In response, the cops began to utilize the tear gas cans. Before the police retreated, they destroyed everything inside the bar. The second night had much more anger and fighting, the police returned, but this time a lot of people joined the rioters. One of the groups that joined the LGBTQ+ was the Black Panthers, a civil rights party that was created in October 1966. The police targeted prior injuries from the night, causing many unconscious people to lie on the ground and blood everywhere. no reported deaths. It dragged on for 6 long nights. Some people described it as a 6-day war of hell. The first night 6 people got arrested, the second night 3 or 4, and the third night was 5.
Stonewall Riots continued
Rioters throwing anything they could find at the cops. website from whose streets, our streets.
"In the civil rights movement, we ran from the police, in the peace movemnet, we ran from the police. That night, the police ran from us, the lowliest of the low. And it was fantasic."
~ John O'Brien, participant in the Stonewall riots, recalling the scene on June 28, 1969
Cops hittting the rioters. webstite from wstp.
"There were more people out there when I came out that when I wennt in. Things were still flying through the air, caacophony- I mean just screaming and yelling, sirens, strobe lights, the whole spaghetti."
~ Dave Van Ronk, upon emerging from the Stonewall Inn following its siege.