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11 people were killed and over 200 were made homeless when police bombed a residential neighborhood. April 3, 1986 Erdman Bascomb: 41 Seattle, Washington: During a drug raid on a Genesee apartment police burst in and shot Bascomb in the chest. Bascomb was holding a black TV remote, which the officer who shot him said he mistook for a gun. [44]
4 Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Marshals Service agents [36] Lee Kelter: October 10, 2020: Denver, CO: Matthew Dolloff [37] Deona Marie Knajdek: June 13, 2021: Minneapolis, MN: Nicholas Kraus [38] Brandy Knightly: February 19, 2022: Portland, OR: Benjamin Jeffrey Smith [39] Manuel Esteban Paez Terán: January 18, 2023: Cop ...
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. May 1918 Erwin ...
The Aug. 5, 2020, fire deaths shook members of Denver's ethnic Senegalese community who feared the family whose house burned may have been targeted because they were Muslim immigrants from the ...
White rioters killed an between 39 and 150 Black residents of East St. Louis, after Black residents had killed two White policemen, mistaking the car which they were riding in for another car which was full of White occupants who previously drove through a Black neighborhood and randomly fired their guns into a crowd of Black people.
The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous. [5] The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was designed to suspend Chinese immigration to the United States, and deport Chinese residents that were termed as illegally residing in the country. The types of ...
49 people were killed, and 53 injured, in a shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12, 2016. [325] Muhlaysia Booker, an African-American transgender woman, was murdered on May 18, 2019, one month after she had been severely beaten by a mob of men following a minor traffic accident. The April 12 beating in Dallas garnered national ...
This year the number killed in traffic accidents during illegal crossings is about 50." [32] In January 2003, two undocumented immigrant passengers died when their truck crashed on Interstate 8 while fleeing the Border Patrol, after a spike strip punctured a tire. [33] A week after the accident, a third person, Elvia Rumbo Leyva, died in the ...