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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 · A group, including those Detroit policemen, and a handful of National Guardsmen, raided the motel after reports of snipers came in to authorities.
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.
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.
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.
Aug 4, 2017 · Three police officers and a private security guard were arrested in the slayings at the Algiers Motel and charged with conspiring to deny the civil rights of 10 people by threatening and beating...
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.
