Crown Heights: Why The Lubavite Riots

The culmination of the riot originated from a car crash that caused African-Americans to start pointing fingers at the Jews and vice versa. After leaving a cemetery to visit the grave of a leader of the Jewish community, Yosef Lifsh started to drive east on President Street when he either ran

Race riots are one of the major news items we hear about via the media when a social crisis occurs. The riots in Baltimore, however, were not so much about race, but more about economic and social class separations. The riots began as a peaceful protest amongst the citizens of Baltimore over the death of one of their own, Freddie Gray. Gray was a young, African-American, from a financially lower class area of Baltimore. Unfortunately, he died while in custody of the Baltimore Police. While this is a tragic loss, he was unlawfully detained by the police (Sarlin, 2015) during this ordeal. On the surface, the riots may appear as a cut-and-dry race provoked, once they are looked into further, that is not necessarily the case.

It should be known, beforehand, that the Kerner Commission's Report doesn’t direct the blame towards white people specifically; instead, the riots were usually caused by symbols that represent white people, including media portrayal on its content and the police. According to that report, it says, “to some Negroes, the police have come to symbolize white power, white racism and white repression” (Kerner). Ironic as it seems, even law enforcement was identified as racially intimidating figures themselves. If there was clear, concrete evidence on why the riots happened, then it should be a simple problem to solve, and the issue shouldn’t linger for the future. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case; according to the report, they claimed that “[the

The riots helped bring a change to the community for the African Americans because before the riots they didn't have a voice, any protest or march they did didn't receive attention. When the riots happened, they got the attention that they were searching for. The communities were said to be too "poor" to care about them. In the article Sandy banks publish it said "The devastation was heartbreaking, but I understood the rage behind it. Los Angeles had been building to this moment, with years of protests, meetings, and marches that got little attention outside a black community seemed too wretched and too poor to care about." Los Angeles was going to have a breakout sooner or later due to the little attention put for the communities that were in need. The communities felt that with Rodney King, they finally had a voice. For the community Rodney King was their voice because of him the people

The main causes of the Chicago Race Riot are very significant to how it all started. According to Tuttle’s book, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 there are three main causes that all relate to the starting of the violent outbreak. The first cause all started at 29th street beach. There at the beach, the blacks tried to join the whites, but just the opposite happened (pp.5). The whites did everything in their power to expel the blacks from their beach (pp.5). They did just that until the blacks came back with reinforcement in their numbers causing the whites to leave their beach temporarily (pp.5). This cause basically shows that ever since the blacks fought for their way out of slavery that they were not looked at as equals. The whites still looked at themselves as superiors. They did not show it unless one of the blacks stepped out of line. For example, the incident at the 29th street beach when the blacks tried to swim at the white’s beach. Just by how Tuttle explained that the law was unwritten showed that whites mostly kept it not very public about their feelings until the race riot erupted.

On August 19, 1991, a terrible accident happened, and riots were rampant in Crown Height, Brooklyn. The Crown Height riots of 1991 brought racial and religious clashes between the African-American and Orthodox Lubavitcher Jewish community.

After this the colonist were upset because there needs were not being meet, so they stated violence. The people involved in the riots were the rich to the poor. They all believed they were “righting a wrong” and their actions were appropriate. Lee uses many different examples for this violence for example, “The Enfield Riots the Sugar Creek "War" and The Stamp Act riots” In many cases the authorities would compromise with the rioters to correct their dilemma.

According to Harper?s? sources, white sailors begin to join in on the brawl thus further escalating it, while a black man runs to a nearby club and announced that a group of white men had raped and killed a black woman and her daughter. As this rumor spreads, a white group began spreading their own rumors by incorrectly informing others that a white woman had been assaulted. Thus, the destruction that ensues from this riot is simply the product of rumors. According to Baldwin, the same can be stated about the Harlem riot. A rumor is spread of a black soldier being shot in the back and killed, thus incensing the crowds (Baldwin 81). While this is not the truth, it sufficiently ignites the fury of Harlem.The majority of the fighting in the Detroit riot takes place in the valley which is the black

In 1967 many were arrested for crimes they did not commit during these riots and many were shot, killed, or injured simply because of police hostility towards the African Americans. Many would argue that the police acted recklessly during these riots that were sparked, since many of the victims were unarmed African Americans, while others would argue that the African American started the riots. Regardless of who started the riots, African Americans or law enforcement, the police shot and killed innocent civilians that had didn’t have to do with any of the looting or beatings from

The Nika Riots is an important topic to the Byzantines and their ways of society. Famous chariot races were held in the Hippodrome, which was a very popular form of entertainment in the Constantinople. Supporters and fans fill up the Hippodrome are identified by their colors, either blue or green, which are the colors of their teams. In this fanatical enthusiasm, they would shout out ‘Nika’, or victory and conquer, for their teams. However, with clashing opinions, it was obvious that these fans would start up a few fights or two. As this disrupts the daily lives of the Byzantines, the emperor, Justinian does something about this. He punishes the leaders of the Blue and Green fractions for the violent clashes between them. However, this only

According to Daniel J. Myers, a riot is a disruptive collective act of violence that is momentary, happens outside of everyday life, and results in damage to property or harm to individuals involved either directly or indirectly in the collective action (2013, p.3929). Despite the term having a formal definition, determining precisely what constitutes a riot is not an easy task. Drawing the line between collective acts of violence and riots is challenging and is done by most social scientists by intuition. During the 1960s, the act of rioting in the United States was associated with race-related collective actions in urban areas. Most riots involved a confrontation between police and African-American citizens, mostly young men (Myers, D. J., 2013, p. 3930). Nowadays, the term “riot” encompasses

A perspective on this question comes from Anna Deavere Smith’s film Twilight: Los Angeles 1992. Smith explores different dynamics of the tragic and well-known historical event, the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Los Angeles riots instigated when an African American named

The media, government and individuals have different views on the riots, and what the causes were that contributed to it. Whatever the reasons were, the fact that this event happened

Many of the riots and fights with races are caused because of some type of incident that has happened.Recently there was a race riot in charlottesville August 12th 2017.White nationalists planned this for a while.killing a 32-year-old woman. Some 34 others were injured, at least 19 in the car crash. During the early 1900s, a black teenager was drowned by a man and the police refused to jail the man.That caused a chain reaction with many black and

The trigger for the Tulsa riot was the arrest of a black man for allegedly assaulting a white female in an elevator and an inflammatory article that was published in a white newspaper. Greenwood residents feared a lynching and so gathered in front of the courthouse where he was held, to protect him from a lynch mob. While a deputy was trying to disarm an armed black man, a shot was fired, and this triggered the riot. The National Guard units, the law enforcement officers and the men deputized by Tulsa officials worked together to control what they termed as a Negro uprising. The whites invaded the black Tulsa community, looting and burning their properties and preventing any rescue operations because they saw that such behavior had been legitimized. The black Tulsa was turned into a mass of black clouds of smoke.