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The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the 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. As Philadelphia police attempted to ...
Let the Fire Burn is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directed and produced by Jason Osder and was released by Zeitgeist Films in October 2013.
In 1985, another firefight ended when a police helicopter dropped two bombs onto the roof of the MOVE compound, a townhouse located at 6221 Osage Avenue. [4] [5] The resulting fire killed six MOVE members and five of their children, and destroyed 65 houses in the neighborhood. [6] The police bombing was strongly condemned.
This was the backdrop for the altercation on March 31, 1985. Like so many police shootings of recent years, this racially charged conflict led to a fatal shooting and an acquittal for the killer ...
The FBI has previously released other video of the suspect, who wore distinctive black and gray Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes. In the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the Capitol, rioters surged past police ...
In 1971 he moved his family to Powelton, a polyglot neighborhood in West Philadelphia, close to the University of Pennsylvania. Community Housing Inc., was a cooperative in which members pooled money together to buy a handful of buildings to live in with an idea to rebel against an oppressive society that bulldozed homes to make way to build more academic housing.
A bomb squad and beeswax were among the items that were used in the extraction of the historic time capsule, which included historical documents, film and a 1921 Kansas City Star article.
Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is an American politician and former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985.