This is a list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on

ethnic An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

sectarian Sectarianism is a political or cultural conflict between two groups which are often related to the form of government which they live under. Prejudice, discrimination, or hatred can arise in these conflicts, depending on the political status quo ...

xenophobic Xenophobia () is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange. It is an expression of perceived conflict between an in-group and out-group and may manifest in suspicion by the one of the other's activities, a ...

, and

racial A race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. The term came into common usage during the 1500s, when it was used to refer to groups of variou ...

conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified as

pogrom A pogrom () is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russia ...

Africa

Americas

United States

Nativist period: 1700s–1860

* 1824:

Providence, RI Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

– Hard Scrabble Riots * 1829:

Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...

–

Cincinnati riots of 1829 The Cincinnati race riots of 1829 were triggered by competition for jobs between Irish immigrants and native blacks and former slaves, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States but also were related to white fears given the rapid increases of free and fu ...

* 1829:

Charlestown, Massachusetts Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Originally called Mishawum by the Massachusett tribe, it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins t ...

– anti-Catholic Riots * 1831: Providence, RI * 1834:

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

– Convent burning * 1834:

Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

– pro-slavery riots * 1834: New York, NY – New York City pro-slavery riots * 1835: Boston, MA – pro-slavery riots * 1835: Five Points Riot * 1835: Washington, D.C. –

Snow Riot The Snow Riot was a riot and lynch mob in Washington, D.C., which began on August 11, 1835, when a mob of angry white mechanics attacked and destroyed Beverly Snow's Epicurean Eating House, a restaurant owned by a black man. This violence, born of ...

* 1836: Cincinnati, OH –

Cincinnati riots of 1836 The Cincinnati riots of 1836 were caused by racial tensions at a time when African Americans, some of whom had escaped from slavery in the Southern United States, were competing with whites for jobs. The racial riots occurred in Cincinnati, Ohio, Un ...

* 1841: Cincinnati, OH – White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. * 1844: Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Nativist Riots * 1851:

Hoboken, NJ Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,690 ...

– anti-German riot * 1855:

Louisville, KY Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...

– anti-German riots

Civil War period: 1861–1865

Reconstruction era: 1865–1877

* 1866:

New Orleans massacre of 1866 The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading t ...

* 1866:

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

, mostly ethnic Irish against African Americans * 1868: Pulaski Riot * 1868: St. Bernard Parish massacre,

St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana St. Bernard Parish (french: Paroisse de Saint-Bernard; es, Parroquia de San Bernardo) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat and largest community is Chalmette. The parish was formed in 1807. St. Bernard Parish is part of t ...

, whites against blacks * 1868: Opelousas massacre,

Opelousas, Louisiana :''Opelousas is also a common name of the flathead catfish.'' Opelousas (french: Les Opélousas; Spanish: ''Los Opeluzás'') is a small city and the parish seat of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. Interstate 49 and U.S. Route 190 were ...

, whites against blacks * 1868:

Camilla massacre The Camilla massacre took place in Camilla, Georgia, on Saturday, September 19, 1868. African Americans had been given the right to vote in Georgia's 1868 state constitution, which had passed in April, and in the months that followed, whites acros ...

, Camilla, Georgia, whites against blacks * 1870:

Eutaw massacre The Eutaw riot was an episode of white racial violence in Eutaw, Alabama, the county seat of Greene County, on October 25, 1870,Shapiro 12. during the Reconstruction Era in the United States. It was related to an extended period of campaign vio ...

Eutaw, Alabama Eutaw ( ) is a city in and the county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The e ...

, whites against blacks * 1870: Laurens, South Carolina * 1870:

New York City Orange Riot The Orange Riots took place in Manhattan, New York City, in 1870 and 1871, and they involved violent conflict between Irish Protestants who were members of the Orange Order and hence called "Orangemen", and Irish Catholics, along with the New ...

* 1871:

Second New York City Orange Riot The Orange Riots took place in Manhattan, New York City, in 1870 and 1871, and they involved violent conflict between Irish Protestants who were members of the Orange Order and hence called "Orangemen", and Irish Catholics, along with the New ...

