Things were also pretty dark in D.C. after Martin Luther King was assassinated in April 1968.
I watched from the Virginia side of the Potomac as D.C. neighborhoods burned & stores were looted. A pall of smoke hung over the city.
Did I mention that Washington D.C. was & is majority black? The Federal District there has become a virtual fortress since the late sixties’.
Escape from New York becomes Escape from DC. . .same type of lawlessness and brutality.