i was a hearing office for the los angeles police commission. i was down in the police building when i saw all of the police in the agitated state. i realized there was something really serious going on. so during that time, i organized a defense fund for some of the people who were arrested. and i was involved in a number of things, but after it was over the governor, governor brown, appointed a commission to investigate the causes of the 1965 watts riots. and i was hired as an attorney for that commission. while working for that commission, a number of the attorneys there, we did our own analysis separate from what the report said. and we decided what we needed is more young people in office. it happened that the assembly person in the district where i lived retired, and he had someone he had selected who was his administrative assistant to take his position. but all of us decided and they decided someone needed to run, and they decided it was me. i ran, and it was a very interesting race because just the real power in california and he was su