> 01:20:38,082 [news reporter] People who are African-American 2024 01:20:38,082 --> 01:20:40,082 are coming through this neighborhood. 2025 01:20:40,082 --> 01:20:41,291 The roadblocks have basically been taken--not taken down; 2026 01:20:41,291 --> 01:20:42,000 they've moved. 2027 01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:42,708 Does that make you nervous, 2028 01:20:42,708 --> 01:20:44,667 when you see people driving by 2029 01:20:44,667 --> 01:20:46,207 who are of another color? 2030 01:20:46,207 --> 01:20:47,667 - Yeah. - Right now, yeah. 2031 01:20:47,667 --> 01:20:49,667 There are a lot of-- if you look out there, 2032 01:20:49,667 --> 01:20:51,833 there are a lot of Hispanic and Black people out there 2033 01:20:51,833 --> 01:20:53,375 and they're just roaming around, 2034 01:20:53,375 --> 01:20:55,082 packed in their cars, running out, 2035 01:20:55,082 --> 01:20:56,917 trying to loot something or pillage something. 2036 01:20:56,917 --> 01:20:59,917 The young kids, the 20-year-olds, 18-year-olds, 2037 01:20:59,917 --> 01:21:02,708 19-year-olds, we kind of were tasked with, like, 2038 01:21:02,708 --> 01:21:03,500 patrolling the streets. 2039 01:21:03,500 --> 01:21:06,041 And so it took a couple days, 2040 01:21:06,041 --> 01:21:09,625 but basically we started to kind of protect the borders. 2041 01:21:09,625 --> 01:21:11,625 [gunfire] 2042 01:21:13,582 --> 01:21:16,125 [man] I don't understand this. 2043 01:21:16,125 --> 01:21:18,542 I mean, just unbelievable, inhumane things happen. 2044 01:21:18,542 --> 01:21:20,833 [woman] They are good people. 2045 01:21:20,833 --> 01:21:24,000 They have been good to my mother and my father. 2046 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,250 They... it's just ridiculous. 2047 01:21:26,250 --> 01:21:28,582 This is just ridiculous. Just forget it. 2048 01:21:28,582 --> 01:21:30,250 [news anchor] So many whites 2049 01:21:30,250 --> 01:21:31,917 have barricaded their neighborhoods, 2050 01:21:31,917 --> 01:21:34,750 and the days of fear and rage know no color. 2051 01:21:34,750 --> 01:21:36,875 We, the white people, would not have gone out to burn 2052 01:21:36,875 --> 01:21:38,792 the black neighborhoods. 2053 01:21:38,792 --> 01:21:40,375 [news anchor] National Guard troops have moved into 2054 01:21:40,375 --> 01:21:41,958 riot-torn sections of Los Angeles. 2055 01:21:41,958 --> 01:21:44,582 The troops have been deployed to route looters 2056 01:21:44,582 --> 01:21:45,750 and seize control of neighborhoods. 2057 01:21:45,750 --> 01:21:47,417 [news anchor] Curfew has been imposed 2058 01:21:47,417 --> 01:21:50,041 going from dusk to dawn. 2059 01:21:50,041 --> 01:21:52,833 [Eric] It is--encompasses Crenshaw to Alameda, 2060 01:21:52,833 --> 01:21:54,000 Century to Vernon. 2061 01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:55,582 And there's a curfew on, 2062 01:21:55,582 --> 01:21:57,250 and if you're in that area, 2063 01:21:57,250 --> 01:21:59,500 you are subjected to being arrested. 2064 01:21:59,500 --> 01:22:01,792 Any of you got IDs? 2065 01:22:01,792 --> 01:22:02,833 Turn around! 2066 01:22:02,833 --> 01:22:07,082 ♪ hip-hop music ♪ 2067 01:22:07,082 --> 01:22:07,958 [Alex] I was a little nervous 2068 01:22:07,958 --> 01:22:09,542 because they were shooting people 2069 01:22:09,542 --> 01:22:10,792 that were out in the curfew. 2070 01:22:10,792 --> 01:22:12,125 [Sacha] Who was shooting? 2071 01:22:12,125 --> 01:22:12,792 Law enforcement. 2072 01:22:12,792 --> 01:22:14,792 They were shooting people. 2073 01:22:14,792 --> 01:22:16,291 If you were in groups, you got shot. 2074 01:22:16,291 --> 01:22:18,207 There were at least ten or eleven 2075 01:22:18,207 --> 01:22:21,875 officer-involved shootings during those three days. 2076 01:22:26,332 --> 01:22:28,332 Who me? 2077 01:22:28,332 --> 01:22:32,500 ♪♪ 2078 01:22:32,500 --> 01:22:34,041 [Yo Yo] Just looking at the community, 2079 01:22:34,041 --> 01:22:36,625 a community that was already suffering, 2080 01:22:36,625 --> 01:22:40,332 to me it was just like, "Wow," you know? 2081 01:22:40,332 --> 01:22:41,625 Ten steps back 2082 01:22:41,625 --> 01:22:43,417 instead of pushing ten steps forward. 