* 1871: Los Angeles, Chinese massacre. Mixed Mexican and white mob killed 17–20 Chinese in the largest mass lynching in U.S. history * 1871:

Meridian race riot of 1871 The Meridian race riot of 1871 was a List of race riots, race riot in Meridian, Mississippi in March 1871. It followed the arrest of freedmen accused of inciting riot in a downtown fire, and blacks' organizing for self-defense. Although the lo ...

Meridian, Mississippi Meridian is the List of municipalities in Mississippi, seventh largest city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 41,148 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and an estimated population in 2018 of 36,347. It is the count ...

, whites against African Americans * 1891: New Orleans, lynchings of Italians and riot * 1873: Colfax massacre, white Democrats against black Republicans * 1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi * 1874: New Orleans, Louisiana (

Battle of Liberty Place The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection and coup d'etat by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans ...

) After contested gubernatorial election, Democrats took over state buildings for three days * 1874: Coushatta massacre,

Coushatta, Louisiana Coushatta is a town in, and the parish seat of, rural Red River Parish, Louisiana, Red River Parish in north Louisiana, United States. It is situated on the east bank of the Red River of the South, Red River. The community is approximately 45 mile ...

, white Democrats against black Republicans * 1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi * 1875: Clinton, Mississippi * 1876:

Hamburg Massacre The Hamburg Massacre (or Red Shirt Massacre or Hamburg riot) was a riot in the American town of Hamburg, South Carolina, in July 1876, leading up to the last election season of the Reconstruction Era. It was the first of a series of civil dis ...

* 1876: Ellenton riot,

Ellenton, South Carolina Ellenton is a former community that was located on the border between Barnwell and Aiken counties, South Carolina, United States. Ellenton was settled . In 1950 the town was acquired by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as part of a site for ...

Jim Crow era: 1878–1914

* 1885: Rock Springs, WY – Anti-Chinese riot * 1886: Seattle, WA –

Seattle riot of 1886 The Seattle riot of 1886 occurred on February 6–9, 1886, in Seattle, Washington, amidst rising anti-Chinese sentiment caused by intense labor competition and in the context of an ongoing struggle between labor and capital in the Western United S ...

* 1891: New Orleans, LA –

March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings The March 14, 1891, New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and immigrants in New Orleans, Louisiana, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at tr ...

* 1898: North Carolina –

Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d'état and massacre carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, Novem ...

(white Democrats overthrew elected government and attacked blacks) * 1898: Lake City, SC – Lynching of Frazier B. Baker and Julia Baker * 1898: Greenwood County, SC – Phoenix election riot * 1900: New Orleans, LA – Robert Charles riots * 1900: Manhattan, NY – Tenderloin race riot * 1904: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1904 * 1906: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1906 * 1906: Atlanta, GA –

Atlanta Massacre of 1906 Violent attacks by armed mobs of White Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, began on the evening of September 22, 1906, and lasted through September 24, 1906. The events were reported by newspapers around the world, includi ...

(whites against African Americans) * 1906: Brownsville, TX – Brownsville affair * 1907: Onancock, VA * 1907: San Francisco, CA and Bellingham, WA –

Pacific Coast race riots of 1907 The Pacific Coast race riots were a series of riots that took place within the United States and Canada. The riots, which resulted in violence, were the result of anti-Asian tension caused by white opposition to the increasing Asian population duri ...

(anti-Asian) * 1908: Springfield, IL – Springfield race riot of 1908 * 1909: Omaha, NE –

Greek Town riot The Greek Town riot was a race riot that took place in South Omaha, Nebraska, on February 21, 1909, during which several Greeks were wounded or injured. A mob of 3,000 men displaced some of the population of Greek Town, wrecked 30 buildings there ...

* 1910: Nationwide – Johnson–Jeffries riots (anti-black riots following the heavyweight championship victory of Jack Johnson against Jim Jeffries) * 1910: Slocum, TX – Slocum massacre

War and interwar period: 1914–1945

* 1917: East St. Louis, IL –

East St. Louis riots The East St. Louis Riots were a series of outbreaks of labor and race-related violence by White Americans who murdered between 39 and 150 African Americans in late May and early July 1917. Another 6,000 black people were left homeless, and t ...

* 1917: Chester, PA – 1917 Chester race riot * 1917: Philadelphia, PA * 1917: El Paso, TX –

1917 Bath riots 1917 Bath Riots occurred in January 1917 at the Santa Fe Bridge between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Mexico. The riots are known to have been started by Carmelita Torres and lasted from January 28 to January 30 and were sparked by new immigration ...

