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The Sky Falls on Compton
Davis, Mike | September 19, 1994 issue

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The comparison with Haiti strikes a strange chord, Compton being the only American city ever invaded and occupied by the Marines. Thus few people outside the "Hub City" understand that this was the first time that the black poor looted and burned the property of the black bourgeoisie on any large scale. Then on July 29 of this year, a local television station broadcast an amateur videotape of a slightly built Latino teenager being batoned and stomped by a furious African-American Compton cop. The FBI's two-year investigation of City Hall is expected to yield indictments of other locally prominent politicians and developers.

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NATIONAL security; TELEVISION broadcasting; CITY halls; HAITI; COMPTON (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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