Three black men from South Los Angeles who lived through the Watts or Rodney King riots have each thought seriously about how policing in Los Angeles should change — and each has arrived at a different answer.
Demonstrators push against a police car in the Watts district of Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 1965. The Watts riots raged for most of a week. When the smoke cleared, 34 people were dead, more than 1,000 were injured and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.Demonstrators push against a police car in the Watts district of Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 1965. The Watts riots raged for most of a week.
The problem, he says, is that his community has been fighting back against an issue that never seems to change: police violence against black people. And at least for Patton, the solution to that problem is clear: He advocates taking all guns away from the police. "It was mayhem. It was crazy. It was like world war or something going on," Gilbert Johnson remembers.
"It was a pretty good moment, as far as if you look at it from that standpoint, because we were all poor," he says."You know, we used to get free food, stand in lines to get food, recycle cans to get food, food stamps." "I've talked to hundreds and hundreds of people across South LA, and they do not want more law enforcement," he says.
Los Angeles City Council member Marqueece Harris-Dawson is a native of South Los Angeles. He says he wants to see the police focus on fewer things.Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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