* 1917: Houston, TX – Houston riot * 1919:

Red Summer Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which Terrorism in the United States#White nationalism and white supremacy, white supremacist terrorism and Mass racial violence in the United States, racial riots occurred in more than three dozen ...

** Washington, D.C. **

Chicago race riot of 1919 The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. During the riot, 38 people died (23 black and ...

Omaha race riot of 1919 The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the lynching of Will Brown, a black civilian; the death of two white rioters; the injuries of many Omaha Police Department officers and civ ...

** Charleston riot of 1919 ** Longview race riot **

Knoxville riot of 1919 The Knoxville riot of 1919 was a race riot that took place in the American city of Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 30–31, 1919. The riot began when a lynch mob stormed the county jail in search of Maurice Mays, a biracial man who had been ac ...

Elaine Race Riot The Elaine massacre occurred on September 30–October 2, 1919 at Hoop Spur in the vicinity of Elaine in rural Phillips County, Arkansas. As many as several hundred African Americans and five white men were killed. Estimates of deaths made in ...

* 1920: Ocoee, FL – Ocoee Massacre * 1921: Tulsa, OK –

Tulsa race massacre The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long massacre that took place between May 31 – June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deput ...

* 1921: Springfield, OH – Springfield race riot of 1921 * 1923: Rosewood, FL –

Rosewood massacre The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people and two whit ...

* 1927: Yakima Valley, WA – Yakima Valley riots (anti-Filipino) * 1928: Wenatchee Valley – Wenatchee Valley anti-Filipino riot * 1929: Exeter, CA – Exeter anti-Filipino riot * 1930: Watsonville, CA –

Watsonville riots The Watsonville riots was a period of racial violence that took place in Watsonville, California, from January 19 to 23, 1930. Involving violent assaults on Filipino American farm workers by local residents opposed to immigration, the riots high ...

(anti-Filipino riot that inspired further riots and attacks in San Francisco, Salinas, San Jose, and elsewhere). * 1935: New York, NY –

Harlem riot of 1935 The Harlem riot of 1935 took place on March 19, 1935 in New York City, New York, in the United States. It has been described as the first "modern" race riot in Harlem, because it was committed primarily against property rather than persons. Harl ...

* 1943: Detroit, MI – Detroit race riot * 1943: Beaumont, TX – Beaumont race riot of 1943 * 1943: New York, NY –

Harlem riot of 1943 A race riot took place in Harlem, New York City, on August 1 and 2 of 1943, after a white police officer, James Collins, shot and wounded Robert Bandy, an African American soldier; and rumors circulated that the soldier had been killed. The rio ...

* 1943: Los Angeles, CA –

Zoot Suit Riots The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place from June 3–8, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residen ...

(white against Mexican Americans and other Zoot suit wearers) * 1944: Agana, Guam –

Agana race riot The Agana Race Riot (December 24–26, 1944) took place in Agana, Guam, as the result of internal disputes between white and black United States Marines. The riot was one of the most serious incidents between African-American and European-American ...

Postwar era: 1946–1954

* 1946: Airport Homes race riots (series)

Airport Homes race riots The Airport Homes race riots were a series of riots in 1946 in the West Lawn and West Elsdon neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago ...

* 1946: Columbia, TN – Columbia race riot of 1946 * 1949: Cortlandt Manor, NY – Peekskill riots (anti-communist race riots against Jews and African Americans) * 1951: Cicero, IL – Cicero race riot

Civil rights and Black Power period: 1955–1977

* 1958: Maxton, NC –

Battle of Hayes Pond The Battle of Hayes Pond, also known as the Battle of Maxton Field or the Maxton Riot, was an armed confrontation between members of a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization and Lumbee, Lumbee Indians at a Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, on the ...

* 1962: Oxford, MS – Ole Miss riot * 1963: Birmingham, AL –

Birmingham Riot of 1963 The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted African-American leaders of the Birmingham campaign. In response, local Africa ...

* 1963: Cambridge, MD – Cambridge riot of 1963 * 1963: Lexington, NC – Lexington riot * 1964: Harlem, NY –

Harlem Riot of 1964 The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan in front of Powell's friends and about a dozen other witnesses. ...

