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The Glenville shootout was a gun battle that occurred on the night of July 23–24, 1968, in the Glenville section of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.Gunfire was exchanged for roughly four hours between the Cleveland Police Department and the Black Nationalists of New Libya, a Black Power group.
Samuel Jesse Battle (January 16, 1883 – August 7, 1966) was an American police officer and one of the first African-American New York City Police Department officers, sworn in on March 6, 1911. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Wellington Schuyler, a native of Flushing, NY and a Civil War veteran of the Eleventh US (Colored) Heavy Artillery, won unanimous support ...
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 Transit train returning from San Francisco , BART Police officers detained Grant and several other ...
I have watched police officers work with compassion and grace in extremely difficult circumstances, both during my time living in Cleveland and teaching in Cleveland schools as well as while I ...
The Cleveland Police issued Glock Model 22 .40 had "CLVLNDOHPD" which was short for Cleveland Ohio Police Department and the pistols before the Glocks had the same agency markings which were issued through the 1990s until around 2003 which were the Smith & Wesson 5943, which is a variant of the Smith & Wesson 5906. Tasers, OC pepper spray and ...
The first African-American to join the New York City Fire Department was William H. Nicholson, who joined in 1918. [3] Williams joined on January 10, 1919, and he was assigned to Engine Company 55 in Manhattan, New York City. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1927. [8] Chief Wesley Williams leads the Vulcan Society contingent thru Harlem during ...
A Webster native and Cleveland police officer shot and killed in the line of duty Thursday morning was the son of a man who survived one of the Rochester region's darkest days in recent memory ...
First African-American women appointed as police officers: Cora I. Parchment at the New York Police Department (NYPD) [127] and Georgia Ann Robinson, by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) [128] First African American to direct a feature film : Oscar Micheaux ( The Homesteader )