Back in those days you drove to someplace you knew so that if anything happened with police, you'd have some witnesses. That's what Marquette must have done. |
People were really upset with how (the police) treated his mother and sister. All you could hear was, 'How could they do her like that?' People were really upset over how the officers treated the women. But that was how the police was, how the white boys do it, as a matter of business, like routine activity. They mistreated and abused everyone they stopped back then in Watts. |
There was a lot of people in the street talking about what they had seen and there was definitely some anger and frustration with the police because people were just sick of being abused. |