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US. May 12, 2022. May 17, 2022. The Minneapolis City Council on May 12, 2022, voted to approved a resolution by Andrea Jenkins rename "George Perry Floyd Jr. Place" as "George Perry Floyd Square". The section of Chicago Avenue from East 38th Street had previously been renamed for Floyd in September 2020.
Wilmington, Delaware (November 13) 1919 – Annapolis riot of 1919, June 27, Annapolis, Maryland. 1919 – Boston Police Strike, September 9–11, Boston, Massachusetts. 1919 – Steel Strike of 1919, September 22 – January 8 Pennsylvania. 1919 – Coal Strike of 1919, November 1 – December 10 Pennsylvania.
The documentary Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd, released in 2021 and aired on Twin Cities PBS, contained footage of protests and unrest in south Minneapolis in the five days that elapsed between Floyd's murder and the criminal charges being filed against the four police officers. The director, Cy Dodson, lived in the neighborhood and ...
Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California.It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant.
500+ protestors 100+ other civilians 152 police officers. The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August ...
The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration led by Republican staffers at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local ...
The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 ...
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a ...