“In the middle of May an L.A. cop stopped a black man named Leonard Deadwyler for speeding through Watts. He stuck his gun in the driver's-side window — 'to attrack the driver's attention,' he later testified. He also claimed the car suddenly lurched forward, causing his gun to discharge. Leonard Deadwyler slumped into the lap of his wife and muttered his last words — 'But she's having a baby' — as his two-year-old son looked on from the backseat. He had been speeding her to the nearest hospital, miles away; there was no hospital in Watts — an area twice the size of Manhattan.” Civil RightsPolice BrutalityWatts RebellionWatts RiotsWattsLeonard Deadwyler Book:Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Source: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America