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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.
- Jeffrey Horner
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.
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 ...
Hysell and Malloy were two young white females who were inside the Algiers Motel with Carl Cooper, Michael Clark, Lee Forsythe, Auburey Pollard, and James Sortor, five young African American males, on the evening of July 25, 1967.
Aug 4, 2017 · Forty-three people died during the devastating riots that gripped Detroit in 1967. But it was the brutal deaths of three black teenagers — killed by police at the Algiers Motel — that...
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 ...
Aug 2, 2017 · The Algiers Motel shooting occurred at the height of the rioting of July on Detroit’s central thoroughfare. Police had been subjected to sniper firing, and one cop had already been killed.
