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The city of Seattle experienced protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and 2021. Beginning on May 29, 2020, demonstrators took to the streets throughout the city for marches and sit-ins, often of a peaceful nature but which also devolved into riots. Participants expressed opposition to systemic racism, police brutality and violence ...
Ku Klux Klan activities in Inglewood, California, were highlighted by the 1922 arrest and trial of 36 men, most of them masked, for a night-time raid on a suspected bootlegger and his family. The raid led to the shooting death of one of the culprits, an Inglewood police officer. A jury returned a "not guilty" verdict for all defendants who ...
Seattle: The Central Tavern: April 24, 1988: The Vogue (Sub Pop Sunday) Blood Circus: May 14, 1988: Olympia: The Glass House: Lansdat Blister & Sister Skelter *Last show with Dave Foster. May 21, 1988: Evergreen State College: Herd of Turtles, Lansdat Blister, The Speds & Telefunken *First show with Chad Channing on drums. May 27, 1988: The ...
Street protests continued after the zone was cleared. [100] Protests continued in Seattle and at the CHOP site over the following days and months. [100] [101] [102] The SPD reported vandalism in the Capitol Hill area during the night of July 19; fireworks were thrown into the East Precinct, starting a small fire which was rapidly extinguished ...
The murder of Kristopher "Kris" Kime (June 25, 1980 – February 28, 2001) was the killing of a 20-year-old Auburn, Washington resident and Highline Community College (Des Moines, Washington) student when he was knocked down and beaten to death during the Seattle Mardi Gras Riots that occurred in Seattle's Pioneer Square district early in the morning of February 28, 2001.
v. t. e. The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, [1] were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999.
2008: Los Angeles, CA – Locke High School riot [43] 2009: Oakland, CA – 2009 Oakland riots (peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, by a BART transit policeman). 2014–2015: Ferguson, MO – The Ferguson unrest (a series of riots that broke out over the shooting of Michael Brown).
August 3, 2024 at 12:50 PM. A car was torched and completely destroyed during unrest in Sunderland [BBC] Rioters who attacked police and property following the fatal stabbing of three girls in ...