CSPAN Washington Journal Marc Stein July 14, 2024
Routine matter. Some of the patrons were allowed to exit and some were detained. It was common for the police to detain bar owners, managers, bartenders, people of color,eople who transgressed gender that lingo of the day, transvestites or street greens, and people who talked a bad or fought back. Some people were detained inside the bar. Others began exiting the bar, but on that night and by this time it was the Early Morning hours of june 28, patrons began gathering on the streets outside. And as the police tried to bring those they had detained into police wagons, the crowd began to erupt. ...