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Race riot in which 43 people were killed [2] Algiers Motel incident: Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family murders: Good Hart: 1968-06-25: 6: Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at ...
The InterFaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit (also referred to as the IFLC) is a faith-based civic organization founded in 2010 by members of a Detroit-based interfaith group known then as the Interfaith Partners. [1] Its headquarters are in Oak Park, Michigan. [2]
Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People wrote that, due to the anti-Japanese sentiment in Metro Detroit in the early 1980s, "it felt dangerous to have an Asian face." [46] In 1982, in Metro Detroit autoworkers killed Vincent Chin, a Chinese American mistaken as a Japanese American
Detroit had 252 homicides in 2023 — fewest since 1966. Still, "I think we all agree that it is entirely too violent in our communities," chief says. Detroit records fewest homicides since 1966 ...
People marching by Detroit's Renaissance Center in protest of the sentence of Chin's killers being too light, May 9, 1983. The lenient sentencing of Ebens and Nitz enraged the Asian-American communities in the Detroit area and across the United States, who saw it as a sign of public indifference toward racism directed at Asian-Americans. [8]
The 1980 U.S. Census counted 1,213 ethnic Chinese in the City of Detroit. Zia wrote that the figure was "surely an undercount" but that the Chinese population in the City of Detroit "was unquestionably small." [4] The presence of family-owned businesses in the Detroit Chinatown area had declined by the 1980s. Zia wrote that by that decade, the ...
Samantha Woll was found stabbed to death outside her home on 21 October. It took police more than two weeks to arrest a suspect. Andrea Blanco reports
This is a list of mass or spree killers that were considered by reliable sources to have been motivated by political or religious causes. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves.