On "see, riots get the goods": The "Long Hot Summer" riots of 1967 and the Detroit and other MLK assassination riots of 1968...
On “see, riots get the goods”:
The “Long Hot Summer” riots of 1967 and the Detroit and other MLK assassination riots of 1968 were key to bringing about a world where black Americans enjoyed not only free access to, but substantially hegemony over urban cores
Were those the goods?
The 1992 Los Angeles “Rodney King” riots helped bring about a world where police are not commonly equipped with blunt melee weapons, which had become a go-to tool for exercising control. Police were still commonly equipped with handguns and the dynamics which created a demand for control were unchanged.
Were those the goods?