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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 ...
The Lockefield Garden Riot was a riot in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1969. Following racial tensions between Black residents and the police, the riot lasted two days, from Thursday, June 5 to Saturday June 7. The riot began when two police officers responded to a call about an alleged fight and reactions to their presence escalated.
About 800 Weatherman members showed up prior to October 8 and faced 2,000 police officers. No more than 300 were left willing to face the enormous gathering of police a second time around [ 11 ] on the evening of Wednesday, October 8, 1969, in Chicago's Lincoln Park , and perhaps half of them were members of Weatherman collectives from around ...
For its investigation, AP catalogued 1,036 deaths over a decade’s time after officers ha. In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers ...
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.