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New Documentary on Late Sixties Civil Unrest is a āRosetta Stoneā for Decoding the Modern Day Police State #RiotsvilleUSA #Riotsville #Documentary
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Sierra Pettengillās new documentary ā#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 āghettoā 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#Riotsville.ā
