A CITY IN CRISIS: HOPE AND PRAYER AMID THE ASHES : Brown Says Poverty Will Spark More Riots Across U.S.
Democratic presidential candidate Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. predicted Sunday that other American cities will suffer the type of rioting that shook Los Angeles last week unless the federal government makes a major investment in the nation’s urban centers.
“I’m telling you that what happened in Los Angeles is going to happen again because you can’t cage people up, deprive them of jobs, treat them like second-class citizens and expect to escape the consequences,” Brown said.
The former California governor’s remarks came as he resumed campaigning for Tuesday’s Indiana primary. He had canceled earlier plans and returned to Los Angeles in the wake of riots that followed the not guilty verdicts in the beating trial of Rodney G. King.
In Indianapolis, Brown spoke in a downtrodden neighborhood just a few blocks from where the late Robert F. Kennedy made an impassioned plea for peace and better race relations on the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
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