The same problem keeps coming back again and again, will we ever learn? It is not right to discriminate against those of another color. White continue to oppress black people, and black people keep getting upset, can you blame them?
What cause riots 1960?
Arguably the most significant single factor which contributed to the 1960s riots was the issue of
policing at the time. For many years there had been negative encounters between white members of the Los Angeles police force and the African Americas and this lead to resentment within black society.
Watts Riots 1965
Over the two years leading up to the riot, 65 Black residents were shot by police, 27 of them in the back and 25 of them unarmed. During that same period, there were 250 demonstrations against the living conditions there.
Newark Riots 1967
Racial profiling,
redlining, and lack of opportunity in education, training, and jobs led the city's
African-American residents to feel powerless and disenfranchised. In particular, many felt they had been largely excluded from meaningful political representation and often subjected to
police brutality.
Milwaukee Riots 1967
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, African American residents, outraged by the slow pace in ending housing discrimination and police brutality, began to riot on the evening of July 30, 1967.
Detroit Riots 1967
Rodney King Riots 1992
At a press conference, announcing the fourteen officers involved would be disciplined, and three would face criminal charges, Los Angeles police chief
Daryl Gates said: "We believe the officers used excessive force taking him into custody. In our review, we find that officers struck him with batons between fifty-three and fifty-six times." No charges were filed against the 25-year-old King. On his release, he spoke to reporters from his wheelchair, with his injuries evident: a broken right leg in a cast, his face badly cut and swollen, bruises on his body, and a burn area to his chest where he had been jolted with a 50,000-volt stun gun. He described how he had knelt, spread his hands out, and slowly tried to move so as not to make any 'stupid move,' being hit across the face by a billy club and shocked. He said he was scared for his life as they drew down on him.
Arbery Ahmaud 2020
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old
African-American man, was shot and killed near
Brunswick in
Glynn County, Georgia, while jogging on Holmes Road just before the intersection with Satilla Drive in the Satilla Shores neighborhood.
[2] Arbery had been pursued and confronted by two
white residents, Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, who were armed and driving a pickup truck.
[3] The event was recorded on video by a third Satilla Shores resident, William "Roddie" Bryan, who was following Arbery in a second vehicle.
[4][5] Arbery's killing and the subsequent investigation have sparked debates about the
lack of racial equality, and have been reported internationally.
Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old
African-American emergency medical technician, was fatally shot by
Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers on March 13, 2020. Three plainclothes LMPD officers executing a
no-knock search warrant entered her apartment in
Louisville,
Kentucky. Gunfire was exchanged between Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker and the officers. Walker said he believed that the officers were intruders. The LMPD officers fired over twenty shots. Taylor was shot eight times
[1] and LMPD Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly was injured by gunfire
George Floyd 2020
The
George Floyd protests are an ongoing series of protests and unrest which began in
Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020.
[7] The protests began as a response to
the killing of
George Floyd, a 46-year-old
African American man who died during an arrest after
Derek Chauvin, a
Minneapolis Police Department officer, knelt on Floyd's neck for
nearly nine minutes as three other officers looked on
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