What will happen to property prices in LA now?

Schizoid Man wrote:
What will happen to property prices in LA now?

They'll go up.... burning of slums and blighted areas in riots (if
there are any, which I doubt) is natures way of urban renewal.

ScottW

ScottW wrote:
Schizoid Man wrote:

What will happen to property prices in LA now?

They'll go up.... burning of slums and blighted areas in riots (if
there are any, which I doubt) is natures way of urban renewal.

What do you doubt? The existence of blighted areas? Or that there's
going to be urban renewal of the blighted areas?

I sincerely hope so in the case of the latter. Violence on behalf of a
cold-blooded killer would be moronic to say the least.

Schizoid Man wrote:
ScottW wrote:
Schizoid Man wrote:

What will happen to property prices in LA now?

They'll go up.... burning of slums and blighted areas in riots (if
there are any, which I doubt) is natures way of urban renewal.

What do you doubt?

That there will be any riots.

ScottW

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Schizoid Man wrote:
ScottW wrote:
Schizoid Man wrote:

What will happen to property prices in LA now?

They'll go up.... burning of slums and blighted areas in riots (if
there are any, which I doubt) is natures way of urban renewal.

What do you doubt?

That there will be any riots.

Not likely IMO, since he hardly qualifies as someone who got a raw deal.

From the Los Angeles Times
DEATH WATCH AT SAN QUENTIN
Tookie Williams Is Executed
The killer of four and Crips co-founder is given a lethal injection
after Schwarzenegger denies clemency. He never admitted his guilt.

By Jenifer Warren and Maura Dolan
Times Staff Writers

December 13, 2005, 5:18 AM EST

Stanley Tookie Williams, whose self-described evolution from gang thug
to antiviolence crusader won him an international following and
nominations for a Nobel Peace Prize, was executed by lethal injection
early today, hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to spare
his life.

His death was announced at 12:35 a.m.

During the execution, the inmate's friend Barbara Becnel and other
supporters mouthed "God bless you" and "We love you" and blew kisses to
Williams. Williams also seemed to mouth statements to Becnel.

The entire procedure took longer than usual. The execution team took
about 12 minutes to find a vein in Williams' muscular left arm. While
the personnel were probing, Williams repeatedly lifted his head off the
gurney, winced visibly, and at one point appeared to say: "Still
can't find it?"

After Williams was pronounced dead, Becnel and two other supporters of
Williams turned toward the media in the witness room and yelled in
unison, "The state of California just killed an innocent man!"

Lora Owens, murder victim Albert Owens' stepmother, appeared shaken,
and was embraced by another woman.

Outside the gates of San Quentin as midnight approached, speakers urged
calm. There was a moment of tension when a Williams' friend, Fred
Jackson, told the crowd, "It's all over."

Angry shouts broke out. A woman sobbed on someone's shoulder, and a
man burned an American flag. As Jackson continued to urge calm, the
crowd dispersed.

Speaking outside the gates of San Quentin after the execution, Becnel,
who is taking possession of Williams' body, called Schwarzenegger a
"cold-blooded murderer" and vowed to work for his defeat in the next
election.

Despite persistent pleas for mercy from around the globe, the governor
earlier in the day had said Williams was unworthy of clemency because
he had not admitted his brutal shotgun murders of four people during
two robberies 26 years ago.

After the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for a last-minute stay
Monday evening, the co-founder of the infamous Crips street gang -
who insisted he was innocent of the murders - became the 12th man
executed by the state of California since voters reinstated capital
punishment in 1978.

With its racial overtones and compelling theme - society's dueling
goals of redemption and retribution - the case provoked more
controversy than any California execution in a generation, and became a
magnet for attention and media worldwide.

A long list of prominent supporters - as disparate as South African
Bishop Desmond Tutu and rapper Snoop Dogg - rallied to Williams'
cause.

But in a strongly worded rejection of Williams' request for clemency,
Schwarzenegger said he saw no need to rehash or second-guess the many
court decisions already rendered in the case, and he questioned the
death row inmate's claims of atonement.

Williams, the governor said in a statement, never admitted guilt,
plotted to kill law enforcement officers after his capture, and made
little mention in his writings of the scourge of gang killings, which
the statement called "a tragedy of our modern culture."

As night descended Monday, about 1,000 demonstrators who gathered on a
tree-lined street leading to the gates of San Quentin State Prison
endured frosty temperatures to protest the execution.

Joan Baez sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as speakers urged
participants to keep fighting. Small clumps of people in scarves and
gloves held candles and sang hymns, while others wandered off alone,
gazing into the bay.

There were small, scattered protests around the state, including a
candlelight vigil Monday night in Leimert Park.

A few death penalty supporters also turned out at San Quentin. Scuffles
and shoving matches broke out on occasion, but no serious incidents
were reported.

Behind the prison's thick walls, Williams passed his dwindling hours
quietly, visiting with friends and talking on the telephone while under
constant watch by guards.