The Rage of Hunters Point.

It almost feels like the riots of 1966 that broke out in San Francisco's Hunters Point, a black neighborhood, when a white police officer shot and killed a seventeen-year-old African American teen, Matthew Johnson, Jr., as he fled the scene of a stolen car. Arthur Hippler wrote a book called Hunters Point: A Black Ghetto in which, among other things, he attempts to debunk the police account of the riot (which was published as a pamphlet called 128 Hours). This account closely follows his:

 For two hours after the shooting, a large, angry crowd milled about the site along Navy Road. The police, meanwhile, were hurrying the blacks on the city's Human Rights Commission over to the scene.
A meeting was held between these middle-class blacks and some angry young men at the nearby Economic Opportunity Center. The rioters pressed their demands that the cop is charged with murder, a key demand that was incomprehensible to the assembled authorities. The police switched to the head of Youth for Service, a sputtering group of ex-gang members, but he made no impression on the young men, who were for the most part outside any gang structure.

By the time Mayor Shelley promised a crowd at 3rd near the Bayview Community Center that Patrolman Johnson had been suspended, it was too late. The lone black supervisor, Terry Francois, known as an NAACP and civil rights defense lawyer, was jeered and pelted with rocks when he appeared.

That night saw sporadic looting, rock-throwing, and petty arson. "Community leaders" tried to calm the situation the next day, but the cops issued an ultimatum: calm by noon Wednesday or massive force would be introduced. The leaders, mostly part of the middle-aged matriarchy and/or their ministerial allies, had nothing to offer the rioters, and their pleas for calm went unheeded. 

Fast forward today, gentrification has now become a simple race confrontation, as the community has every reason to assume the police are trying to kill them, and the whites that are moving in are trying to push them out. The police can no longer distinguish friend from foe except on racial terms. The long-suppressed anger over the abysmal status imposed on black Americans has been uncontainable, but even still, the gentrification has, for the most part, created a hidden prejudice.

Some feel that whites moving in is changing the community for the greater good. In actuality, the opposite has occurred: greater community disintegration resulted. The general belief that "nobody cares" and "it's too late to do anything" has become widespread. Some came to see the apparent signs of gentrification as another case of white society and double-dealing.