2083 01:22:43,417 --> 01:22:47,542 So I understood... 2084 01:22:49,833 --> 01:22:53,625 ...but I was still sad about the whole situation. 2085 01:22:53,625 --> 01:22:55,542 The civil unrest in Los Angeles is now the deadliest 2086 01:22:55,542 --> 01:22:56,582 in the city's history. 2087 01:22:56,582 --> 01:22:59,667 Worse than Watts in 1965. 2088 01:22:59,667 --> 01:23:02,166 In three days of violence this week, 2089 01:23:02,166 --> 01:23:05,332 at least 37 people have been killed, 2090 01:23:05,332 --> 01:23:07,833 more than 1,300 injured, 2091 01:23:07,833 --> 01:23:10,082 there have been more than 3,000 arrests, 2092 01:23:10,082 --> 01:23:12,833 property damage, over $200 million. 2093 01:23:12,833 --> 01:23:15,125 [Henry] It, like, breaks your heart 2094 01:23:15,125 --> 01:23:18,708 to know so many people's lives were affected 2095 01:23:18,708 --> 01:23:21,542 because of our verdict. 2096 01:23:21,542 --> 01:23:24,041 I don't know, you know? 2097 01:23:24,041 --> 01:23:26,750 It's just something you have to live with. 2098 01:23:26,750 --> 01:23:28,375 I mean, we were all stuck here for a while. 2099 01:23:28,375 --> 01:23:30,542 Let's--you know, let's... 2100 01:23:30,542 --> 01:23:31,582 let's try to work it out. 2101 01:23:31,582 --> 01:23:34,207 You got to be, you know... 2102 01:23:34,207 --> 01:23:35,332 try and work it out. 2103 01:23:35,332 --> 01:23:39,708 [Alex] The 1992 riots kind of ended abruptly. 2104 01:23:39,708 --> 01:23:40,332 It's like, as soon as those tanks hit the street, 2105 01:23:40,332 --> 01:23:41,542 it was over, 2106 01:23:41,542 --> 01:23:44,082 just instantaneously. 2107 01:23:44,082 --> 01:23:46,542 [Pat Buchanan] The one way to stop this riot, 2108 01:23:46,542 --> 01:23:47,582 it wasn't with a new model cities program 2109 01:23:47,582 --> 01:23:49,457 announced from Washington. 2110 01:23:49,457 --> 01:23:50,875 It was with superior force, 2111 01:23:50,875 --> 01:23:54,792 dealing with hooligans, criminals, and thugs. 2112 01:23:54,792 --> 01:23:56,542 [news anchor] It was early evening in Watts, 2113 01:23:56,542 --> 01:23:58,917 scores of police, nervous about any unusual activity, 2114 01:23:58,917 --> 01:24:01,625 swarmed in to deal with what they believed 2115 01:24:01,625 --> 01:24:04,125 may be a gang incident. 2116 01:24:04,125 --> 01:24:06,000 And what they stumbled on turned out to be 2117 01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:07,041 600 gang members-- 2118 01:24:07,041 --> 01:24:09,582 Bloods, Crips, a half a dozen others-- 2119 01:24:09,582 --> 01:24:11,750 agreeing to make peace. 2120 01:24:11,750 --> 01:24:13,166 These are cold killers, 2121 01:24:13,166 --> 01:24:14,250 crying and shit, hugging and shit, 2122 01:24:14,250 --> 01:24:18,125 and apologizing, and all of this because we saw 2123 01:24:18,125 --> 01:24:20,582 a bigger cause; we saw a bigger enemy 2124 01:24:20,582 --> 01:24:23,375 that was--that was more vicious and more serious 2125 01:24:23,375 --> 01:24:24,582 about getting rid of us than we was 2126 01:24:24,582 --> 01:24:25,792 about getting rid of each other. 2127 01:24:25,792 --> 01:24:28,457 [Aqeela] We started celebrating outside. 2128 01:24:28,457 --> 01:24:30,082 We had a big party that night, 2129 01:24:30,082 --> 01:24:31,833 folks came from all across the city, 2130 01:24:31,833 --> 01:24:34,417 and we always have these renegade cops 2131 01:24:34,417 --> 01:24:35,792 in the neighborhood, and back then it was this cat 2132 01:24:35,792 --> 01:24:37,000 named Sunshine. 