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of officers. When the police ordered that they disband the crowd suddenly turned violent.

"And scenes of previous riots in L.A. and even Watts seemed small in comparison to the lives that now would be lost. The crowd had finally had enough and they shouted: "NO MORE." No one knows who struck the first blow or even where it landed. All I know is that after that, little of Chicago stood. Cars were overturned, buildings set ablaze, and the National Guard was called in and that is how it should have ended.

"But in the hours that the battle raged the crowd knew no fear and they fought for the freedom they have always deserved. And they were not willing to negotiate, and they killed, and they were killed. But as all the blood ran red-the camera's took their shots and it was America who bled. For the riot that waged in Chicago, well, it found its way out of doors. It slithered into the largest cities and in each one it seemed to grow.

"This war that America witnessed was never declared. But this war that America witnessed has always been there. In every city looted, in every riot called, and in every cry of injustice-you, yourself, were involved. And on the day that war must answer for all the years of oppression there will be no second chance-no desperate search for answers.

"The day that I have witnessed-that was the end of us all. The day the ground did bleed was the day that we did fall."

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