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April 18–24: Protests begin. [] On April 18, 2015, immediately outside the Western District police station, hundreds of Baltimore citizens protested against the apparent mistreatment of Freddie Gray as well against inadequate and inconsistent information on police actions during the arrest and transport.
[112] [113] [114] On April 27, rioting and looting began after the funeral of Gray, with two patrol cars destroyed and 15 officers reported injured. [112] Protesters looted and burned down a CVS Pharmacy location in downtown Baltimore. [115] In reaction to the unrest, the Maryland State Police sent 82 troopers to protect the city. [116]
Arrested. 5,800+. The Baltimore riot of 1968 was a period of civil unrest that lasted from April 6 to April 14, 1968, in Baltimore. The uprising included crowds filling the streets, burning and looting local businesses, and confronting the police and national guard. The immediate cause of the riot was the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther ...
As civil disturbances began spreading across the nation, the initially peaceful Baltimore day of April 6th, 1968 became increasingly violent. The riots ended with five deaths, 300 fires and over ...
1856 – Battle of Seattle (1856), Jan 26, Attack by Native American tribesmen upon Seattle, Washington. 1856 – Pottawatomie massacre, May 24, Franklin County, Kansas. 1856 – Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856, (anti-immigration) 1856 – San Francisco Vigilance Movement, San Francisco, California.
The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A ...
On May 29, protesters at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore blocked traffic on Light Street near 7:00 pm. The demonstration continued to Baltimore City Hall. [11] On May 30, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Baltimore City Hall on Saturday night, for the second night. Protesters were mainly peaceful, with some reports of arrests and a police ...
The 1968 Detroit riot was a civil disturbance that occurred between April 4–5, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Less than a year after the violent unrest of 1967, areas of 12th Street (present-day Rosa Parks Boulevard) again erupted in chaos (simultaneously with over 100 other US cities) following King's assassination.