2133 01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:38,917 And Sunshine told us one day, 2134 01:24:38,917 --> 01:24:40,582 like, after we organized the peace treaty, 2135 01:24:40,582 --> 01:24:41,917 we was like, "Sunshine, man, the peace treaty, 2136 01:24:41,917 --> 01:24:43,582 yo, what's up? You down with it?" 2137 01:24:43,582 --> 01:24:45,417 And he was like, "It would be a cold day in hell 2138 01:24:45,417 --> 01:24:47,082 before I ever support the peace treaty." 2139 01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:49,250 He said, "I make $57,000 a year at the base salary." 2140 01:24:49,250 --> 01:24:51,332 He said, "I make another 60 in overtime." 2141 01:24:51,332 --> 01:24:52,542 He said, "I'm putting my daughter through Princeton 2142 01:24:52,542 --> 01:24:53,917 on your ignorance," 2143 01:24:53,917 --> 01:24:56,291 and this is what he told us, literally. 2144 01:24:56,291 --> 01:24:56,792 Thank you very much for the overtime. 2145 01:24:56,792 --> 01:24:59,291 We do appreciate it. 2146 01:24:59,291 --> 01:25:00,875 [Perry] They don't necessarily want 2147 01:25:00,875 --> 01:25:02,667 peace between the Bloods and the Crips. 2148 01:25:02,667 --> 01:25:04,000 How are they going to fill up the jails 2149 01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,207 if everybody's behaving themself? 2150 01:25:06,207 --> 01:25:07,917 [Cle] Those three days were the best three days 2151 01:25:07,917 --> 01:25:10,833 in my fucking life, till this day. 2152 01:25:10,833 --> 01:25:13,375 I've done a lot of shit, you know what I mean? 2153 01:25:13,375 --> 01:25:16,166 But those there days, I'll never forget 'em, 2154 01:25:16,166 --> 01:25:18,667 and I'll cherish those days, because at this time, 2155 01:25:18,667 --> 01:25:23,625 we were so brutalized and we were so uncounted. 2156 01:25:23,625 --> 01:25:25,667 I used to really wonder, like, "Do they even know 2157 01:25:25,667 --> 01:25:27,542 what's going on down here?" 2158 01:25:27,542 --> 01:25:31,250 We finally had this spotlight and their attention on us, 2159 01:25:31,250 --> 01:25:33,041 my little Mayberry, my little South Central; 2160 01:25:33,041 --> 01:25:35,166 now the whole world is checking this out, 2161 01:25:35,166 --> 01:25:37,166 like, "What's going on there?" 2162 01:25:37,166 --> 01:25:38,708 [woman] Is there anything you'd like to say to my family 2163 01:25:38,708 --> 01:25:41,125 who lost a business during the riots? 2164 01:25:41,125 --> 01:25:42,000 Uh, I would say to anyone 2165 01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,667 who lost anything during the riots 2166 01:25:44,667 --> 01:25:47,833 that I'm deeply, uh, deeply grieved by that 2167 01:25:47,833 --> 01:25:51,166 and grieve that the Los Angeles Police Department 2168 01:25:51,166 --> 01:25:55,457 was not able to--to protect everyone. 2169 01:25:55,457 --> 01:25:56,667 We just do not have enough people. 2170 01:25:56,667 --> 01:26:00,625 I hope the people in your community and every community 2171 01:26:00,625 --> 01:26:02,082 will realize that, you know, some misinformation 2172 01:26:02,082 --> 01:26:04,417 about my not sending out the National Guard. 2173 01:26:04,417 --> 01:26:07,708 I sent it out just as quickly as we had the National Guard. 2174 01:26:07,708 --> 01:26:09,417 Well, there were accusations that you delayed 2175 01:26:09,417 --> 01:26:11,417 in bringing the police department into the riots 2176 01:26:11,417 --> 01:26:13,708 because you, um, wanted to show what would happen 2177 01:26:13,708 --> 01:26:16,041 without the police department. 2178 01:26:16,041 --> 01:26:17,207 How do you feel about those accusations? 2179 01:26:17,207 --> 01:26:18,875 If nothing else, I'm a-- 2180 01:26:18,875 --> 01:26:20,708 I'm a consummate professional. 2181 01:26:20,708 --> 01:26:23,542 We'd never do a thing like that, 2182 01:26:23,542 --> 01:26:26,000 and besides, the Rambo in me wouldn't allow that to happen. 