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Police shakedown during Watts Riot

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Cicero, Dave

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Police shakedown African Americans after stopping their car at Florence Avenue and Hoover Street. The suspects were taken to the police station when suits of all different sizes were found in the truck of their car. Photo dated: August 10, 1965.
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Keywords

  1. California
  2. Fires
  3. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  4. Los Angeles
  5. Police
  6. Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  7. Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965

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