“They were peaceful people. These were great people,” he said in a July 11 interview with Fox News. “The love, the love in the air, I have never seen anything like it. “You have people with no guns that walked down. And frankly, the doors were open and the police, in many cases, you know, they have—they have hundreds of hours of tape. They ought to release the tape to see what really happened.” Yet more than 100 police officers had been injured during the riot. Graham did not want to hear this. By the summer, federal prosecutors had charged more than 500 people in the riot.
