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The '''Watts riots''', sometimes referred to as the '''Watts Rebellion''' or '''Watts Uprising''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/watts-rebellion-los-angeles|title=Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles) {{!}} The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute|website=kinginstitute.stanford.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-22|date=June 12, 2017}}</ref> took place in the [[Watts, Los Angeles|Watts]] neighborhood and its surrounding areas of [[Los Angeles]] from August 11 to 16, 1965.

On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old [[African-American]] man, was pulled over for [[drunken driving]].<ref name="traffic2">{{Cite news|author=Queally|first=James|date=2015-07-29|title=Watts Riots: Traffic stop was the spark that ignited days of destruction in L.A.|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-watts-riots-explainer-20150715-htmlstory.html|access-date=May 31, 2020}}</ref><ref name="tribunedigital-orlandosentinel">{{Cite news|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-08-05/news/9008031131_1_frye-riots-in-american-rights-leaders/2|title=How Legacy Of The Watts Riot Consumed, Ruined Man's Life|work=Orlando Sentinel|access-date=2018-03-02|language=en|archive-date=July 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724062907/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-08-05/news/9008031131_1_frye-riots-in-american-rights-leaders/2|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="articles.latimes.com">Dawsey, Darrell (August 19, 1990). [http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-19/local/me-2790_1_chp-officer "To CHP Officer Who Sparked Riots, It Was Just Another Arrest"]. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> After he failed a field sobriety test, officers attempted to arrest him. Marquette resisted arrest, with assistance from his mother, Rena Frye; a physical confrontation ensued in which Marquette was struck in the face with a baton. Meanwhile, a crowd of onlookers had gathered.<ref name="traffic2" /> Rumors spread that the police had kicked a pregnant woman who was present at the scene. Six days of civil unrest followed, motivated in part by allegations of police abuse.<ref name="tribunedigital-orlandosentinel" /> Nearly 14,000 members of the [[California Army National Guard]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-06-12|title=Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles)|url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/watts-rebellion-los-angeles|access-date=2020-06-06|website=The Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute|language=en}}</ref> helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths,<ref name="Hinton2">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATS6CwAAQBAJ&q=Turn+left+or+get+shot&pg=PA69|title=From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America|last1=Hinton|first1=Elizabeth|date=2016|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674737235|pages=68–72}}</ref> as well as over $40 million in property damage.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Joshua |first1=Bloom |last2=Martin |first2=Waldo |title=Black Against Empire: The History And Politics Of The Black Panther Party| title-link = Black Against Empire |date=2016 |publisher=University of California Press |page=30}}</ref><ref name="Szymanski">{{cite news|last=Szymanski|first=Michael|title=How Legacy of the Watts Riot Consumed, Ruined Man's Life|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=August 5, 1990|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-08-05/news/9008031131_1_frye-riots-in-american-rights-leaders|access-date=22 June 2013|archive-date=December 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206012123/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-08-05/news/9008031131_1_frye-riots-in-american-rights-leaders|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was the city's worst unrest until the [[Rodney King riots]] of 1992.