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The Harlem riot of 1964 was a race riot that occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964 in the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, United States.It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses.
The town and the "Bedford Boys" proportionately suffered the greatest losses of any American town during the campaign, thus inspiring the United States Congress to establish the D-Day memorial in Bedford. [3] [4] The Bedford Boys included three sets of brothers: twins Roy and Ray Stevens, with Ray killed during the landing while Roy survived ...
He shot at police responding to the scene and was killed by return fire. [137] 1993-01-31: Copeland, Timothy (19) Washington, D.C. Copeland was shot and killed by a police sniper after a hostage crisis in which Copeland fatally shot a woman and an infant and wounded another woman. [138] [139] 1993-01-30: Muhammed, Mujahid (24) New York (New York)
Dallas police officers were called about 1:20 a..m. to assist with a pursuit involving the Bedford Police Department and Dallas County sheriff’s deputies, who were chasing two men in a vehicle ...
Aaron said there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school. Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fire trucks ...
For example, officials in Bridgeport, Connecticut's most populous city, have limited the number of police officers inside schools, and have discouraged them from arresting students. Even after the deadly elementary-school shooting in nearby Newtown, the district resisted the urge to become more punitive.
Two teenage boys who were fatally shot Friday by masked suspects as they and other students were leaving a Chicago high school have been identified by authorities. The Cook County Medical Examiner ...
A housing police officer shot and killed Meyers during a narcotics operation as the officer subdued him, hitting Meyers in the back of the head. Protests broke out in Paterson in response to the shooting. [79] April 6, 1995 Jerry Jackson: 44 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Police pursued Jackson for driving the wrong way down a one-way street.