[cripplecreek]

Detroit's riot started when in the wee hours of Sunday morning police raided a "blind pig" -- an after-hours drinking place.

In my opinion it was a case of over-policing touching off a fire looking for a place to burn. They could have shut the place down without arrests or simply let it go for the night and deal with it in the morning. The rioting likely wouldn't have started that night.

HOWEVER, the rioting was coming and it was coming soon. The ingredients were all there. The black militant types were there in Detroit, including some at the party. William Ayers and his band of marry marxists were 30 miles away in Ann Arbor.

And then there was George Romney and his desire to find solutions acceptable to democrats. Bringing in Saul Alinsky was a disaster that has lasted ever since.

[NorthMountain]

In my opinion it was a case of over-policing touching off a fire looking for a place to burn.

Maybe you don't realize it, but that's a damning indictment of the culture surrounding the (illegal) saloon. "Say 'no' to us and we'll riot." That's a sick culture.

William Ayers and his band of marry marxists were 30 miles away in Ann Arbor.

That's the other key ingredient, and the one ignored by most commentators on the topic. The '60s race riots were ALL engineered, fomented, and driven by professional out of town agitators. They were most certainly not 'spontaneous'.