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Chapter Five: The Watts Riots

Sixth installment of 'The Razzmatazz'

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The Watts riots lasted six days, Aug. 11-16, 1965.

By Todd Snider

remember 8/11/1965

lost angels, USA

marquette frye is arrested for driving drunk close enough to his own home

for his mother rena frye to scold him from the sidewalk.

For reasons still unknown, a lost angel police officer kicked rena frye in the stomach

and ignited a spontaneous uprising against an oppressive system that would last six days

and leave the crawling ivy of righteous chaos clinging, climbing and growing everywhere.

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