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The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of MOVE, [56] was convicted and sentenced to death for the unrelated 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. The death sentence was overturned in 2011 by a federal judge and Abu-Jamal was resentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. MOVE continues to advocate for Abu-Jamal's release. [57]
Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist (born July 31, 1960) is an American murderer who on October 30, 1985, opened fire at the Springfield Mall, a shopping mall in Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Seegrist killed three people and wounded seven others before being disarmed by a man who was shopping at the mall.
A white mob shot and killed a black man and then hung two black men, one of which was a minister, and two black women, one of which was pregnant at the time. Everett massacre: 1916 Nov 5 Everett: Washington: 5 27 injured and scores of IWW unionists arrested by police and vigilantes. Elaine massacre: 1919 Sep 30 Phillips County: Arkansas: 100–241
Some Black residents were so afraid after the massacre that they changed their names, she said, making it difficult to find records of them and determine the true number.
The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of the incident that caused death. Different death dates, if known, are noted in the description. This page lists 1734 people.
In 1883, after a police-protected mob attack on abolitionists and police beatings of Black voters, Philadelphia in 1924 studied its policing of Black people. The study determined that Black people ...
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