SWAT vs. the Black Panthers in the LA Times Magazine

A little self-promotion here. I have a piece in this month’s LA Times Magazine about the previously untold tale of a 5-hour, 5,000 round shootout between the Black Panthers and SWAT. The fight was the death of organized American radicalism and the birth of the paramilitary American police force–SWAT’s very first operation.

A taste:

It was two hours before sunrise on that Monday morning, and dogs were barking all over the neighborhood—up the alley off Central, in business parking lots, in back and front yards.

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