Word: rioting
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Once a staple scene in Warner Brothers B films, the prison riot has become an ugly constant of American life. As time passes, the revolts of angry convicts get better organized, more political and harder to bring under control. Last week, at the turreted Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, 1,200 of the 2,250 inmates, most of them blacks, seized control of one cell block and parts of two others. They grabbed more than 30 guards as hostages, then locked the gates shut against a gathering force of more than 1,000 heavily armed police, state troopers...
...importance of a dinnertime incident one evening last week in which two prisoners hurled glass shards at a guard; the offenders were thrown into solitary confinement and, they claimed, beaten. Next morning after breakfast, one group of inmates refused to line up for a work detail, and the riot was on. In a short time, windows in nearly every cell block were smashed, bedding and furniture were set afire, and three buildings were burned out. Guards were quickly captured. Some of the hostages were beaten, and the rebels eventually released those needing medical attention. Guard William Quinn, 28, who apparently...
...ethnic festivals, theater presentations and art shows. "We didn't have much money," says Phil Jourdan, an aide to the mayor of Detroit, "but we got the best out of the least expenditure." Soledad Brother George Jackson was killed during the sixth anniversary of Los Angeles' Watts riot. In the past, such an incident might have sparked an explosion, but Watts stayed quiet; that weekend, many of its residents were attending a festival of parades, games and displays...
...next time there's a riot, well, you best stay out of sight...
...produced, written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, who also stars as Sweetback, the outraged and outrageous hero. The scion of a Los Angeles whorehouse, Sweetback graduates to an obvious profession: pimping. He "goes bad" while watching two white policemen cudgel a black youth wrongly accused of inciting riot. Sweetback reacts by mashing the cops' skulls with their own handcuffs. He then sets off on a ghetto version of the traditional Wild West chase. He fights and fornicates, leaving behind a trail of bodies in various stages of disrepair. When cornered by two cops, Sweetback responds with...