Put simply, hydraulic fracturing is the use of fluid and material to create or restore small fractures in a formation in order to stimulate production from new and existing oil and gas wells.
The riots began on August 11, 1965, in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, when Lee Minikus, a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer, pulled over Marquette Frye, who Minikus believed was intoxicated because of his observed erratic driving.
The August 1965 Watts Riots (or Watts Rebellion, depending on oneâs perspective and politics), were among the bloodiest, costliest and â in the five decades since they erupted â most analyzed uprisings of the notoriously unsettled mid-1960s.