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To: Fiji Hill

A tragic sidenote to The Olympics.One of the group was killed by police for looting a store during the 1965 Watts riot!
This according to the seminal book of the riot,Rivers of Blood,Years of Darkness by Robert Conot.


160 posted on 04/07/2006 11:59:14 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Riverman94610
,i>A tragic sidenote to The Olympics.One of the group was killed by police for looting a store during the 1965 Watts riot!

I don't believe Charles Fizer, the member in question, belonged to the group at the time of the riot. I read that he was shot when he drove his mother's 1956 Buick through a police barricade.

162 posted on 04/07/2006 1:13:03 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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