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  1. May 21, '79, brought the White Night #Riots in #SanFrancisco. #DanWhite (a former #cop) killed 2 people but his "#Twinkie defense" got him only 7 1/2 years #jail. Tension between #police & #gays was already high; the ex-cop getting such a soft #sentence set off the riots (police were openly wearing "Free Dan White" T-shirts). Biggest gay #protest in US since #Stonewall. Police retaliated a few hours later, raided a gay bar in #RiotGear, beat the crowd badly; several sued.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ni

  2. May 21, '79, brought the White Night #Riots in #SanFrancisco. #DanWhite (a former #cop) killed 2 people but his "#Twinkie defense" got him only 7 1/2 years #jail. Tension between #police & #gays was already high; the ex-cop getting such a soft #sentence set off the riots (police were openly wearing "Free Dan White" T-shirts). Biggest gay #protest in US since #Stonewall. Police retaliated a few hours later, raided a gay bar in #RiotGear, beat the crowd badly; several sued.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ni

  3. May 21, '79, brought the White Night #Riots in #SanFrancisco. #DanWhite (a former #cop) killed 2 people but his "#Twinkie defense" got him only 7 1/2 years #jail. Tension between #police & #gays was already high; the ex-cop getting such a soft #sentence set off the riots (police were openly wearing "Free Dan White" T-shirts). Biggest gay #protest in US since #Stonewall. Police retaliated a few hours later, raided a gay bar in #RiotGear, beat the crowd badly; several sued.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ni

  4. May 21, '79, brought the White Night #Riots in #SanFrancisco. #DanWhite (a former #cop) killed 2 people but his "#Twinkie defense" got him only 7 1/2 years #jail. Tension between #police & #gays was already high; the ex-cop getting such a soft #sentence set off the riots (police were openly wearing "Free Dan White" T-shirts). Biggest gay #protest in US since #Stonewall. Police retaliated a few hours later, raided a gay bar in #RiotGear, beat the crowd badly; several sued.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ni

  5. May 21, '79, brought the White Night #Riots in #SanFrancisco. #DanWhite (a former #cop) killed 2 people but his "#Twinkie defense" got him only 7 1/2 years #jail. Tension between #police & #gays was already high; the ex-cop getting such a soft #sentence set off the riots (police were openly wearing "Free Dan White" T-shirts). Biggest gay #protest in US since #Stonewall. Police retaliated a few hours later, raided a gay bar in #RiotGear, beat the crowd badly; several sued.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Ni

  6. Excerpt from the above mentioned LATimes article:

    “In the last seconds of his life, #GeorgeMoscone poured a drink for his killer & prepared to give him a pep talk. There’s life after politics, he began telling #DanWhite. You have a family to worry about. It will all work out.

    “The mayor had no way of knowing that the man standing before him carried a loaded Smith & Wesson .38 under his suit coat.

    #DianneFeinstein
    latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-19

  7. It was the morning of Nov 27, 1978, & #DianneFeinstein, a future powerhouse of the US #Senate, had decided she was done w/ #politics. After 9yrs on the #SanFrancisco Board of Supervisors, 2 failed bids for mayor & the recent death of her husband from colon cancer, she wanted out.
    
Hours later, gunshots rang out in City Hall. A fmr supervisor, #DanWhite, had fatally shot Mayor #GeorgeMoscone & Supervisor #HarveyMilk, one of the first openly #gay elected officials in the #UnitedStates.

  8. @godpod listened to your #godcast this morning without realising you had 100k #disciples so well done you.

    #jesus needs to join #mastodon and stop fucking around with #elonmusk and his devil's #journalists.
    #JoinIn #DanWhite