Tragedy struck in Los Angeles’ Chinese quarter. On October 24, 1871, Robert Thompson, a saloonkeeper turned rancher, cautiously approached the front door of a house on Calle de los Negroes (aka “Negro Alley”). The occupants, members of a neighborhood Chinese tong, were quiet now, but they were well armed, and they had shot a police …
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