2183 01:26:28,792 --> 01:26:31,000 [gunfire] 2184 01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:33,166 [news anchor] Critics have urged police chief Daryl Gates 2185 01:26:33,166 --> 01:26:35,375 to step down early because of the department's performance 2186 01:26:35,375 --> 01:26:37,500 during the riots. 2187 01:26:37,500 --> 01:26:38,457 I am concerned about the department, 2188 01:26:38,457 --> 01:26:41,875 and I think the department is at a point 2189 01:26:41,875 --> 01:26:43,166 where it's taken a lot of hits 2190 01:26:43,166 --> 01:26:48,375 because a lot of anger has been directed at me. 2191 01:26:48,375 --> 01:26:51,375 It's until the 1992 riots that we have a new chief, 2192 01:26:51,375 --> 01:26:55,958 and they decide we have to go out of the city to get a chief. 2193 01:26:55,958 --> 01:26:57,375 They can't even hire a chief within the department 2194 01:26:57,375 --> 01:27:01,582 because they didn't want to another William Parker protégé, 2195 01:27:01,582 --> 01:27:03,291 and that's when they got Willie Williams 2196 01:27:03,291 --> 01:27:05,166 from Philadelphia. 2197 01:27:05,166 --> 01:27:08,417 That just goes to show you how effed up the LAPD was 2198 01:27:08,417 --> 01:27:09,917 internally; 2199 01:27:09,917 --> 01:27:10,708 they couldn't even find a chief from within 2200 01:27:10,708 --> 01:27:13,082 to take over the reins 2201 01:27:13,082 --> 01:27:15,000 during this much tumultuous time. 2202 01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:18,041 ♪ pensive music ♪ 2203 01:27:20,750 --> 01:27:23,082 [Dee] The legacy of the riots. 2204 01:27:23,082 --> 01:27:25,125 When you look at what's happening now 2205 01:27:25,125 --> 01:27:26,082 with the shootings, 2206 01:27:26,082 --> 01:27:29,917 what's going on with police brutality, 2207 01:27:29,917 --> 01:27:33,417 it seems like nothing's changed. 2208 01:27:33,417 --> 01:27:38,082 We're catching it and we're still not getting the justice. 2209 01:27:38,082 --> 01:27:41,375 It's still not that feeling of, "Oh, we got it on camera now; 2210 01:27:41,375 --> 01:27:42,457 we're gonna win this time." 2211 01:27:42,457 --> 01:27:44,792 It's still like, "We have to fight even harder." 2212 01:27:44,792 --> 01:27:46,332 I think you should be proud as a black man, 2213 01:27:46,332 --> 01:27:50,291 because you stood your ground and said this is unjust, 2214 01:27:50,291 --> 01:27:54,375 and if you're going to keep up with the shenanigans, 2215 01:27:54,375 --> 01:27:56,000 well, you're gonna feel it. 2216 01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,958 I took it upon myself to say 2217 01:27:59,958 --> 01:28:03,166 we got to develop a relationship with these police, 2218 01:28:03,166 --> 01:28:04,750 'cause they ain't going nowhere. 2219 01:28:04,750 --> 01:28:06,375 They're in our neighborhood, 2220 01:28:06,375 --> 01:28:11,125 and we got to stop them from beating us down. 2221 01:28:11,125 --> 01:28:14,332 [man] Six motherfucking police out here. 2222 01:28:14,332 --> 01:28:16,000 [news anchor] In an officer involved shooting, 2223 01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,207 the LA Police Commission has just ruled 2224 01:28:19,207 --> 01:28:21,958 that the shooting death of a homeless on skid row 2225 01:28:21,958 --> 01:28:24,000 was justified. 2226 01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:26,000 [Norwood] The system ain't not a goddamn bit different. 2227 01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,166 Thank you, Black Lives Matter, 2228 01:28:28,166 --> 01:28:31,000 for making people stand up on a regular basis, 2229 01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,792 'cause that's actually a path 2230 01:28:32,792 --> 01:28:34,457 to a solution, is you got to stand up 2231 01:28:34,457 --> 01:28:35,375 and you got to keep standing up. 2232 01:28:35,375 --> 01:28:39,166 How many more black people have to die 2233 01:28:39,166 --> 01:28:41,833 till LAPD listens to us? 2234 01:28:41,833 --> 01:28:44,332 [Patrisse] In the last four years, 2235 01:28:44,332 --> 01:28:48,667 we have had some of the most officer involved shootings 2236 01:28:48,667 --> 01:28:50,750 that result to death in Los Angeles. 