On Showtime: Outstanding documentary about the history of the LAPD and the African-American community in south LA.
It chronicles the move by blacks from the south in the 40's and the rise of racist police chief William Parker (the police central headquarters is the still-named Parker Center in LA) from approx. 1950 until he died of a heart attack a year after the Watts riots.
It does not flinch from the overt and brutal racism leading up to the Watts riots.
Who takes over after Parker dies?
The guy that used to be his driver; racist Darryl Gates.
Again, it does not flinch from the overt and brutal racism that never stops- Rodney King and the resultant riots.
It is soberingly and profoundly sad that not much has been learned.
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~Anya~
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