* 1964: Rochester, NY – Rochester riot * 1964: North Philadelphia, PA –

Philadelphia 1964 race riot The Philadelphia race riot, or Columbia Avenue Riot, took place in the predominantly black neighborhoods of North Philadelphia from August 28 to August 30, 1964. Tensions between black residents of the city and police had been escalating for seve ...

* 1965: Los Angeles, CA – Watts Riots * 1966: Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL – Division Street riots * 1966: Cleveland, OH – Hough Riots * 1966: Omaha, NE – North Omaha summer riots * 1966: Dayton, Ohio – 1966 Dayton race riot * 1967:

Long Hot Summer of 1967 The long, hot summer of 1967 refers to the more than 150 race riots that erupted across the United States in the summer of 1967. In June there were riots in Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Buffalo, and Tampa. In July there were riots in Birmingh ...

** June 2: Boston riot (Boston, MA) ** June 11 – 14: Tampa riot (Tampa, FL) ** June 12 – June 15: Cincinnati riot (Cincinnati, OH) ** June 17: Atlanta riot (Atlanta, GA) ** June 26 – July 1: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, NY) ** July 12 – 17: Newark riots (Newark, NJ) ** July 14 – 16: Plainfield riots (Plainsfield, NJ) ** July 17: Cairo riot (Cairo, IL) ** July 20 – 21: Minneapolis riot (Minneapolis, MN) ** July 23 – 25: Toledo riot (Toledo, OH) ** July 23 – 28: Detroit riot (Detroit, MI) ** July 24: Cambridge riot (Cambridge, MD) ** July 26: Saginaw riot (Saginaw, MI) ** July 30: Albina riot (Portland, OR) ** July 30 – August 3: Milwaukee riot (Milwaukee, WI) * 1968:

Protests of 1968 The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, predominantly characterized by popular rebellions against state militaries and the bureaucracies. In the United States, these protests marked a turning point for the ci ...

Orangeburg massacre The Orangeburg massacre refers to the shooting of protesters by South Carolina Highway Patrol officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on the South Carolina State University campus on the evening of February 8, 1968. About 200 protesters had prev ...

(Orangeburg, SC) * 1968:

King-assassination riots The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, were a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Many believe them to be the greatest wav ...

(riots following the assassination of

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

) **

Baltimore riot of 1968 The Baltimore riot of 1968 was a period of civil unrest that lasted from April 6 to April 14, 1968, in Baltimore. The uprising included crowds filling the streets, burning and looting local businesses, and confronting the police and national gua ...

(Baltimore, MD) ** Chicago West Side riots (Chicago, IL) **

Louisville riots of 1968 The Louisville riots of 1968 refers to riots in Louisville, Kentucky in May 1968. As in many other cities around the country, there were unrest and riots partially in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4. On May 2 ...

(Louisville, KY) ** 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.) ** 1968 Wilmington riots (Wilmington, DE) * 1968: Cleveland, OH – Glenville shootout and riot * 1969: York, PA – 1969 York Race Riot * 1969: New York, NY –

Stonewall Riot The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the LGBT community#Terminology, gay community in response to a police raid that began in t ...

* 1970: Augusta, GA – May 11 Race Riot * 1970: Jackson, MS –

Jackson State killings The Jackson State killings occurred on Friday, May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted a group of students outside a campus dormitory. Sho ...

* 1971: Camden, NJ – Camden riots * 1972–1977: Pensacola, FL –

Escambia High School riots Escambia High School is a high school located in Escambia County, Florida, United States. History Escambia High School opened for the 1958–59 school year, and its first graduating class in 1959 was composed of 207 students. A large n ...

* 1972: Coast of

North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; vi, Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), was a socialist state supported by the Soviet Union (USSR) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Southeast Asia that existed f ...

– USS Kitty Hawk Riot (October 12–13) * 1975: Ontario, CA – Chaffey High School race riot enhanced by local sniper

1978 to today

* 1978: Houston, TX – Moody Park Riot (on the first anniversary of Joe Campos Torres' death). * 1979: Worcester, MA – Great Brook Valley Projects Riots (Puerto Ricans rioted) * 1980: Miami, FL – Miami riots (riots in reaction to the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie). * 1980: Chattanooga, TN – Chattanooga riot * 1984: Lawrence, MA – Lawrence race riot (a small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984). * 1989: Miami, FL – Overtown riot (two nights of rioting by residents after a black motorcyclist was shot by a Hispanic police officer in the predominantly black community of Overtown. The officer was later convicted of manslaughter). * 1990: Miami, FL – Wynwood riot (Puerto Ricans rioted after a jury acquitted six officers accused of beating a Puerto Rican drug dealer to death) * 1991: Brooklyn, New York, NY –

Crown Heights riot 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. Th ...

