The L.A. Riots | 7. Into Ashes
Slow Burn
The Cork Did Blow, and That's the Subtext of His Leadership
Hector tobar witnessed some of that, seeing people with mattresses on top of their cars that they had looted from some mattress store. The police, an intrusive presence in the poorer parts of elay, were conspicuous by their absence. By may, thousands of national guardsmen had stepped in to provide much needed reinforcements to the l p d. City that had risen up against this police department was now effectively a police state.
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