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Coordinates: 42.376121°N 83.077510°W. The Algiers Motel incident (also called the Algiers Motel Murders) occurred in Detroit, Michigan, United States, throughout the night of July 25–26, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. At the Algiers Motel, approximately one mile east of where the riot began, three civilians were killed ...
This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Michigan that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into three subject areas as follows:
On July 26, the fourth day of the Uprising, three white police officers murdered three innocent African American teenagers at the Algiers Motel. The DPD officers were part of a contingent of ten policemen and National Guardsmen who stormed the motel and then brutalized and tortured the interracial group of youth they found inside.
May 11, 2022 · Detroit Under Fire reports that when the Detroit Police Department arrived on the scene, along with members of the National Guard, they fired at least 200 rounds at the house before storming inside. Carl Cooper was the first person shot and killed in the initial rush into the annex.
Aug 5, 2017 · No starter pistol — or gun of any kind — was found at the Algiers, according to numerous contemporary newspaper reports. Cooper was the first to be killed that night, with his body found in a ...
Sep 10, 2018 · The Detroit Rebellion left 43 people dead and caused hundreds of documented and undocumented injuries. The vast majority of the 7,000 people who were arrested were black.
Detroit Under Fire is a multimedia digital exhibit that documents patterns and incidents of police brutality and misconduct, as well as 188 fatal shootings and other killings by law enforcement, in the city of Detroit during the era of the modern civil rights movement, from 1957-1973.
