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Sound of the Police

- Push him down on the ground!

[yelling] - Push him down on the ground!

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[yelling]
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- Push him down on the ground!
Duration
6 seconds
Views
38
Timestamp in Movie
00:43:11
Uploaded
Mar 14, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime
Production
Firelight Films,ABC News Studios

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The fraught relationship between African Americans and the police, often rife with tension, fear, suspicion and hostility on all sides, that fuels the ongoing conflict between African American communities and law enforcement.
REPORTER: It began with police and rioters - Sound of the Police 00:05
REPORTER: It began with police and rioters
STEPHEN: The Watts Riot demonstrated that you have - Sound of the Police 00:07
STEPHEN: The Watts Riot demonstrated that you have
REPORTER: More than 1,500 people were in the streets, - Sound of the Police 00:06
REPORTER: More than 1,500 people were in the streets,
STEPHEN: And feels that they don't have a say - Sound of the Police 00:08
STEPHEN: And feels that they don't have a say
- It's getting tired of being pushed around - Sound of the Police 00:05
- It's getting tired of being pushed around
Just stopping us on the street, kicking in the doors, - Sound of the Police 00:07
Just stopping us on the street, kicking in the doors,
- In almost every race riot in the 60s, - Sound of the Police 00:19
- In almost every race riot in the 60s,
- You see uprising after uprising after uprising. - Sound of the Police 00:05
- You see uprising after uprising after uprising.
There is unchecked police violence - Sound of the Police 00:10
There is unchecked police violence
[dramatic music playing] - Sound of the Police 00:09
[dramatic music playing]
ELIZABETH: The term "Red Summer" - Sound of the Police 00:12
ELIZABETH: The term "Red Summer"
[disquieting music] - Sound of the Police 00:31
[disquieting music]
FATH: Often, the police are aiding the mob, - Sound of the Police 00:15
FATH: Often, the police are aiding the mob,
- Black people began to embrace the politics of self-defense - Sound of the Police 00:07
- Black people began to embrace the politics of self-defense
You now have a whole new group of Black people - Sound of the Police 00:12
You now have a whole new group of Black people
- It was the fighting back that elicited - Sound of the Police 00:19
- It was the fighting back that elicited
- Police in these riots in Red Summer, - Sound of the Police 00:20
- Police in these riots in Red Summer,
- Deputization of white men by law enforcement officials - Sound of the Police 00:16
- Deputization of white men by law enforcement officials
FATH: When this is all done, - Sound of the Police 00:15
FATH: When this is all done,
That was just one moment on a historical continuum - Sound of the Police 00:10
That was just one moment on a historical continuum