2237 01:28:50,750 --> 01:28:53,000 Carnell Snell, 2238 01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:53,667 Ezell Ford, 2239 01:28:53,667 --> 01:28:55,667 Renell Jones, 2240 01:28:55,667 --> 01:28:57,000 Wakiesha Wilson... 2241 01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:59,667 - Say her name! - [all] Wakiesha Wilson! 2242 01:28:59,667 --> 01:29:00,625 - Say her name! - [all] Wakiesha Wilson! 2243 01:29:00,625 --> 01:29:03,291 The way that we are identifying our dignity 2244 01:29:03,291 --> 01:29:04,875 is showing up in the streets 2245 01:29:04,875 --> 01:29:06,542 for the people that they keep killing. 2246 01:29:06,542 --> 01:29:09,166 [all] Fire Charlie Beck! Fire Charlie Beck! 2247 01:29:09,166 --> 01:29:11,875 [woman] Y'all just didn't take his life; 2248 01:29:11,875 --> 01:29:15,250 y'all took me and family life. 2249 01:29:15,250 --> 01:29:19,542 So from today, fuck this protesting shit. 2250 01:29:19,542 --> 01:29:20,833 I'ma start taking y'all lives. 2251 01:29:20,833 --> 01:29:23,250 [news anchor] Chief Beck later said, "To target someone 2252 01:29:23,250 --> 01:29:25,750 because of their profession is no better 2253 01:29:25,750 --> 01:29:28,125 than targeting someone because of their race." 2254 01:29:28,125 --> 01:29:31,041 [Ruben] There's the LAPD before 1992 2255 01:29:31,041 --> 01:29:34,207 and there's LAPD after 1992. 2256 01:29:34,207 --> 01:29:38,958 The before was a brutal, racist institution 2257 01:29:38,958 --> 01:29:41,833 that kept poor people and people of color in their place. 2258 01:29:41,833 --> 01:29:46,833 Post-1992, it's still serving some of that function, 2259 01:29:46,833 --> 01:29:50,291 but it's an institution that has more checks and balances. 2260 01:29:50,291 --> 01:29:53,207 The community is now much more organized 2261 01:29:53,207 --> 01:29:54,250 and pushes back a lot harder. 2262 01:29:54,250 --> 01:29:56,375 We never had communication with police, 2263 01:29:56,375 --> 01:29:59,417 and we're trying to start a whole new beginning 2264 01:29:59,417 --> 01:30:02,457 by getting that dialogue and that communication. 2265 01:30:02,457 --> 01:30:06,417 Like the chief said, we were talking to him 2266 01:30:06,417 --> 01:30:09,875 and hearing and listening and trying to find a better way 2267 01:30:09,875 --> 01:30:11,582 to bridge the gap between us and them. 2268 01:30:11,582 --> 01:30:15,291 [news anchor] Chief Charlie Beck says transparency and trust 2269 01:30:15,291 --> 01:30:17,125 are key. 2270 01:30:17,125 --> 01:30:18,291 [Alex] What law enforcement does in Los Angeles 2271 01:30:18,291 --> 01:30:21,667 is use certain words to try to calm-- 2272 01:30:21,667 --> 01:30:24,000 calm the community, calm the city, 2273 01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:25,958 and they know which words work. 2274 01:30:25,958 --> 01:30:27,958 One of the words that works is saying, 2275 01:30:27,958 --> 01:30:29,833 "We're going to be transparent." 2276 01:30:29,833 --> 01:30:32,958 And you start to see other chiefs in other cities 2277 01:30:32,958 --> 01:30:34,667 try to say the right thing, 2278 01:30:34,667 --> 01:30:35,875 and the reason why they're talking this way 2279 01:30:35,875 --> 01:30:38,125 in these press conferences 2280 01:30:38,125 --> 01:30:39,625 and trying to say the right thing 2281 01:30:39,625 --> 01:30:41,582 and claiming transparency 2282 01:30:41,582 --> 01:30:44,958 is because they don't want to see a riot in their city. 2283 01:30:44,958 --> 01:30:46,792 [Sacha] If you were me 2284 01:30:46,792 --> 01:30:48,375 and you were in my body, 2285 01:30:48,375 --> 01:30:52,500 would you be afraid of the police? 2286 01:30:52,500 --> 01:30:54,457 Based on what's going on in the world, 2287 01:30:54,457 --> 01:30:56,457 in America, would you be afraid? 