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The verdicts seemed incomprehensible to a city that had seen the videotape of black motorist Rodney King's beating by police countless times.
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Oh, absolutely!!
I remember the day vividly, it was about 3 p.m., and we heard on the news that the officers had been found Not Guilty; I said right then and there that the city was about to go BOOM.
The 1965 Watts riots should have given a clue; I guess the passage of 26 years made everyone forget. Well, where I grew up, I could see the flames from my porch, and the National Guard going up and down my street in their Jeeps with those enormous guns mounted to the roll cages...and I will never, ever forget it...
