The Aftermath
Delving into the ramifications and consequences thrust upon residents in Detroit, the participants and non-participants from the effects of the Rebellion illuminates the racial animus that I have documented through the years in Detroit, and one of the major motivating factors was police hostility, brutality and racial hatred (Fine 233-246, Widick 182-183). Numerous reports of police brutality were reported during and after the rebellion exposing the brutal treatment by police who used the disorder and chaos as an excuse to execute their racial hatred. In the article “Fiscal Politics and the Police: Detroit, 1928-76,” David McDowall and Colin Loftin scrutinize the two theories of the source of police power in Detroit, the public …show more content…
Ulbrich states of the numerous complaints of police brutality during the rebellion referring to a Detroit Free Press report commenting on 200 complaints given to Civil Rights organizations and Congressman John Conyers’s office and some of the complaints had been forwarded to the Justice Department and FBI for investigation, in addition to verbal abuse, theft, and arson accusations. (pp. 54-58). Activity of the National Guard was absolutely abysmal as their unprofessionalism and racial hatred led to wanton shootings as documented by the 155,576 rounds they fired as opposed by the 202 fired by the 101st Airborne (Fine 224).
Documenting the timeline and all that happened during the week of July 23, 1967 is not the intention of this study, but here are some of the results. Many incidents took place during this rebellion, 43 officially killed, over 1,100 injured, including the arrest of over 7,000 people, over 2,000 buildings destroyed, and these statistics cannot be verified as completely verified (Fine 298-299, Martelle 193, Young 176). The Detroit Riot/Rebellion was called the worst civil disorder in the history of the United States and these statistics give vivid testimony to this characterization as Sydney Fine …show more content…
There was speculation initiated from insiders of the police department and residents that the number was closer to 100 or more (Fine 299). Conversely, Fine contends that there was substantiation of the official reports as one of the daily newspapers, The Detroit Free Press had an intensive inquiry of the deaths, by going to the city morgue and the sewer systems to repudiate the rumors of unaccounted for bodies and the rumors of bodies being in garbage trucks and thrown into the Detroit River (Fine 299-300).
The Victims
Sadly, there were 43 people officially reported as having lost their lives during the rebellion here are their names and some information on how they died, emphasizing that they were human beings, more than just statistics. Documented in (Berlatsky 35-48)
Sunday July 23, 1967
1. Krikor Messerlian (68, white) - A shoe repair shop owner who was beaten to death by a young black man while trying to protect his business from looters, died 4 days
Delving into the ramifications and consequences thrust upon residents in Detroit, the participants and non-participants from the effects of the Rebellion illuminates the racial animus that I have documented through the years in Detroit, and one of the major motivating factors was police hostility, brutality and racial hatred (Fine 233-246, Widick 182-183). Numerous reports of police brutality were reported during and after the rebellion exposing the brutal treatment by police who used the disorder and chaos as an excuse to execute their racial hatred. In the article “Fiscal Politics and the Police: Detroit, 1928-76,” David McDowall and Colin Loftin scrutinize the two theories of the source of police power in Detroit, the public …show more content…
Ulbrich states of the numerous complaints of police brutality during the rebellion referring to a Detroit Free Press report commenting on 200 complaints given to Civil Rights organizations and Congressman John Conyers’s office and some of the complaints had been forwarded to the Justice Department and FBI for investigation, in addition to verbal abuse, theft, and arson accusations. (pp. 54-58). Activity of the National Guard was absolutely abysmal as their unprofessionalism and racial hatred led to wanton shootings as documented by the 155,576 rounds they fired as opposed by the 202 fired by the 101st Airborne (Fine 224).
Documenting the timeline and all that happened during the week of July 23, 1967 is not the intention of this study, but here are some of the results. Many incidents took place during this rebellion, 43 officially killed, over 1,100 injured, including the arrest of over 7,000 people, over 2,000 buildings destroyed, and these statistics cannot be verified as completely verified (Fine 298-299, Martelle 193, Young 176). The Detroit Riot/Rebellion was called the worst civil disorder in the history of the United States and these statistics give vivid testimony to this characterization as Sydney Fine …show more content…
There was speculation initiated from insiders of the police department and residents that the number was closer to 100 or more (Fine 299). Conversely, Fine contends that there was substantiation of the official reports as one of the daily newspapers, The Detroit Free Press had an intensive inquiry of the deaths, by going to the city morgue and the sewer systems to repudiate the rumors of unaccounted for bodies and the rumors of bodies being in garbage trucks and thrown into the Detroit River (Fine 299-300).
The Victims
Sadly, there were 43 people officially reported as having lost their lives during the rebellion here are their names and some information on how they died, emphasizing that they were human beings, more than just statistics. Documented in (Berlatsky 35-48)
Sunday July 23, 1967
1. Krikor Messerlian (68, white) - A shoe repair shop owner who was beaten to death by a young black man while trying to protect his business from looters, died 4 days