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Fifty-nine Detroit postal workers were attacked by stray dogs in 2010, according to a Detroit postmaster. [18] Detroit had faced many cases of arson each year on Devil's Night, the evening before Halloween. In the 1980s a number of residents noted that they had turned to arson of abandoned homes to keep drug dealers from using the empty buildings.
The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
In 1987, when he was a Piston, Thomas organized the "No Crime Day" in Detroit. He had the help of Detroit Mayor Coleman Young to call for a moratorium on crime in the summer of 1986. [97] Thomas founded Mary's Court, a foundation that supports economically disadvantaged parents and children on the West Side of Chicago.
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“I don't really give a crap," Campbell said Monday in his weekly radio interview on WXYT-FM (97.1). "If we’re going to lose because of code words then we’re not good enough anyway.
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Detroit is a 2017 American period crime drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell, John Krasinski, and Anthony Mackie. Based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 12th Street Riot, the film's release commemorated the 50th anniversary of the ...
Matthew Stafford arrived in Detroit as a hotshot 21-year-old quarterback. During the 12 years in between, he desperately tried to end the Lions' decades-long playoff victory drought.