tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791121048379334773.post3736898667980417578..comments2023-07-26T06:23:09.738-07:00Comments on Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: London BurningUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791121048379334773.post-33218066111418972972011-08-08T19:07:26.896-07:002011-08-08T19:07:26.896-07:00This is from a friend, Joe Costello, recalling Los...This is from a friend, Joe Costello, recalling Los Angeles, 1992, when people took to the streets following the "not guilty" verdicts against police officers accused of beating the unarmed motorist Rodney King:<br /><br />"I was in Los Angeles in '92 when some folks decided to burn a bit of the town. I will always remember the second night, driving down Sunset, it was right before dark and a night curfew had been imposed. Sunset was completely and ethereally empty. There used to be a vacant lot around the Rainbow Bar where you could look South and East across the whole city. It was an amazing view, the whole place seemed a fire, giant plumes of black smoke sprouting like morbid flowers. As I raced to a friends in Hollywood, I still remember trying to figure out whether I was more concerned about the burning and looting or pissed-off being put under a curfew. Many of my friend's neighbors got a lot of shopping done that night.<br /><br />"These are always acts of pure frustration, they help nothing. The politics of democracy are difficult and long. Choose life"<br /><br />~ Ms J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com