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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.
On April 27, rioting and looting began after the funeral of Gray, with two patrol cars destroyed and 15 officers reported injured. Protesters looted and burned down a CVS Pharmacy location in downtown Baltimore. In reaction to the unrest, the Maryland State Police sent 82 troopers to protect the city.
12 (civilians) killed, unknown hundreds wounded. The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. It occurred between antiwar "Copperhead" Democrats (the largest party in Maryland) and other Southern ...
Baltimore City Police Commissioner, Michael S. Harrison expressed his disgust and heartbreak over the murder of George Floyd. Anne Arundel County Police Chief, Timothy J. Altomare echoed Harrison's statement in a press conference. Locations Protest in Howard County, Maryland on May 31 Annapolis
700. 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 ...
Baltimore riots can refer to several incidents of civil unrest in Baltimore, Maryland's history. It generally refers to the Baltimore Riot of 1861 (also known as the "Pratt Street Riots"), where a mob of Confederate Southern sympathizers attacked newly raised Union state militia troops transiting through the town on April 18–19, 1861 in some of the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.
The 6th Regiment of the Maryland National Guard firing on the crowd during the strikes and riots of 1877. This list is about incidents of civil unrest, rioting, violent labor disputes, or minor insurrections or revolts in Baltimore, Maryland. 1835 - Baltimore bank riot, occurred August 6 through 9 following the failure of the Bank of Maryland
The Baltimore riot of 1861. The Civil War divided Baltimore and Maryland's residents. Much of the social and political elite favored the Confederacy—and indeed owned house slaves. In the 1860 election the city's large German element voted not for Lincoln but for Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. They were less concerned with the ...