alt.war.vietnam

"i2p6 west" wrote in message
news:13dbusgcinev3b9@ ...
>
> August 29, 1970:
> 25,000 Mexican-Americans stage the Chicano Moratorium, the largest
> antiwar demonstration held in Los Angeles. Police attack them, not
> just with clubs but with guns, killing three, including popular
> television news director and Los Angeles Times reporter Ruben Salazar.
>
> ..the MORAL OUTRAGE grows...

Angered by Police actions, many in the crownd returned to whittier boulevard
and began breaking the windows of white-owned businesses, sparing only those
stores they believed were owned by Mexicans and other minorities. Two hours
later, at around 6pm, with 1500 officers occupying Laguna Park and the
nearby streets, the violence came to an end.

The melee resulted in 158 damaged buildings and 4 that were completely
destroyed. Some four hundred people were arrested, an uncertain number hurt,
and three killed. Angel Gilberto Diaz died when he tried to leave the area
and rammed his car into a telephone pole. Lyn Ward, a fifteen year old
brown beret, received fatal wounds from an explosion that hurled him through
a plate glass window. Witnesses testified that a tear gas canister exploded
in front of Ward, but police claimed that a bomb planted by demonstrators
killed him. Ruben Salazar was killed by a tear gas projectile which hit him
in the head as he sat in the Silver Dollar Cafe on Whittier Boulevard, where
he had gone to escape the commotions



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Nigel Brooks