Earlier today, American History tv was live from detroit to look back 50 years. Our guests joined us at a Detroit Free Press room to talk about what happened and why and to answer viewer questions. This is about two hours. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. 50 years ago today, riots erupted in the city of detroit, michigan, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar known locally as a blind pig. Five days later, 43 people are dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson sent 5000 federal troops. Property damage was estimated at more than 30 million. The affected areas still bear the scars of the riots today. Green spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by professor Heather Ann Thompson a detroit editor. Ss we will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets,
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Working to notify relatives and also working to determine how they died. Reporting live in berkeley, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you. And developing news in hayward, democrats are looking for the gunman who killed a teenager last night. It happened on princeton street around 7 00. Police responded to reports of gunshots and found the 16yearold dead. Deputies havent released any details on suspect or possible motive. The Alameda County Sheriffs Office wants any witnesses to give them a call. An 18yearold tracy woman is still missing this morning and chp plans to shut down busy niles canyon road to pull her car out of the water. Investigators think her body is inside. Pwork today. Ill be there as they she drove into Alameda Creek after hitting another car on saturday. The water, though, has just been too rough for divers to enter so crews have been searching from the ground. It was actually her family who helped locate her car. One of the family members picked up a rock and threw it
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Overturned tombstones, they got here and got to work. When this happens here well respond, we dont stand idly by well do something about it. The our cemetery, its very overwhelming. We are all together. Christina torres saw the story on the news and brought her son to help out in any way they could. Feel that whether this is so much hate we have to show how much love there is. The Philadelphia Police and federation assembled this afternoon to condemn the vandalism and offer information about the progress of the investigation. We have increased patrols in the area and proactive measures like extra lighting and cameras and checking area cameras for video that may show the offenders leaving the location. Reporter the official award stands at 15,000 leading to an arrest. Police add they did find forensic evidence namely fingerprints. Im sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. All right sara, thank you. Pennsylvania state Police Arrest aid collegeville man for allegedly recording activity i