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On June 24, 1969, Vivian Strong, a 14-year-old Black American girl, was killed in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, when a white police officer shot her in the back of the head without warning. The white police officer, and his Black partner, had been dispatched to the location because there were "juveniles breaking in." When they arrived at the ...
Police training and procedures on chokeholds and restraints are coming under fire. The officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is facing felony second-degree murder charges. An officer in ...
In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or ...
The 1969 People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969. The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
On Thursday, June 5, 1969, there was an alleged fight between two men that Indianapolis police officers were called to break up. [3] [1] When the police officers arrived, "a group of twenty people attacked the officers". [3] The officers were slightly injured, and in the conflict, one of their revolvers and badges were stolen. [3]
It was a Friday night in 1969, and The Who was on the run from the NYPD. It's a story that may sound vaguely familiar to devoted fans, but Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have spoken little of ...
Law and Order is a 1969 documentary film directed, written, shot, produced and edited by Frederick Wiseman. It was Wiseman's third film after Titicut Follies (1967) and High School (1968). [ 1 ] The films were among the earliest examples of direct cinema by an American filmmaker.
Three police officers were injured when the demonstrators hit them with rocks. The Be-In on April 6, 1969, was recorded by Irv Teibel and released on his Environments (album series) . In November 1969, protesters took a different approach and organized a lie-in at Sheep Meadow in Central Park.