2288 01:30:56,457 --> 01:30:59,000 Would you be nervous to drive in a car with your son? 2289 01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:03,542 Would you be afraid if you had any interaction with the police? 2290 01:31:03,542 --> 01:31:06,250 So I'll tell you a story. 2291 01:31:06,250 --> 01:31:08,125 So for about... 2292 01:31:08,125 --> 01:31:10,582 four or five years of my career, 2293 01:31:10,582 --> 01:31:13,000 I worked surveillance, and I had very long hair 2294 01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,958 in a time when very long hair was not popular, 2295 01:31:15,958 --> 01:31:20,500 and, you know, my job was to, 2296 01:31:20,500 --> 01:31:22,875 um, work criminals 2297 01:31:22,875 --> 01:31:24,500 in tough neighborhoods. 2298 01:31:24,500 --> 01:31:26,708 And I have, literally, because of the way I looked 2299 01:31:26,708 --> 01:31:29,417 and the car I drove and the way I drove, 2300 01:31:29,417 --> 01:31:32,667 I've been stopped hundreds of times, hundreds, 2301 01:31:32,667 --> 01:31:36,041 and there is-- 2302 01:31:36,041 --> 01:31:39,500 there is always tension. 2303 01:31:39,500 --> 01:31:40,875 Always. 2304 01:31:40,875 --> 01:31:43,250 The solution to that 2305 01:31:43,250 --> 01:31:48,082 is empathy on both sides of the glass. 2306 01:31:48,082 --> 01:31:50,417 You know what, think about-- 2307 01:31:50,417 --> 01:31:53,375 think about what the police officer is going through 2308 01:31:53,375 --> 01:31:57,250 as he approaches a car, maybe at night, 2309 01:31:57,250 --> 01:31:59,542 maybe it's dark, maybe he has information 2310 01:31:59,542 --> 01:32:00,792 you don't know about, 2311 01:32:00,792 --> 01:32:04,000 think about what he's going through and try to empathize 2312 01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:06,082 with their situation. 2313 01:32:06,082 --> 01:32:10,125 And what I tell my cops is, 2314 01:32:10,125 --> 01:32:11,375 that--the driver. 2315 01:32:11,375 --> 01:32:14,250 Empathize with his situation. You know? 2316 01:32:14,250 --> 01:32:16,708 Maybe he's never been pulled over before. 2317 01:32:16,708 --> 01:32:18,582 Maybe he just got pulled over yesterday 2318 01:32:18,582 --> 01:32:20,125 by some--by an officer that didn't treat him very well. 2319 01:32:20,125 --> 01:32:22,792 You know? Have some empathy. 2320 01:32:22,792 --> 01:32:23,542 And if there's empathy on both sides 2321 01:32:23,542 --> 01:32:26,082 of that transaction, you know, 2322 01:32:26,082 --> 01:32:28,917 then everybody's going to be fine. 2323 01:32:28,917 --> 01:32:32,917 [Sacha] So you believe if I carry empathy in my heart 2324 01:32:32,917 --> 01:32:34,875 that I'm less susceptible-- 2325 01:32:34,875 --> 01:32:36,792 Well, if you display it, display empathy-- 2326 01:32:36,792 --> 01:32:39,041 in other words, if you understand what the actions 2327 01:32:39,041 --> 01:32:40,375 of the police officer and therefore 2328 01:32:40,375 --> 01:32:43,082 you know, recognize that they are-- 2329 01:32:43,082 --> 01:32:44,417 they may be on edge as they approach, 2330 01:32:44,417 --> 01:32:47,375 that, you know, the initial encounter 2331 01:32:47,375 --> 01:32:51,542 is the most dangerous part of a traffic stop. 2332 01:32:51,542 --> 01:32:54,542 I think that you have to remember those things, you know, 2333 01:32:54,542 --> 01:32:59,792 and if you do those things, then, certainly in Los Angeles, 2334 01:32:59,792 --> 01:33:03,082 you know, we don't see issues that come out of that. 2335 01:33:03,082 --> 01:33:04,667 [Sacha] All right. 2336 01:33:04,667 --> 01:33:06,958 Well, I guess if the empathy is mutual, because... 2337 01:33:06,958 --> 01:33:09,082 - Well, not-- - People allege that they do 2338 01:33:09,082 --> 01:33:10,917 all the right things and police officers 2339 01:33:10,917 --> 01:33:14,250 are still sort of on edge. 2340 01:33:14,250 --> 01:33:18,041 So I guess you just gotta hope that humankind can prevail 2341 01:33:18,041 --> 01:33:22,582 over scared police officers and scared people in cars. 2342 01:33:22,582 --> 01:33:24,582 Well, and I agree with that. 2343 01:33:24,582 --> 01:33:27,000 And that's why I think this is, you know, from my point of view, 2344 01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:28,375 this is one of the most, you know, everybody talks about 2345 01:33:28,375 --> 01:33:31,667 the conversation, you know? And-- 2346 01:33:31,667 --> 01:33:33,125 [Sacha] As in the conversation. 2347 01:33:33,125 --> 01:33:34,582 As in "the" conversation. 2348 01:33:34,582 --> 01:33:36,082 [Sacha] Which is what? 2349 01:33:36,082 --> 01:33:38,875 Which is the conversation between parents 2350 01:33:38,875 --> 01:33:41,250 and particularly their teenage and adult sons 2351 01:33:41,250 --> 01:33:43,750 about how to act when you get stopped by the police. 2352 01:33:43,750 --> 01:33:46,750 When you're driving down the street and you see those lights 2353 01:33:46,750 --> 01:33:47,750 in your rearview mirror, 2354 01:33:47,750 --> 01:33:50,250 about the last thing you're thinking about 2355 01:33:50,250 --> 01:33:52,917 is whether or not the police officer that's getting ready 2356 01:33:52,917 --> 01:33:54,708 to stop you is having a bad day. 2357 01:33:54,708 --> 01:33:56,750 Or if you do think about that, 2358 01:33:56,750 --> 01:33:58,207 you say, "Oh, my God. 2359 01:33:58,207 --> 01:33:59,375 I hope he's not having a bad day. 2360 01:33:59,375 --> 01:34:00,207 Otherwise I might get shot." 2361 01:34:00,207 --> 01:34:03,582 It really is sad, you know? 2362 01:34:03,582 --> 01:34:07,708 I was always happy I didn't have a son 2363 01:34:07,708 --> 01:34:11,958 for the gang aspect of living 2364 01:34:11,958 --> 01:34:13,917 and just from, you know, what it takes 2365 01:34:13,917 --> 01:34:15,750 to become a young black man in this world. 2366 01:34:15,750 --> 01:34:19,417 I was just happy that I didn't have to deal with those issues. 2367 01:34:19,417 --> 01:34:21,207 You know? 2368 01:34:21,207 --> 01:34:23,250 We've had leaders within the community 2369 01:34:23,250 --> 01:34:27,082 who are gang leaders who have tried to make positive change. 2370 01:34:27,082 --> 01:34:31,041 But it takes all of us. 2371 01:34:31,041 --> 01:34:35,500 We can't continue to let this devil manipulate us 2372 01:34:35,500 --> 01:34:36,457 to kill each other. 2373 01:34:36,457 --> 01:34:38,958 It's crazy. 2374 01:34:38,958 --> 01:34:40,833 I still have problems 2375 01:34:40,833 --> 01:34:43,375 losing my children to gangs. 2376 01:34:43,375 --> 01:34:45,207 I still went through that. 2377 01:34:45,207 --> 01:34:48,625 - [Sacha] You, yourself? - Yes. 2378 01:34:48,625 --> 01:34:52,417 My grandson was just murdered last year. 2379 01:34:52,417 --> 01:34:52,457 It's-- 2380 01:34:54,958 --> 01:34:57,625 [exhales sharply] Mm. 2381 01:35:00,291 --> 01:35:02,582 You know, it happens in our communities, 2382 01:35:02,582 --> 01:35:05,958 and it's heartbreaking. 2383 01:35:05,958 --> 01:35:07,792 And I'm one of the aware ones 2384 01:35:07,792 --> 01:35:09,417 that raised my children 2385 01:35:09,417 --> 01:35:11,166 to understand and to read 2386 01:35:11,166 --> 01:35:15,041 and get an education. 2387 01:35:15,041 --> 01:35:18,750 And I still... 2388 01:35:18,750 --> 01:35:19,667 I still lost my grandson. 2389 01:35:22,708 --> 01:35:23,833 I was--I was angry. I was angry. 2390 01:35:23,833 --> 01:35:27,000 I used to tell my mom, 2391 01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:28,667 you know, if I make it to 18, 2392 01:35:28,667 --> 01:35:30,125 I'm gonna suicide bomb a police station. 2393 01:35:30,125 --> 01:35:34,000 I hated, hated, hated the police. 2394 01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:35,125 He was pretty radical. 