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"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" is originally a phrase of Miami police chief Walter Headley.

Headley refused to return from vacation when violent protests broke out at the RNC in 1968. "They know what to do...Wen the looting starts, the shooting starts."
It's in his NYT obit. The protesters in that instance were black too, SNCC, SCLC, CORE, and others. Ralph Abernathy there. What were they protesting? systemic racial inequality

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
a good WaPo story on 68 liberty city also.
washingtonpost.com/news/retropoli…
Headley is also an OG of stop and frisk btw. Because time is a flat circle
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