Probably one of the top events over the past fifty years in the US, and should have been made into a movie. Cops from all over the city would converge on the block area, half of them were noted there just as observing the mess....the other half firing away into the mess. At the end....no one knows much of nothing....a whole section of the city is burned away. Thousands stand there in shock at the collapse of authority and leadership. And you have these nutcases that the media suddenly wakes up and says....well, yeah, they were a bit crazy.
It ought to be a movie.
Could not remember that crisis - had to look it up here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4651126