It was a six day riot in Watts, California. Watts was a very underdevelopment African American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles, where the citizens had poor houses, high unemployment rates and inadequate schools. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye was arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white Highway Patrolman, for supposedly being under the influence while driving. The bystanders were so enraged that a riot broke out, and it spread even outside of Watts. It took six days for 14,000 California National Guard troops to calm it down. In total, 34 people died, more than 1,000 people were injured and about 4,000 people were arrested.