The Chicago Project

I believe that riots were still present because of racial inequality. After the people were digging themselves out of it, economic inequality was present. Examples of riots would be like in New Jersey there was a population of 1/3 black. One night a fight broke out in a diner. Those black youth who were involved damaged store windows and threw rocks at police cars on there way home, from that day on rioting continued and kept building more tension. Several hundred people gathered at a local park and the police told them to go home because the meeting was unlawful. Then the riots started again. The police were caught completely off guard. Later in the evening a white officers chased the black youth in the ghetto. He shot and wounded the black youth. The officer tried to leave for help and a mob beaten him and killed him with his own gun. Still that same night weapons were stolen from a factory. Police tried a truce to get the guns back. They were frightened on the fact of gun and weapon being supplied through the town. Not one gun was given back, so they called the National Guard to search through houses. Residents felt that their own constitutional rights were despoiled. Later the search was called off. Several weeks later the National Guard still searched for guns. This example proves the fear the white and police had on the African community. They did what they could do to get themselves out of the ghetto or at least tired to prove a point. This was the reason for riots still present.