[WaterBoard]

Detroit died in July 1967 during the black riots, it just taken the rest of the US this long to notice. It never recovered.

Just a few hours later, widespread looting and gunfire began, and hundreds of policemen faced off with a mob of thousands. Michigan Gov. George Romney called in the Michigan National Guard to put down the riot, but they could do little to stop it. President Lyndon Johnson sent in 4,700 paratroopers during the second day of rioting.

The violence would not be contained until July 27. “After five days of anarchy,” writes PBS, “more than 40 people are dead, hundreds are injured, and damage estimates hit $50 million.

[oldvike]

Savages.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Looks a lot like a diversity riot. Since the Dembulbs were running the city into the ground it’s not surprising to read how corrupt the city was at that time which had a mix of racism and police brutality that Black people there didn’t care for to the point of fighting back en mass.
http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm

[DTogo]

Mere child’s play to what’s coming. It will end when the Obamulan hordes attempt to riot & pillage in fly-over country.

[sinanju]

Do tell. Here in D.C. it took about a quarter-century before developers were willing to come back in force to build on those “parking lots” and knock down the old boarded-up houses and businesses and start to “gentrify” the NorthEast neighborhoods. I remember downtown D.C. in the seventies and eighties, that was one slow process. But hey? Who is going to invest millions building in a neighborhood when it can all be wiped away in a few “days of rage”?

What is Southeast L.A. looking like these days, I wonder? Rodney King and Reginald Denny were much more recent.