The crowd broke up and reformed in the West End section of Plainfield where widespread rioting started again.
Some reported that the police dismissively referred to the gatherers as "boys" in urging them to leave the park, which was taken as racially inflammatory and may have led to anger. The Union County, New Jersey Park Police, who had jurisdiction over the park, declared the meeting unlawful and ordered the crowd to disperse. On Sunday afternoon several hundred people gathered at Green Brook Park to hear the local Director of Human Relations talk about the situation in the city. Police from surrounding jurisdictions were called in and the crowds finally dispersed when a heavy rain started to fall early Sunday morning. Rioting and looting increased and Molotov cocktails were thrown at fire trucks responding to calls. Some were white men and some were black men and the hatred they fanned was infectious. Many long time residents of Plainfield claimed that " outside agitators" who did not live in Plainfield came into the city to provoke violence and to "rile up" the community. The White Star Diner, which still stands today, was depicted by artist Casey Ruble in 2015.
When the local police showed up in force, the group dispersed.
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They vented their anger along the way by smashing store windows and throwing rocks at police cars. Afterwards, about 40 young black men left the diner and marched back to their housing project in the West End section of Plainfield. Tensions remained high that summer through the night of Friday, July 14 when a fight broke out at a local diner, The White Star. Plainfield is located about 18 miles southwest of Newark, and about a third of Plainfield's 48,000 citizen were African Americans then.
Two days after some African Americans began protesting and rioting in Newark in 1967, the Plainfield riots began.
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