<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Reuschlein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, May 3, 2015 at 4:22 PM<br>Subject: Baltimore Riot the New Watts<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Link to send or tweet to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/baltimore-riot-the-new-watts/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/baltimore-riot-the-new-watts/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Baltimore</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Riot the New Watts </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">By Robert
Reuschlein</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Watts</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Riots Fifty Years Ago</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The fourth paragraph on the Watts riot of <a href="tel:1965" value="+661965" target="_blank">1965</a> wiki recalls
events after <a href="tel:1951" value="+661951" target="_blank">1951</a> when the Los Angeles
police force adapted a structure like the military. Unfortunately, while this is said to have
made them more professional, they also began to be more racially biased in
their tactics. The wiki cites a drunk
driving arrest of a black man by white police where a nearby mother and brother
of the black man got involved in the initial scuffle, then the community poured
in. Another account I read suggested
that the riots broke out after an unusually hot period longer than a week, the
day the weather cooled off was the start of the riots, thus a precursor to the
riots may have been the breaking open of fire hydrants to cool people off with
the water. So racism, militarism, and
weather may all have played a role in events.
Nevertheless, it is striking that that this first big race riot of the
sixties occurs one 54 year cycle ago but for a four year difference. The Rodney King riots of <a href="tel:1992" value="+661992" target="_blank">1992</a> also hit Los Angeles one half cycle
later. The cycle changes from warming
trend with poor economic growth to cooling trend with strong economic growth
every 27 years. So those riots were
right on time for the half cycle repetition every 27 years. Unfortunately racial housing restrictions
forced blacks into either the Watts area slum or the Compton area for middle class blacks. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Ferguson</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Riots</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The
much more extensive damage of the Baltimore
riots represents a significant escalation of the scattered fires of the Ferguson unrest. And Ferguson
may have had agents provocateurs used in a much more militarized response by
authorities in that situation. At least
one video shows police officers leaving a car they were gathered around that
suddenly burst into flames a few seconds later in front of a building that was
later torched without any video evidence.
New York had a major peaceful outburst
between the Ferguson and Baltimore situations. New York had
the lowest military economy of the three cities, with Saint
Louis the highest of the three followed close behind by Baltimore. In Saint
Louis the prosecutor protected the racist murdering
policeman citing one angry white woman supported the policeman’s standard lies
and ignored the extremely credible black businesswoman’s account of the scene
on the Rachel Maddow show. Hannity just
a couple nights ago restated the big lie that there was no evidence the black
victim’s hands were raised in surrender. Then the Michael Brown companion’s account
disputes the allegation that Darren Wilson’s gun was ever reached for, cites the
initial vulgarity used by the officer and the reckless disregard of the officer
backing his car into the two black men, forcing them to jump aside to avoid
being hit. This interview was by Chris
Hayes, host of the MSNBC show just before Rachel Maddow’s. Then pro prosecutor Nancy Grace of CNN is
clearly outraged by the obvious lies of the officer in his interview with
George Stephanopoulos. This is where an
immediate police report requirement could have prevented Darren Wilson from
coming up with his carefully crafted false story. Policemen do this all the time in my
experience with them, come up with stories and framing that works to convict
people. The difference between the South Carolina officer accused of murder thanks to
videotape evidence and Darren Wilson in Ferguson
is that the lying and assistance in the cover up by other officers is exposed
by videotape evidence. With out video
tape evidence Michael Brown was not only murdered holding his hands up in
surrender, but prosecutor McCulloch assisted the criminal officer by letting
him testify first to the grand jury. Just
in, I googled this: “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">A woman who swore she saw teenager <b>Michael Brown </b>pummel
Ferguson <b>Officer Darren Wilson</b> and charge him “like a football
player,” was lying about being at the scene of the controversial police
shooting, St. Louis County Prosecutor <b>Robert McCulloch</b> said
Friday in a radio interview. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dec 19, 2014”</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Baltimore</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> Riots</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Clearly the Baltimore riots
are more severe than those in Ferguson, making
them more comparable to Watts. The differences are many, but the clearest
difference is the prosecutor, who has hopefully put a stop in rioting with the
intent to prosecute six officers. In
Kondratiev Wave time, this is <a href="tel:1961" value="+661961" target="_blank">1961</a>, 54 years ago from 2015. The civil rights struggle was well under way
by then seven year after the <a href="tel:1954" value="+661954" target="_blank">1954</a> Brown desegregation court case and the 14
month <a href="tel:1956" value="+661956" target="_blank">1956</a> Montgomery
bus boycott of five years before <a href="tel:1961" value="+661961" target="_blank">1961</a>. The
riots were still to come four years later in Watts
or seven years later after the murder of King in <a href="tel:1968" value="+661968" target="_blank">1968</a>. Selma
and “I have a dream” were in <a href="tel:1963" value="+661963" target="_blank">1963</a>. Today,
the civil rights struggle and the riots have come together in this 2014 to 2015
period. Thanks to the marijuana
decriminalization movement, Rand Paul, and the new Hillary Clinton speech, the
prison industrial complex is coming under serious bipartisan challenge. As Jimmy Carter points out, there are six
times as many black men in prison today as when he was president 35 years ago,
often referred to as the “New Jim Crow” thanks to the book by Michelle
Alexander. Nixon’s Southern Strategy has
transformed the nature of the Republican Party from the Party of Lincoln to the
Party of Jefferson Davis. The deepening
penetration of empire into our political system has led to a movement away from
policing to “protect and serve” to a strict “enforcement” policing model. These invidious trends are evident even here
in Madison, Wisconsin where I live and work and most
police are quite humane and the military spending is low. The problem as I see it is to find a non
lethal non tazing way to stop people without shooting them. Tranquilizer darts are used with wild zoo
animals. Body cameras and back ups
should also reduce the use of lethal methods against unarmed people. But the gun is the first resort in too many
situations, and human indifference is too often justified in police
culture. Multiple shots may overprotect
the officer but ensure death of the suspect. The attitude is that’s what these
criminals deserve anyway. Can’t we invent some kind of stun gun? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Militarism, Crime, and Blacks are covered in
these papers:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4862977/CRIME_and_the_Military" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/4862977/CRIME_and_the_Military</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">This list of cycle events includes riots and
other civic events in one section:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4101856/EVENTS_Weather_Economy_War_List56" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/4101856/EVENTS_Weather_Economy_War_List56</a></span></p>
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