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The L.A. Riots | 3. The Chief

Slow Burn

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The City Charter Puts the Mayor in a Tough Spot

Gates said casual drug users ought to be taken out and shot. He once suggested that black people were more vulnerable to death from choke holds than what he called normal people. The city charter put the mayor in a tough spot. As a black liberal in a city with a predominantly white voter base, bradley was vulnerable to the perception that he was soft on crime. That stereotype had in the 19 69 mayors race, which he lost to incumbent sam yordy.

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