Ray's quote:

"...I've often felt that were it not for that rain, the situation would have evolved to the same level as the '67 riot. In 1967, of course, it was July and no such luck with the weather from eleven months prior."

I heard the same thing from a friend's father, who was a Detroit Policeman at the time. Something, somewhere was going to explode here, as it did in other cities. It was just a matter of when.