Has there ever been a riot in fairfax or a near riot in fairfax. I was reading about Oakland and their fears of rioting today and I was wondering if there had ever been a incident like this in our area.

don't have direct knowledge, but there was a summer of civil unrest on the south side of Herndon in the 70's. State Police maintained a visible presense to augment the Andy and Barney sized HPD of the day. Anybody have more complete info?

These days we need to watch out for the silver haired WASPs coming out of FFX Contry Club armed with their nine irons and hell bent for Pennsylvania Ave.

The only riot I can imagine, would be one started by hispanics. I'm not even sure that we have enough of a black population, for there to be a serious burning down of our neighborhoods. We have enough liberals around here though, but I don't see many Berkeley leftist whackos in Ffx.

Btw, people who riot in the U.S. are really at the bottom of the idiot pile. All they ever do is harm their own neighborhoods, and ruin hard working peoples shops. Rioters should be shot.

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Anar Wrote:
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> Has there ever been a riot in fairfax or a near
> riot in fairfax. I was reading about Oakland and
> their fears of rioting today and I was wondering
> if there had ever been a incident like this in our
> area.


LULZ hard to compare Oakland with the mean streets of Fairfax, VA

There used to be, or it is still there, the Commonwealth Women's Clinic on Broad Street in Falls Church. It was an abortion clinic and there used to be some good demos down there. Nothing violent, but you could not have paid for the entertainment.

Lollapalooza (sorry for the spelling) was held 1 or 2 years art Lake Fairfax. I am sure that was a near riot or worse.

hadenuff Wrote:
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> don't have direct knowledge, but there was a
> summer of civil unrest on the south side of
> Herndon in the 70's. State Police maintained a
> visible presense to augment the Andy and Barney
> sized HPD of the day. Anybody have more complete
> info?

I would call what happened in Herndon in the 70's a riot because the Dulles shopping center was looted and burned. There were also many cars burned, beatings and fire bombings.

In the Virginia Room at the City of Fairfax Regional Library there used to be a file on local riots.

There were clippings of the Herndon disturbances.

I also saw a few articles about disturbances at W.T. Woodson between greasers and collegiates and blacks and whites.

1992 Wrote:
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> April 26, 1992


+1

Good tune.

What consitutes a riot? One guy throwing a bottle, certain number of people walking and making noise, turning over a car, fire bombing a house. What?

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The riot in Herndon was centered around Dulles Park Shopping Center. It started with a white Fairfax cop killing an unarmed black guy after a struggle. I plan to write more about it soon on my blog:

ourredneckpast.blogspot.com

Radiophile Wrote:
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> Lollapalooza (sorry for the spelling) was held 1
> or 2 years art Lake Fairfax. I am sure that was a
> near riot or worse.


u spelled 'Lollapalooza' correctly...unfortunately u mispelled 'at' idiot!

Do you want to START a riot?

How bout a Zoot Suit Riot?

If there were, it would start like this...


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