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Three sworn personnel were killed in the riots: a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter was struck when a wall of a fire-weakened structure fell on him while fighting fires in a store, [40] a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy was accidentally shot by another deputy while in a struggle with rioters, [41] and a Long Beach Police Department ...
4 April 1968, Washington, D.C., US, A report from National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders identified discrimination and poverty as the root causes of the riots that erupted in cities around the nation during the late 1960s and in Washington, DC in April 1968 [12] Baltimore riot of 1968 4 April 1968, Baltimore, Maryland, US Glenville ...
The term ghetto riots, also termed ghetto rebellions, race riots, or negro riots refers to a period of widespread urban unrest and riots across the United States in the mid-to-late 1960s, largely fueled by racial tensions and frustrations with ongoing discrimination, even after the passage of major Civil Rights legislation; highlighting the issues of racial inequality in Northern cities that ...
The United States experienced a series of "long hot summers" of racial unrest during the mid-to-late 1960s. They started with the Harlem riots in July 1964, and the Watts riots in August 1965. During the first nine months of 1967, over 150 riots erupted across American cities. The most destructive riots were in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New ...
1968 Washington, D.C., riots. 1960 - Biloxi wade-ins, April 24, Biloxi, Mississippi (Race riot) 1960 - HUAC riot, May 13, Students protest House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, 12 injured, 64 arrested, San Francisco, California; 1960 – Newport Jazz Festival Riot, July 2, Newport, Rhode Island
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors condemns the Zoot Suit Riots that targeted Latino, African American and Filipino youths 80 years ago.
2009 – Riots in Oslo, Copenhagen, London, Belfast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities following the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. 2009 – Riot on January 13 in Riga, Latvia , after a peaceful demonstration of people, demanding parliament (Saeima) dissolution.
Los Angeles riots may refer to: 1992 Los Angeles riots, following the acquittal of police officers accused of using excessive force against Rodney King; Watts riots, of 1965, following an arrest for drunk driving in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; Zoot Suit Riots, in 1943, between Anglo servicemen stationed in the city, and Latino youths