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The Algiers Motel Incident
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From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.
On the evening of July 25, 1967, on the third night of the 12th Street Riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel. Acting on a report of gunfire, officers rounded up the occupants of the motel's annex—several black men and two white women—and proceeded to beat them and repeatedly threaten to kill them. By the end of the night, three of the men were dead. Three po...