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.
But some of the parents donât care,â Darlene Dorsey, a Baltimore resident, told Newsweek. The violent riots reminded Council President Jack Young of the 1968 riots, which âwere taking place during the assassination of Martin Luther King, where people were destroying their own properties in their community.â