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The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black residents attacked Orthodox Jewish residents, damaged their homes, and looted businesses.
Aug 19, 2021 · The looting, rioting and violence that started on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 would go on four long days, injuring more than 150 cops and 38 civilians, and creating two martyrs - one Black,...
Aug 19, 2015 · August 19, 2015 11:00 AM EDT. T he incident that set off the 1991 Crown Heights riots was easy to pinpoint: on Aug. 19, a car driven by a Hasidic Jew hit and killed a young black child.
Aug 19, 2021 · For three days in 1991, starting Aug. 19 in the aftermath of a terrible car accident that killed Gavin Cato, a child of Caribbean descent who lived in Crown Heights, the neighborhood was shaken...
Aug 19, 2021 · CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — The Crown Heights riots that pitted Black residents against Orthodox Jewish residents thirty years ago this week may seem like a distant memory, but there’s still...
Aug 19, 2021 · PUBLISHED 6:00 AM ET Aug. 19, 2021. It was three days of chaos, violence and death in Brooklyn 30 years ago. The Crown Heights riots took place August 19 to August 21, 1991. Retired NYPD...
Nov 27, 2017 · On the third day of the riot, a group of black protesters who were part of an Al Sharpton -led march pulled away from a preplanned route. They burned an Israeli flag outside the building of a local Orthodox Jewish organization.
