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history, behind the 1863 New York Draft Riots and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.Īs the riot was going on, the Algiers Motel Incident began on July 25, 1967. The Detroit riots were the third-worst in U.S.

The riots caused around $50 million in property damage. William Walter Scott III, a 19-year-old, threw a bottle at a police officer, which ignited the riot as tensions boiled over.Īccording to, 1,700 stores were looted and nearly 1,400 buildings were burned. As The Daily Beast noted, most of the police officers were white and nearly everyone in the neighborhood was black. The 12th Street Riot started after a police raid of a “blind pig,” a local name for an unlicensed, after-hours bar. The 1967 riots in Detroit resulted in the deaths of 43 people and 342 injured over five days. The incident took place during the 12th Street Riot. NOW PLAYING Cast: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah… T13:00:32.000Z From the Academy Award winning director of THE HURT LOCKER and ZERO DARK THIRTY, DETROIT tells the gripping story of one of the darkest moments during the civil unrest that rocked Detroit in the summer of ‘67. The Incident Happened on JDuring the 12th Street Riot in DetroitĭETROIT | The True Events NOW AVAILABLE ON HULU.

Here’s what you need to know about the incident that inspired the film.ġ. And felt that this story was an American tragedy that was important enough to be told.” “And so I was kind of really emotionally moved by that. “I think predominantly it was an opportunity to telescope this giant canvas of the uprisings down to a particular crime event that first presented to me … right around the Ferguson, Mo., incident,” Bigelow told NPR when asked what attracted her to the Algiers Motel story. The film’s ensemble cast includes John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Will Poulter, John Krasinski, Jeremy Strong, Malcolm David Kelly, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, Algee Smith and Jason Mitchell. The film focuses on a specific moment during the 1967 12th Street Riots called the “Algiers Motel Incident.” The incident at a motel about a mile from where the riots began ended with the deaths of three black teenagers and nine others injured by a task force made up of members of the Detroit Police Department, Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard.īigelow’s film was written by Mark Boal, who also worked with her on The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow brought another true story to the screen with this weekend’s Detroit.