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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?

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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?

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