You are listening to another no fair remembering stuff, the Tuesday edition of the Professional Left Podcast,

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And it's not safe for work.

And it's not to be a bit of adventure for us because this is not an event about which we are well versed.

We'll also discuss the much more subjective matter of how we come to know what we know and how we come to believe what we believe.

Here's how the Watts riots facts were explained in a CBS news documentary made in 1965,

and please be aware that the word Negro was considered at the time the appropriate name for a black person.

It began as many race riots have begun with the arrest of a Negro by white officers.

In this case, two young Negroes were stopped by California Highway Patrolman and charged with drunk driving. There was

a scuffle and a crowd gathered. The mother of the two, their brothers, joined in, and she

and another woman the crowd thought was pregnant were pushed and shoved.

Over and over, Negroes repeat the charge of police brutality.

One who had pressed a number of brutality complaints,

and one of the most successful attorneys in Los Angeles,

is a Negro Leo Branton.

We asked him about the police claim that brutality charges are fully and fairly investigated. Well, in theory, there are avenues of complaint open.

But there are no meaningful avenues to redress the grievances of these people.

I've tried them all, and I can say to you that there is no question

but that under the present machinery as it exists, and as it is being operated today, a complaint

of police brutality by any Negro citizen goes almost completely unheated. And as we dive into this

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