2395 01:35:35,125 --> 01:35:36,792 - Yeah. - It was very-- 2396 01:35:36,792 --> 01:35:39,750 it was scary for me to listen to him talk. 2397 01:35:39,750 --> 01:35:41,125 And I have to say this, 2398 01:35:41,125 --> 01:35:43,667 I'm happy that we can have this conversation all here together, 2399 01:35:43,667 --> 01:35:46,750 our entire family, because he used to tell me, 2400 01:35:46,750 --> 01:35:48,625 "I'll be lucky if I see 21." 2401 01:35:48,625 --> 01:35:51,041 Let me tell you something about my son real quick. 2402 01:35:51,041 --> 01:35:52,500 Nicholas! 2403 01:35:52,500 --> 01:35:54,332 Come here real quick. 2404 01:35:54,332 --> 01:35:57,875 Come here. Hurry up. Hurry up. 2405 01:35:57,875 --> 01:35:59,708 Come right here. 2406 01:35:59,708 --> 01:36:03,291 This is--this is something that us as people of color 2407 01:36:03,291 --> 01:36:05,792 should never have to go through. 2408 01:36:05,792 --> 01:36:08,833 Take this hat off. Take the hat off. 2409 01:36:08,833 --> 01:36:10,833 Sit down. 2410 01:36:10,833 --> 01:36:11,917 Tell this gentleman 2411 01:36:11,917 --> 01:36:15,457 what I taught you about when we get pulled over 2412 01:36:15,457 --> 01:36:16,457 by the police. 2413 01:36:16,457 --> 01:36:18,000 What should you do? 2414 01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:20,582 Um, put your hands up on the dashboard 2415 01:36:20,582 --> 01:36:23,708 so the police don't think you have any weapons 2416 01:36:23,708 --> 01:36:25,667 or to show your hands. 2417 01:36:25,667 --> 01:36:28,250 - And how old are you? - 12. 2418 01:36:28,250 --> 01:36:30,250 I got to tell a 12-year-old 2419 01:36:30,250 --> 01:36:32,542 how to conduct himself 2420 01:36:32,542 --> 01:36:34,291 when he interface with law enforcement 2421 01:36:34,291 --> 01:36:36,332 because I'm scared 2422 01:36:36,332 --> 01:36:38,750 that if he acts silly and does something with his hands, 2423 01:36:38,750 --> 01:36:41,332 they will kill him. 2424 01:36:41,332 --> 01:36:43,457 They've already killed Tamir Rice, 2425 01:36:43,457 --> 01:36:45,417 who was 12 years old. 2426 01:36:45,417 --> 01:36:46,417 So I got to teach him how to conduct himself, 2427 01:36:46,417 --> 01:36:49,125 where to put his hands, how to behave, 2428 01:36:49,125 --> 01:36:50,542 where to position them, 2429 01:36:50,542 --> 01:36:52,082 so that we can make it where? 2430 01:36:52,082 --> 01:36:54,082 After the end of the day, where we going? 2431 01:36:54,082 --> 01:36:56,166 - Home? - Home. 2432 01:36:56,166 --> 01:36:57,166 Thank you. 2433 01:36:59,250 --> 01:37:03,082 [Morse code beeping] 2434 01:37:07,500 --> 01:37:09,542 [sustained tone] 2435 01:37:12,125 --> 01:37:15,958 ♪ blues rock music ♪ 2436 01:37:15,958 --> 01:37:21,000 ♪♪ 2437 01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:26,375 ♪ Well, Martin's dream ♪ 2438 01:37:26,375 --> 01:37:28,457 ♪ Has become blind ♪ 2439 01:37:28,457 --> 01:37:34,375 ♪ And worse, a nightmare ♪ 2440 01:37:34,375 --> 01:37:36,457 ♪ Can't walk the streets ♪ 2441 01:37:36,457 --> 01:37:41,667 ♪ To them we are fair game ♪ 2442 01:37:41,667 --> 01:37:44,792 ♪ Our lives don't mean a thing ♪ 2443 01:37:44,792 --> 01:37:49,792 ♪ Like a king, like a king, like a king ♪ 2444 01:37:49,792 --> 01:37:55,291 ♪ Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King ♪ 2445 01:37:55,291 --> 01:38:00,625 ♪ Like a king, like a king, like a king ♪ 2446 01:38:00,625 --> 01:38:04,792 ♪ How I wish you could help us, Dr. King ♪ 2447 01:38:06,500 --> 01:38:08,833 ♪ Make sure it's filmed ♪ 2448 01:38:08,833 --> 01:38:13,667 ♪ Shown on national TV ♪ 2449 01:38:13,667 --> 01:38:16,375 ♪ They'll have no mercy ♪ 2450 01:38:16,375 --> 01:38:18,708 ♪ A legal lynch mob ♪ 2451 01:38:18,708 --> 01:38:24,457 ♪ Like they strung up from the trees ♪ 2452 01:38:24,457 --> 01:38:27,457 ♪ The LAPD ♪ 2453 01:38:27,457 --> 01:38:31,667 ♪ Like a king, like a king, like a king ♪ 2454 01:38:31,667 --> 01:38:36,750 ♪ Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King ♪