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On June 28, two protestors were violently thrown from a Detroit Police Department SUV that they had climbed on top of, and its rear window was also smashed in. [18] On August 22, forty people were arrested while protesting Operation Legend in Downtown Detroit. Police also used tear gas and pepper spray on the crowd of about 100 people. [19]
Citizen became the top-ranked news app on the Apple chart on June 3, 2020, [17] up from 744th, [41] and surpassing Twitter, CNN, and Fox News. [17] During the first week of June, around 600,000 news users signed up to Citizen. [41] [17] [42] In January 2021, Axios reported that Citizen had raised $73 million in new funding, with Greycroft as a ...
A Detroit police lieutenant has been placed on administrative duties after a shouting match in which he told a pro-Palestinian protester to “go back to Mexico.” The encounter Sunday outside ...
Violence flared between police and blacks in the early morning hours of July 23, 1967. The confrontation was spurred on by a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar in the Near West Side. The rioting left 43 dead and 1,189 injured, and resulted in 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. It was finally quelled on July 28, 1967.
Detroit City Council, in a 7-1 vote on Tuesday, approved an ordinance that would create a buffer zone requiring protesters — within a 100-foot radius of a health care building entrance — to ...
The recent push for new police training centers in Atlanta and elsewhere is a direct response to the 2020 protests following the murder of Floyd and other high-profile police killings.
The day of the shooting, protesters gathered outside the police department in downtown Akron. Standoffs with police occurred. Barricades were installed around the police department on July 2. Protests occurred for more than three days straight. [178] Akron officials announced that July 4 celebrations would be cancelled due to the shooting. [179]
The anti-war protests have taken place in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza, which it launched after a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that Israel says killed 1,200 people.