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...Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley deplored the King verdict at the Wednesday- night church rally when he angrily declared, "We have come tonight to say we have had enough!" But the following night, a subdued Bradley appealed for order on a broadcast of the Arsenio Hall Show and issued a warning: "Don't break the law, or we will put you in jail." But most Los Angeles viewers knew that was a promise the mayor could not keep...
CAPTION: Which makes you angrier, the verdict or the violence that followed...
Were the events in L.A. a genuine reaction to the verdict, or were people taking advantage of the situation...
...nation's leaders, of both races, could find such plain but heartfelt words. Then perhaps the quiet that will return after the fires and the fury burn themselves out -- whenever that is -- could cover healing. Which would make it very unlike the totally deceptive quiet that preceded the King verdict...
After the King verdict, many blacks said bitterly they had always thought the cops would be turned loose. Lester Barry, the black emcee of the "Comedy 'n the Hood" show at the Guild Theatre in Inglewood, had even been saying in his act that "those guys are going to get off." But the shock and rage after the verdict belied those statements. This time, many blacks apparently hoped, it would be different. After all, this was not merely the word of a black with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard...