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Cynthia Scott was walking down the street when DPD Patrolman Theodore Spicher accosted her, sought to arrest her without cause, and then shot her twice as she walked away, ending her life.
Cynthia Scott RCA (born January 1, 1939) is a Canadian award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, written, and edited several films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Her works have won the Oscar and Canadian Film Award. Scott is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
“What Happened to Cynthia Scott?” is a multimedia investigate report, building on the Detroit Under Fire website, of the police murder and coverup of a 24-year-old African American woman on July 5, 1963.
Apr 24, 2024 · In 1963, 24-year-old Cynthia Scott was walking down a Detroit street at 3 a.m. when she saw her friend, Charles Marshall, leaving a Fourth of July party. He agreed to walk her home. But then cops identifying her as a sex worker pulled up and ordered her to get in the car.
Cynthia Scott was murdered in the early morning of July 5, 1963, at the corner of Edmond Place and John R Street in Detroit, Michigan. She was 24 years old at the time and would have been around 80 years old today if her life had not been taken by the Detroit Police Department.
Thirteen days after the Great March, police killed Cynthia Scott, a black sex worker, shooting her once in the stomach and twice in the back. Young activists rose up in protest. Scott’s death and the lack of indictment for the officer who shot her set off a wave of anger, protests, and picketing of police treatment of Detroit’s black community.
Jul 5, 2020 · The murder of Cynthia Scott, and subsequent finding of “justifiable homicide” by the county prosecutor, generated massive protests and was a turning point in the civil rights and anti-police brutality movement in modern Detroit.