(black anti-Jewish mob killed 2, injured 190). * 1992: Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles riots (riots in reaction to the acquittal of all four

LAPD The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the municipal police department of Los Angeles, California. With 9,974 police officers and 3,000 civilian staff, it is the third-large ...

officers involved in the videotaped beating of

Rodney King Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965June 17, 2012) was an African American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers during his arrest after a pursuit for driving whi ...

, in addition to the Korean involved in the murder of

Latasha Harlins Latasha Harlins (January 1, 1976 – March 16, 1991) was an African-American girl who was fatally shot at age 15 by Soon Ja Du ( ko, 두순자) after Latasha knocked Soon Ja Du to the ground, a 51-year-old Korean-American convenience store owner ...

; riots broke out mainly involving black and Latino youths in the black neighborhoods of South Central LA and in the neighborhood of

Koreatown A Koreatown (Korean: 코리아타운), also known as a Little Korea or Little Seoul, is a Korean-dominated ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area outside the Korean Peninsula. History Koreatowns as an East Asian ethnic enclave have ...

before spreading to the rest of the city) * 1996: St. Petersburg, FL – St. Petersburg riots (2-day riots that broke out after 18-year-old Tyron Lewis was fatally shot by Officer Jim Knight, who stopped Lewis for speeding and claimed to have accidentally fire his weapon). * 2001: Cincinnati, OH –

Cincinnati riots There has been a long history of rioting in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, since the city was founded in 1788. Some riots were fueled by racial tension, while others by issues such as employment conditions and political justice. 1792 The firs ...

(riots in a reaction to the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati police officer Steven Roach). * 2003: Benton Harbor, MI –

Benton Harbor riots The city of Benton Harbor, Michigan, U.S., has had two major riots. 1966 On August 30, 1966, a riot began after a meeting discussing recreational facilities and police relations with respect to black residents. During the riot, a black 18-year ...

* 2005: Toledo, OH – 2005 Toledo riot (a race riot that broke out after a planned

Neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...

protest march through a black neighborhood). * 2006: Fontana, CA – Fontana High School riot (riot involving about 500 Latino and black students) * 2006: California – Prison race riots (a series of riots across California set off by a war between Latino and black prison gangs) * 2008: Los Angeles, CA – Locke High School riotLocke High School locked down after huge brawl
Los Angeles Times * 2009: Oakland, CA – 2009 Oakland riots (peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of

Oscar Grant Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid ...

, an unarmed black man, by a BART transit policeman). * 2014–2015: Ferguson, MO – The

Ferguson unrest The Ferguson unrest (sometimes called the Ferguson uprising, Ferguson protests, or the Ferguson riots) were a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Bro ...

(a series of riots that broke out over the

shooting of Michael Brown On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old male friend Dorian Johnson, who later stated that Brow ...

). ** 2014 August: riots for two weeks after the initial shooting of Brown. ** 2014 November – December: riots for one week after the police officer who shot Brown was not

indicted An indictment ( ) is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In jurisdictions that use the concept of felonies, the most serious criminal offence is a felony; jurisdictions that do not use the felonies concept often use that of an ...

. ** 2015 August: riots for two days during the anniversary of Brown's shooting. * 2015: Baltimore, MD – 2015 Baltimore riots (protests-turned-riots following the

death of Freddie Gray On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African American, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department over his legal possession of a knife. While being transported in a police van, Gray sustained injuries and was taken to ...

, an incident in which a suspect died in police custody) * 2016: Salt Lake City, UT – Riots sparked by the

shooting of Abdullahi Omar Mohamed The shooting of Abdullahi "Abdi" Omar Mohamed occurred in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 27, 2016. Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee, was shot and injured by police after allegedly being involved in a confrontation with another person. Moh ...

. * 2020: Nationwide – 2020 riots (protests-turned-riots that broke out across the US following the

murder of George Floyd On , George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered in the U.S. city of Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer. Floyd had been arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's n ...

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