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On August 29, 2020, Aaron Danielson, an American supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, [1] [2] was shot and killed, allegedly by a far-left activist, after participating in a caravan which drove through Portland, Oregon, displaying banners and signs supporting President Donald Trump, [3] and clashing with participants in the local George Floyd protests.
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.
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 1970 Memorial Park riot was a civil disturbance by alienated white youths that began in Royal Oak, Michigan, on August 24, 1970, and spread to Birmingham, Michigan, both primarily white middle class suburbs of Detroit. The initial conflict resulted from the closure by police of Memorial Park in Royal Oak.
Another anti-Israeli group gathered outside City Hall shortly before 3 p.m., with hundreds of demonstrators waving flags and calling for an end to the Israeli-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip — as ...
A pair of Detroit police officers responding to a 911 call arrived at a house around 2:30 p.m. when they encountered their 45-year-old colleague, wearing a police uniform and armed with a high ...
A group of anti-abortion protesters blocked the entrance to a Mt. Juliet reproductive health clinic and could face years of prison time. 6 anti-abortion protesters convicted of federal felonies in ...
Her killing, during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, drew international attention, but police ruled out anti-Jewish motivations for her slaying. [11] [12] In early November, Detroit Police arrested a suspect, whom The Detroit News reported was an acquaintance of Woll, [13] then released that person without charges. [13] [14] [15]