After bloodshed in earlier US riots, Washington police showed restraint in 1968 unres

[The Patriot]

After bloodshed in earlier US riots, Washington police showed restraint in 1968 unrest

03-26-2018 08:18 AM

Six weeks after rioting destroyed huge swaths of Washington in 1968, one of the city's supervisors in Congress, an unrepentant segregationist named John McMillan, convened a committee hearing to grill public safety officials about their handling of the crisis. "Johnny Mac," as folks called him, was upset that police and military troops, in his view, had been meek and ineffective in combating the mayhem.


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