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The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. As Philadelphia police attempted to ...
Location of the MOVE house, bombed in 1985 by the police, within Philadelphia In 1981, MOVE relocated to a row house at 6221 Osage Avenue in the Cobbs Creek area of West Philadelphia. Neighbors complained to the city for years about trash around their building, confrontations with neighbors, and bullhorn announcements of sometimes obscene ...
Let the Fire Burn is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directed and produced by Jason Osder and was released by Zeitgeist Films in October 2013.
Philadelphia activist Mumia Abu-Jamal has followed the teachings of John Africa, [11] and was a supporter of the MOVE organization. [12] During Abu-Jamal's 1982 murder trial for the death of a police officer, Abu-Jamal made repeated requests to be represented by Africa.
Polling places and locations where ballots are counted have beefed up security in advance of Tuesday's election, deploying bomb- and firearm-sniffing dogs, metal detectors, panic buttons and even ...
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Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is an American politician and former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985. Goode was also a community activist, chair of the state Public Utility ...
According to a press release from the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, members of the local fire and police departments responded to a fire at a rowhome in the city's Mayfair neighborhood ...