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Riots in Detroit, Michigan, have occurred since the city was founded in 1701. This area was settled by various ethnicities following thousands of years of indigenous history. During the colonial period, it was nominally ruled by France and Great Britain before the border was set in the early 19th century and it became part of the United States.
On May 31, protesters began a 72-hour occupation of the area outside the Saginaw Police Department in a demonstration called "Stand with the Ghost of George Floyd." [ 64 ] On June 2, the demonstrators marched from Hoyt Park to the Saginaw County Governmental Center building, blocking the Court Street Bridge in the process.
A few hundred youths were held back from entering the public park by police. The youth staged a sit in and began to sing songs. A four-hour stand off with the police occurred that night. Some youths responded by throwing bottles and rocks and breaking windows on Woodward Avenue, one of the main traffic arteries in the Detroit metropolitan area. [4]
Football supporters in an 1,000-strong Whatsapp group vowed they are ‘prepared to go to prison’ at counter protests Who are the far-right groups caught in violent clashes at Remembrance Day ...
A Detroit police corporal accused of shooting three photojournalists with rubber pellets while they covered protests against police brutality has been ordered to stand trial. Daniel Debono is ...
The post Detroit area cop caught on video punching Jaquwan Smith charged in civil rights case appeared first on TheGrio. Ex- Detroit police officer Matthew Rodriguez was fired on June 23 and ...
Notable protests and vigils were held in Atlanta, Bridgeport, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Tucson from January 20–22, 2023. [193] Protests in Atlanta on January 21, 2023, briefly turned violent as some demonstrators threw objects, set police car on fire, and smashed windows of bank buildings with hammers. [194]
Detroit City Council, in a 7-1 vote on Tuesday, approved an ordinance that would create a buffer zone requiring protesters — within a 100-foot radius of a health care building entrance — to ...