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If not decades of grievance of people angry about poverty, unemployment, poor housing, poor education. remember riots, uprisings back in 1965 in watts, the watts section of los angeles. same thing. police stop. discrimination. so on and so forth. this continues. and the rodney king situation and the riots, rebellion of '92 were a stop on a continuum. you could argue we talk about things like ferguson, michael brown case and baltimore, cleveland, other places, some of the dynamics are still the same down to present day. >> ron, thank you very much. a pleasure to have you still here. >> i was a ...

A police traffic stop of an african-american by white officers sparked racial tensions and violence in the streets of an american city. a headline straight out of the papers today but in this case it was 50 years ago when the watts section of los angeles erupted into flames. nbc's tom brokaw covered that event and revisits the community a half century later. >> 50 years ago what started as a routine traffic stop turned into this. the watts section of los angeles became a war zone. i joined nbc news in los angeles shortly after the watts uprising and this quickly became my beat. i spent days, w...