In the year of 1965 in the city of Watts the horrid event of the Watt’s Riot unleashed itself form August 11th to 17th were there were a serious of outbreaks of looting and property damage which then caused authoritative figures, such as policemen, to come into the scene to reunify the city. At least that is what the general public would tend to believe. Reporter of Times writes in his journal and explains other wise, “..reporters struggled to comprehend a threat to their city from the sort of racial conflict that until then had largely been limited to America’s southern and northeastern states” (Smith). In cases like this authority is meant to resemble a force that protects and oversees for the benefit of others yet, authority here became
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Some of these individuals are holding picket signs that state in bold letters, “GET OUT”, another picket sign visually screams “Haunt Another Community”. On the door of the closed book store there is a sign that legible says to those in the community, “NO Cops or Police Stoggers Allowed in the Bookstore”. Instead of committing crimes to get their message out they are doing the complete opposite by resorting to a peaceful protest where instead of asking for help they are rejecting it and driving it away from their …show more content…
The people on the floor were protestors and by the looks of it it seems as the police officers are going over board in how they are treating these so called “delinquents”. The actions of the police officer all the way in the back guide the viewer to see how cold and harsh these targeted civilians were truly being treated at the time. Finally, the last photograph Members of Sons of Watts (1965) is a true demonstration of how these civilians took action and started to uprise and challenge authority. They ask to get rid of them with their peaceful protesting because they all know that they are better off being alone than protected by the enemy. Their actions here demonstrate how much they despised police officials at the time, how badly they wanted to drive them out of their community. The police acted more along the line of oppressors than
Some of these individuals are holding picket signs that state in bold letters, “GET OUT”, another picket sign visually screams “Haunt Another Community”. On the door of the closed book store there is a sign that legible says to those in the community, “NO Cops or Police Stoggers Allowed in the Bookstore”. Instead of committing crimes to get their message out they are doing the complete opposite by resorting to a peaceful protest where instead of asking for help they are rejecting it and driving it away from their …show more content…
The people on the floor were protestors and by the looks of it it seems as the police officers are going over board in how they are treating these so called “delinquents”. The actions of the police officer all the way in the back guide the viewer to see how cold and harsh these targeted civilians were truly being treated at the time. Finally, the last photograph Members of Sons of Watts (1965) is a true demonstration of how these civilians took action and started to uprise and challenge authority. They ask to get rid of them with their peaceful protesting because they all know that they are better off being alone than protected by the enemy. Their actions here demonstrate how much they despised police officials at the time, how badly they wanted to drive them out of their community. The police acted more along the line of oppressors than