. >> john macky, you were here in 1965? >> no, i was not. >> i asked that because he was here, a kid, very young, but if you were here as well. i didn't know when you came because i wanted to get a sense of what we see in retrospect about what happened when it happened in 65 and when it burned 25 years ago. >> i'll give you my take. in the first incident, there was an immediate police response. a brutal police response. now fastforward to the ryons that took place after rodney king, and there wasn't any lapd response. that was of the main thing that bothered me. and the tensions in the community were always there. i grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. i went to school at 68th and g figaroa. i knew the people there, the tension that existed not just between the black and asian community, but between the lapd and the black community. >> speaking of tension. i worked for tom bradley, and the tension could not have been more ieheightened. >> absolutely. >> and his legacy, it was really awful. you think about it today, and