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A riot took place on and around the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan on the night of March 27, 1999. [2] Following a loss by MSU's basketball team to Duke University in the NCAA Final Four, between 5,000 and 10,000 students and non-students gathered throughout the outside of campus. [3]
1999 – Michigan State University student riot, April 1999, East Lansing, Michigan 1999 – Woodstock '99 music festival incident , July 1999, Rome, New York 1999 – WTO Meeting of 1999 , "The Battle of Seattle", November 1999, Seattle, Washington
Eight people were shot, resulting in three dead and five injured. All of the victims of the shooting were Michigan State students. [14] Three were killed: Arielle Diamond Anderson, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan and the niece of Chandra "Deelishis" Davis; Brian Fraser, a sophomore and Phi Delta Theta chapter president from Grosse Pointe; and Alexandria Verner, a junior from Clawson ...
As tensions rose in Lansing, the city enacted a curfew which remained in effect until 5:00 am on June 1. [47] [48] On June 2 a group of about 250 gathered at the East Lansing City Hall to protest the murder of George Floyd and two separate incidents where a white East Lansing police officer was accused of using excessive force against black men.
Another Michigan state senator, Sylvia Santana, was stunned but not surprised by the riots. She said that “Michigan was the precursor for what happened,” on January 6. She wore a bulletproof vest during the April 30 incident, and she said that she wore the same one on January 6. [17]
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Young people took part in the summer riots as they “looked fun” - not because they held anti-migrant or racist views, the children’s commissioner has claimed.. A new report from the ...
Meridian Race Riot of 1871 – A highly contentious trial regarding the persecution of Black freedmen by the Ku Klux Klan and subsequent retaliation by the freedmen led to a gunfight in the courtroom and the death of the presiding judge. The local Klansmen looked for the Black suspects they thought responsible, and when unable to find them ...