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Mindseye -
I don't know the name of the riots, but whichever riot it was, my description only involves what happened to my friend's father and why the police were told to stand their ground and take the abuse of the rioters and not defend themselves.
Here was the context, homosexuals were angry (doesn't take much if this thread is any indicator 
) so they held a riot. During that riot my friend's father was hit in the upper arm by a brick causing massive bleeding. He explained that because of SF politics and the homosexual lobby, the cops were told to stand there and not suppress the rioters.
Yeah, it was the cops fault they were ordered to stand there and take the abuse. You don't even know which riot I'm talking about (nor do I wrt a name) but you're going to provide everyone with "context"?
I was Moscone's paperboy.
It was the twinkies. Isn't that what we've come to expect thanks to liberals and their "it's society's fault" BS?
Where do yo get this stuff? Yeah, the cops were elated. 
Sorry, but the riot I'm talking about occured when I was still in high school, 75-77.
I was living there at the time of both riots.
Because this was a gay riot in the Castro district. And I suspect the reason some cops weren't all too happy with Moscone was that he may have been mayor at the time of this riot when the cops were told to stand there and take the abuse.
Not my friend's father, and he was a seargent at the time and one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. You're obviously confusing the riot over Moscone's death with the one I'm talking about. And telling me you only recall one riot when you just said you didn't even move there until 4 years after the fact doesn't speak well for your knowledge on this matter.
Your friend's father was present at the White Night Riots? If that is what you are referring to, your post is a grotesque misrepresentation of the facts. What a surprise.
I can very well understand why you think the context doesn’t matter, it's not very flattering to your friend's father, and pretty much takes the wind out of your cramped, paranoid sails.
) so they held a riot. During that riot my friend's father was hit in the upper arm by a brick causing massive bleeding. He explained that because of SF politics and the homosexual lobby, the cops were told to stand there and not suppress the rioters.
Allow me to provide a little context for our forum-mates who may not know about one of the darkest episodes in the history of the SF police force, a force at that time notorious for it's "cowboy" antics and violent tactics.
In 1978 Dan White, a conservative San Francisco city councilman, entered the SF City Hall and shot to death Mayor George Moscone and gay city councilman Harvey Milk, who he felt were responsible for frustrating his conservative political ambitions.
White was a former SF cop, and was openly supported by the SF police force, some of whom even wore t-shirts supporting White while he was in jail awaiting trial.
The DA pathetically bungled the case, and to the utter astonishment of San Franciscans, White was found guilty only of manslaughter, despite the fact that he hard carefully planned his attack, breaking into City Hall through a basement window to avoid metal detectors, packing spare ammo, and carefully re-loading between assassinations. For a double murder, he got off with a hand-slap sentence of less than 8 years (after about four, he was paroled).
The DA pathetically bungled the case, and to the utter astonishment of San Franciscans, White was found guilty only of manslaughter, despite the fact that he hard carefully planned his attack, breaking into City Hall through a basement window to avoid metal detectors, packing spare ammo, and carefully re-loading between assassinations. For a double murder, he got off with a hand-slap sentence of less than 8 years (after about four, he was paroled).
The police were jubilant. "Danny-boy" beat the rap. Later, after being released from prison, White admitted to the detective who had arrested him that it was, in fact, premeditated murder, and that he had planned to kill two more liberal city officials (one was a woman).
On the day the stunning verdict was announced, the city reacted in a spasm of outrage. A large crowd of gay people spontaneously gathered in the Castro, the center of SF's gay community. They began marching down Market Street, toward downtown and City Hall. As the crowd moved it gathered in size. By the time it reached City Hall, it was no longer a crowd of gays, it was a mob of thousands of citizens.
This all happened about four years before I moved to SF, so I did not personally witness it, although I met people who were in the Castro when the police attacked.
Berzerker, I'm really curious how your friend's father knew that a gay man had thrown the brick.
I assume that this is where your friend's father was struck, as the police certainly were not "standing there" when they attacked the Castro. As for the police "not being allowed to defend themselves" and being asked to "accept wounds", these were organized riot cops in full gear with shields.
Sorry, another anti-gay screed.
, but not me 
you're so dirty!
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