Bluming the soaps - Quayle TV HEADLINES were grabbed last week when US Vice-President Dan Quayle blamed the immorality of the poor for this month's nots in Los Angeles and other major cities.
But the real aftermath of the US riots is the wave of repression 13,500 people arrested during the riots, and the hundreds who face deportation as "ilegal immigrants.
Quayle made an illot of himself by putting the blame for inner-chy nots on single mothers and ilegtimate childron.
Bizarrely, he attacked the fictional TV character Murphy Brown, played by Candice Bergon, for having an ilegitimate baby. Which led everyone to ask whether anti-abortion Quayle would avocate a fictional abortion instead.
But the joke is not so funny for those facing long terms of imprisonment. De tails of the police repression during and In the aftermath of the riots are still emerging.
300 Club Apart from rioters, hundreds were arrested in Los Angeles and San Francisco simply for demonstrating against the Rodhey King court verdict.
Open pens
In one San Francisco demonstration all 600 demonstrators were picked up. Hundreds were held for several days with little food and water in open pens.
Details of this repression appear in an article is US Marxist Socialist Action by student Jerry Caldwell, arrested with his mother near a demonstration. He We were driven to a big warehouse on the waterfront. I couk see hundreds of people who were already there enclosed in pens made cut of police barThere were about 150 people in each. As we arrived we cheered and they cheered back...Then they threw us in a hokling tank with only a cement floor, one bench and an exposed toilet. About 25 of us were packed on top of each other ike sardines.
1 was lucky. My mothers boyinend out at 4am, by which time had slept only 15 minutes.
'In 27 hours custody 1 recoved just an orange and a sandwich. Much of the time during the night i was freezing cold. We were kicky to get cut early. Many people stayed there for days.' Towards the end of the riots the Los Angeles police department started mass raids on apartment blocks occupied by Mexican-Americans. Hundrods now face deportation as illegals.
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