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On this 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots, many in the Los Angeles area are reflecting on the six-day uprising and what has changed in the decades since. Author and civil rights activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson remembers vividly the chaos that ensued over the six days of violence that was triggered by a traffic stop on a black driver by a white CHP officer on August 11th, 1965. He believes tensions in the African-American community at the time weren’t just against the police, but over the issues of joblessness and poverty in Watts and some surrounding areas. The Watts Riots of 1965 ended with 34 people dying, many at the hands of law enforcement.
(source-MetroNetworks/Mike Watts)
