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New Documentary on Late Sixties Civil Unrest is a ā€˜Rosetta Stoneā€™ for Decoding the Modern Day Police State #RiotsvilleUSA #Riotsville #Documentary
unicornriot.ninja/2022/new-documā€¦ Military police with bayone...
Sierra Pettengillā€™s new documentary ā€œ#Riotsville, USAā€ still invokes striking parallels between the late 1960s and the George Floyd protest uprisings in 2020. In 1967, the U.S. Army built a makeshift town on a military base. unicornriot.ninja/2022/new-documā€¦
A mock urban center sporting fake liquor stores, pawn shops, and turned-over cars, it was made to simulate a real ā€œghettoā€ and the riots that raged in city streets that summer. It was created to train officers in responding to civilian uprisings. They named it ā€œ#Riotsville.ā€
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