On this day in 1967, the deadliest race riot of the "Long, Hot Summer of 1967" began when Detroit police raided an unlicensed drinking club that was celebrating the return of two veterans, arresting everyone present. The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 refers to just a few short months in which more than a hundred riots took place across the United States.

In the early hours of July 23rd, Detroit Police Department (DPD) officers raided an unlicensed weekend drinking club in the office of the United Community League for Civic Action. Expecting a few revelers inside, they instead found a party of 82 people celebrating the return of two local GIs from the Vietnam War. The police decided to arrest everyone present.

After the DPD left, a crowd of onlookers began looting an adjacent clothing store. Shortly thereafter, full-scale looting began throughout the neighborhood. This looting escalated into a city-wide uprising that involved shootouts between rioters and police officers.

The violence escalated throughout the next day, resulting in some 483 fires and 1,800 arrests. Thousands of guns were stolen from stores. Firefighters attempting to put out fires were shot at, police brutality was rampant. Even when thousands of federal troops were sent to occupy Detroit, the rioting could not be quelled until July 28th.

43 people were killed in total, most of whom were black. Among the dead was a four year old girl named Tanya Blanding, shot and killed by Sgt. Mortimer J. LeBlanc after he fired indiscriminately into her mother's apartment. LeBlanc was exonerated by the state.

The scale of the riot was the worst in the United States since the 1863 New York City draft riots during the American Civil War and was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later.

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  • brainwormfarmer [any,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    :angry-hex: i hate duolingo so much it has so many tiny problems that just pile up and never get fixed. like when you pick a word from an audio reading wrong you cant click on the words anymore to hear out the difference. or there are lessons with missing audio or bad translations that havent been fixed in 3+ years. 90% of the comments are useless complaints about a translation not being accepted. and comments are the only help you get for a sentence when there should be a list of all the grammer rules and vocab in it. and now they shut down all the comments and forums to save money so you cant even vent about this shit anymore.

    i wish there was a open source version of it i know there is anki but anki has too many competing decks that are just massive and overlap and you need to spend a lot of time on them to see their problems
    and its also not very guided. i wish there was just one big course that everyone contributed to to make a good one
    also getting back into anki from a few missed days is just devastating and it feels like you never get back to 0 repetitions so i end up ditching it

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The Department of Education should just have a language education program online.