Detroit Riots 1967

[@1994g0]

Downtown and Midtown Detroit, led by billionaire dan Gilbert, is improved.Much improved.But the Detroit neighborhoods and the schools are still crime ridden and very dangerous.

[@MiPolska-em3ty]

Its getting better. I live a block down from where the Algiers Motel Incident happened. It's nice now, it's going to take time but it will get there.

[@50hellkat2]

Detroit was a very affluent place to be back in the day....motor city baby....motown, for many...black or white .... it was not this memory but it is now. My uncle lived in St Clair Shores....i remember this...very sad times.

[@dondressel452]

Should have never let foreign cars into our country

[@motowngirl5891]

I live in SCS still, our family was driving up north to go on a vacation, we saw the NG on the other side of i75, my father said something is wrong, we didn’t know what was happening, we were up north for 2 weeks, they were headed back to graying went we were headed back home

[@palepride7530]

@@dondressel452Did you just blame the Honda Accord for the Detroit riots?!? 😆

[@dondressel452]

@@palepride7530 hell yea lol

[@50hellkat2]

@@motowngirl5891 I do not get what you are saying.

[@jpmugishapps]

It all begins again

[@joejones5653]

I was born in Detroit and I remember this like it was yesterday. particularly the snipers. Some hoodlum would torch a building and when the fire department showed up to fight the fire, snipers in apartment buildings would take shots at the firemen.

[@elove2.038]

Thats horrible

[@wesleypowers]

Anything to back this up.?

[@exercisecanbehealthy]

@@wesleypowers Back it up? They'll shoot at anything with flashing lights even today.

[@doriandenard5846]

Who were the snipers?

[@Classic63]

This is excellent footage !! Thanks for posting!

[@mrniceguy3344]

Economist Thomas Sowell pointed out that Detroit had the highest rate or Black home ownership and the lowest rate of Black unemployment... the riots were the cause of Detroit's decline, not the other way around.

[@ccth22]

I remember the first time I went to the “D” and I could feel the history. Then I went to the Motown museum and was blown away. I believe so many factors came into play why things went downhill. But I believe many didn’t want the city to achieve with so much black prosperity.

[@danielwalton8172]

Detroit is still a great city it's ashamed what happen and what it is today.

[@mobetter25]

Here, After Minneapolis Riots.Same old Shit.

[@subcitizen2012]

You know why the riots happened, right? Right...?

[@st.apollonius5758]

All this destruction and violence over the raiding of a unlicensed bar. unbelievable.

[@smoke369x]

St. Apollonius fyi the riot was well under way before the raid took place. Incidentally, this raid resulted in 3 Men killed by Detroit White Police Officers.

[@willpower3317]

@@smoke369x the riot was not “well underway”-by what metric have you determined that?

[@Moonlight.Melon.Mounter]

It’s not as simple as that

[@bobfaam5215]

It was protest against KKK lynchings .

[@kimborbs]

@@bobfaam5215is that a fact? please post proof that this wasn’t an organized riot perpetrated by communist insurrectionists.

[@dondressel452]

What happens to black people living in the ghetto is a tragedy Our government needs to focus on our own people and create jobs not send millions to other countries

[@ejhickey]

I was driving to work on the night it started . Headed down Grand River at 11 PM when saw the fires and then my car got hit with some rocks . Did a quick U-Turn and headed home. Saw it get worse the next day and me and my family left town. scary times

[@r.pres.4121]

You and your family not only left town you also moved out of town for a safer saner locale.

[@MotherOfCivilization317]

Hope you didn't move to another racist-created poverty model

[@ilovedumas]

Thank you for posting this footage👏🏾 I'm 67 I grew up on Euclid and 12th and lived on Edison and Byron when the riots began. I remember tanks being parked on our street,sniper shots from a roof on Tuxedo. We had mattress parties in case of stray bullets . What a time it was ✌🏿

[@sgerardschulte7691]

+NanaBanana Hi Nana, yes it was scary...

[@FIVEOFEVER]

Do you realize how heavy a .50 cal machine gun is? WTF did he get the ammo? Another KZbin bullshitter LMAO!

[@WImob420]

Checkm8king2 you can buy one legally today, if you fill out right paperwork and have the cash ;)

[@gregwrangler2800]

Checkm8king2 It was the 1950's and he drove it right across the Windsor bridge from Canada under a tarp mounted to his jeep in full uniform. We didn't have the retarded liberals in this country back them and people like you never left the safety of their mother's basements!

[@immybiggestassetbleedatt2803]

Nina Pena

[@giovannicenturione1299]

This really takes one back in time, right there in Detroit that summer of 1967.

[@KingRoseArchives]

I didn't mean to offend and understand why you call what happened a Rebellion and not a riot. I chose to label this the "riot" since I wanted to reach the widest audience possible and assumed that most people who were searching for a film on this subject would use that term. I should have included that in the description. Maybe I should change the title? Interested in your thoughts.

[@DesolationYT]

historically it's called the Detroit riots. No need for an apology what so ever.

