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Baltimore riot police form a line to push back protesters and media members on April 28. At 10:15 p.m., hundreds of demonstrators, some throwing bottles at police, remained in the streets while police in riot gear began to move the crowds with speakers from helicopters overhead broadcasting, "You must go home. You cannot remain here.
1918 – Detroit trolley riot, Detroit, Michigan [3] 1919 – Seattle General Strike , February 6–11, Seattle, Washington 1919 – May Day Riots , May 1, Cleveland, Ohio , Boston , Massachusetts , New York City , New York (state) (labor riots triggered by Eugene V. Debs ' conviction, and American intervention in the Russian Civil War )
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 ...
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.
[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]
The rioting received extensive media coverage and was part of the "Long, hot summer of 1967". [4] Its scale was the worst since the 1863 New York draft riots, even surpassing the 1943 Detroit race riot; it would remain the worst until the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which was also then surpassed by the 2020–2021 United States racial unrest.
3,000+. Arrested. 20,000+. The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, [2] were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City.