Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detroit, July 1967. The worst riot of the decade erupted on a muggy night when police raided an after-hours drinking club. At the height of the violence, President Lyndon Johnson sent in the U.S. Army, and the National Guard fired machine guns from Sherman tanks. The seven-day toll: 43 killed, 2,000 injured, 7,000 arrested and 5,000 left homeless...
After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Stokely Carmichael led a march down 14th Street that swelled into a riot. In four days, nine died, 1,000 were injured and 6,000 arrested...
...DUMB RIOT...
...dumb riot," says Fullwood. "You get hurt taking other people's stuff. It ain't like they put it in the street and say 'Come and get it.' The only thing they tore up was the black area. Now I got to go way across to Hialeah to shop...
...Lamar Rushion, 21, watched neighbors take part in the riot but refused to join them. Says he: "My friends liked it.They really enjoyed it. They got some thing out of the looting like some car parts or some clothes. But how far is that going to take them? What are they going to do tomorrow?" Rushion is a high school dropout who works as a baker in downtown Miami and wants to go back to school to study photography. "This thing messed up the whole area," he says. "What little business we had is gone. So now where is everybody...