Sam Yorty asked DJ Magnificent Montague to stop using the slogan "Burn, Baby, Burn" after it became associated with this event, which began when California Highway Patrol officers arrested Marquette Frye for drunk driving.
Essays written in response to this event include "The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy" by Situationist leader Guy Debord, as well as a New York Times op-ed by Thomas Pynchon called "A Journey into the Mind of" the location where this event took place. An indirect cause of this event was the passage of Proposition 14, which repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act. An official report on this event was headed by former CIA Director John A. McCone, and identified a "spiral of failure" that was tied to (*) unemployment and lack of education. The phrase "Thin Blue Line" was coined by William H. Parker, the chief of police who called participants in this event "monkeys in the zoo." Sam Yorty asked DJ Magnificent Montague to stop using the slogan "Burn, Baby, Burn" after it became associated with this event, which began when California Highway Patrol officers arrested Marquette Frye for drunk driving. For 10 points, name these 1965 race riots in Los Angeles.
Essays written in response to this event include "The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy" by Situationist leader Guy Debord, as well as a New York Times op-ed by Thomas Pynchon called "A Journey into the Mind of" the location where this event took place.
Watts riots [accept  Los Angeles Riots of 1965 until end of question; prompt thereafter]