Comments on: Today in D.C. History: Rioting Spreads Following MLK’s Assassination http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/04/05/today-in-d-c-history-rioting-spreads-following-mlks-assassination/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Thu, 23 May 2013 01:40:04 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: nivin http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/04/05/today-in-d-c-history-rioting-spreads-following-mlks-assassination/comment-page-1/#comment-1066868 nivin Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:35:45 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=71689#comment-1066868 Whatever Stokley said, nobody followed his lead. 10 people died during the riot, 10 died in fires. 2 were shot by the police, both east of the river-- one on Good hope Road in front of the Woolworth's and the second on Pennsylvania Avenue, SE nnear Minnesota Avenue, in front of the Mortons.(when was the last time you heard those 2 names?) Whatever Stokley said, nobody followed his lead. 10 people died during the riot, 10 died in fires. 2 were shot by the police, both east of the river-- one on Good hope Road in front of the Woolworth's and the second on Pennsylvania Avenue, SE nnear Minnesota Avenue, in front of the Mortons.(when was the last time you heard those 2 names?)

]]> By: Popular Uprisings Are Good http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/04/05/today-in-d-c-history-rioting-spreads-following-mlks-assassination/comment-page-1/#comment-1066864 Popular Uprisings Are Good Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:42:02 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=71689#comment-1066864 @briefly: the deaths during the riots were largely accidental--rioters were sometimes trapped in buildings and died as a consequence. the portrayal of the rage of a people confronted with naked racism and economic deprivation and the fresh cut of the assassination of MLK as hooliganism is absolutely fucked up of you. the riots wouldn't have happened if conditions hadn't been as they were. as for killing, historically, most deaths during race riots of the 60s were attributed to police/armed forces opening fire indiscriminately on crowds of protesters. when people in egypt rose up and started burning buildings throughout cairo, sometimes with the kind of anger that negates deliberate care and strategy, did you call them all a bunch of savages? it's unfortunate, but stories of the riots are almost entirely relayed to us through witnesses, rather than through the stories of people who themselves were in the streets that day. @briefly: the deaths during the riots were largely accidental--rioters were sometimes trapped in buildings and died as a consequence. the portrayal of the rage of a people confronted with naked racism and economic deprivation and the fresh cut of the assassination of MLK as hooliganism is absolutely fucked up of you. the riots wouldn't have happened if conditions hadn't been as they were. as for killing, historically, most deaths during race riots of the 60s were attributed to police/armed forces opening fire indiscriminately on crowds of protesters.

when people in egypt rose up and started burning buildings throughout cairo, sometimes with the kind of anger that negates deliberate care and strategy, did you call them all a bunch of savages?

it's unfortunate, but stories of the riots are almost entirely relayed to us through witnesses, rather than through the stories of people who themselves were in the streets that day.

]]> By: briefly http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2011/04/05/today-in-d-c-history-rioting-spreads-following-mlks-assassination/comment-page-1/#comment-1066849 briefly Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:03:15 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=71689#comment-1066849 And civic activism in DC is still much the same: killing, stealing, looting. And civic activism in DC is still much the same: killing, stealing, looting.

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