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In the early morning of January 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C., the United States, Jason Lewis shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake. [1]Lewis, a Black 41-year-old father of four and longtime D. C. Parks and Recreation employee, had stepped onto his patio to investigate a possible home invasion when he saw Blake and two others breaking into parked vehicles along his street.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. 2020 civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. (September 2021) George Floyd protests in ...
[68] An aerial photo [69] and footage of the capital with numerous fires spread online and internationally, with headlines in the U.K. such as "Washington DC in flames as protesters start fires near White House." [70] The Toronto Star published an article titled "American cities on edge as fires burn near the White House amid protests."
Housing in D.C. was deeply segregated. Most of the slums in the city were in the southern quarter of the city, and most of the inhabitants of these slums were black. The United States Commission on Civil Rights said in a 1962 report that housing was much harder to attain for blacks than for whites, and that the housing blacks could find within the city's border was in a severely worse ...
Eight people were killed, six of whom were Asian women. A suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, was taken into custody later that day. [124] Several anti-Asian violence rallies have been held across the United States in 2021 in response to the recent rise of racism against Asian Americans. Several of the rallies are named "Stop Asian Hate".
March 3, 1913: Woman Suffrage Procession: Between 5,000 and 10,000 people marched through Washington, D. C. in support of the women's suffrage movement.Organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and sponsored by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it turned violent when onlookers attacked the suffragists.
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On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during the attack on the United States Capitol. [1] [2] [3] She was part of a crowd of supporters of then outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump who violently breached and stormed the United States Capitol building seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.