The Riot Report | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the | dG1fM2xoazFYVWgyQVU

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00:00We've got 1.30.

00:06Your attention please, there will be a curfew starting at 11 o'clock.

00:14You had Newark, you had Detroit, you had cities all across the country up in flames.

00:21You see, the real problem with violence is that we have never been violent.

00:26We have been too non-violent.

00:30Since Newark and Detroit, law and order have become obsessions on Capitol Hill.

00:35I think America must see riots do not develop out of thin air.

00:40This was a national crisis.

00:42Johnson's being faced with the pressure to do something.

00:44Creating a presidential commission was for Johnson the best option.

00:48I want you to be vice chairman.

00:50I don't want you thinking about it, I just want you to say yes sir.

00:52Yes sir.

00:53The president said to me, I want you to remember you're a Johnson man.

00:56If you forget it, I'll cut your blank off.

00:59He did not say blank.

01:02The Kerner Commission do an extraordinary field investigation.

01:07We sent our teams to 23 cities.

01:09There were mountains of material that we had to go through.

01:12It was an eye-opener.

01:13It really put faces on these problems.

01:16They suggested all sorts of measures to promote police-community relations, a massive structural transformation.

01:25A form of guaranteed annual income, two million new jobs in government and private business.

01:33Every time you appoint one of these committees, you get more than you can do anything about.

01:37It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.

01:51There is this problem, let's not sweep it under the rug.

01:55This is the first time you've had the government saying, these problems are systemic.

01:59And it has remained this vitally important document that has retained its relevance.

02:05Johnson said, find the truth and express it in your report.

02:08That's what we did.

02:10That's what we did.