[@philliesphan312]

A rebellion is substantive not destructive. Whatever the reasons it was the worst strategy to confront bigotry by the police. A lot of innocent people were hurt by this. Was the city declining already probably and auto industry doomed inevitably. But this made business not want to invest. Mans bigotry towards other will never go away or be understood.

[@adamclark9004]

It was a riot

[@50hellkat2]

@@philliesphan312 The city was not declining.....what? Not in my mind.

[@doriandenard5846]

​@@50hellkat2it was declining since 1951. Auto Industries started investing in the landfill areas: the surrounding suburbs and the White and Black realtors rejoiced. New housing stock to overcharge for and older, city houses to overcharge Black folks. Follow all the money....who were the snipers? What business suddenly "caught on fire"? Everything in this country is distracted by division of any kind and money is the motivation to keep the masses distracted.

[@snakes3425]

It makes this all the more heart breaking. In the end it was something that never should've happened to begin with, it's even sadder when people chose to declare Detroit as not being worth saving. Every city that gets hit with riots like this deserves a chance at redemption, a chance to learn form the mistakes that led to the carnage, otherwise 43 people died for nothing.

[@bascet1]

snakes3425 So they deserve somebody else come in and build and replace everything that was mindlessly ruined and burned, so that they can do it again? Please!!

[@dkk5]

Tell the same thing to the owners who’s businesses were destroyed during the BLM riots of 2020. No business is dumb enough to come back!

[@50hellkat2]

The time to give up is never. Property developers are read funded by foreign investors to buy these properties and develop them. These riots are just a free wrecking crew for foreign billionaires.

[@willpower3317]

I just have a question: Hypothetically, how much “racial injustice” would it take for you to burn down your OWN house?

[@subcitizen2012]

What do you think the cops are doing when theyre strangling a man in the street in broad daylight on camera? Burning down their own house? Alright then...

[@andrewkehn944]

The audio delay is from the fact that 8mm and 16mm captures the audio several seconds or frames after the film begins to roll at a different location in the camera itself. Hence the well know phrases of "roll cameras" a pause and then "action" as audio is given time to track with picture. 1967 technical limitations should not be fuel for conspiracy theories.

[@cmag5474]

Andrew Kehn I

[@rascal0175]

I lived through this. It would take a book to tell the tale. What I remember best was the Army arriving at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. While the aircraft were being unloaded the military commander on-site was interviewed by the media. Video tape or film was shot of the interview. The commanding officer was asked if he had what it would take to stop the rioting in Detroit. The camera panned to an aircraft unloading towed artillery pulled by Jeeps. The commander said, to the best of my recollection, “Gentleman, I have what it takes to remove Detroit.” The federal troops had brought the tools to wage war.

[@SupernovaX72]

I love that quote! Thanks for sharing. I’ve been trying to learn more about Detroit just for random ancestry stuff.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@50:50 The national guard was at the other cities borders. Tanks and all.

[@fairypixieprincess9909]

Thank you so much for sharing! This gives so much insight into that time.

[@kathleenstanley6751]

12 St. is now a vacant boulevard. Open a new tab and Google Earth "12th St. and Seward. View south on 12th. You will see a church steeple. In this footage at 49:48 the church steeple is visible, and 12th Street is a bustling business avenue. It doesn't exist now. All that commerce, gone. That world disappeared. Now it's an avenue with virtually no traffic. How bizarre.

[@user-tq1tf6hh9w]

You better go take a drive by 12th (Rosa Parks Blvd) and Clairmount. The area has been redeveloped and looks nothing like it did prior to or immediately after the riots.

[@The_Beautiful_1_has_come]

LOL, You're obviously clueless, how well it looks over there... Beautiful area and subdivisions! Shame Shame on you Katty, stop fibbing!

[@TheDaddynate]

That's what happens when you leave a million people who were just out of Jim Crow laws and slavery wasn't even 100 years in the rear who had no economic power or leverage to re-open or fix businesses.

[@willpower3317]

@@TheDaddynate and what about the booming black middle class? Did racism just skip over them?

[@TheGoodfellas1990]

excellent footage, thank you

[@KingRoseArchives]

kevin stellar You're welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@TheProtagonist2020]

What happened at the motel?

[@zepps88]

Whoa I didn't know Mitt Romney's dad was the governor of Michigan back then,

[@Cerieous]

Thank you. Watching this 1967 Detroit Riot video footage was really an enlightening composite of different scenes and testimony that hints at the tone of racial tension existing at the time.

[@Dennis-sq2nm]

Those who don't know their history r doomed to repeat it. Seeing it now. Minneapolis set to become the next Detroit.

[@lindamazzella1295]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@subcitizen2012]

Extremely ironic statement. Police brutality and systemic racism keeps getting swept under this very rug. STILL. Detroit's was a racist powder keg built up over decades. And Minneapolis, could say the same, but that happened because George Floyd got strangled in broad daylight, on camera. Stop being racist and learn the actual history, and maybe people will stop rising up against such injustices. DONT whitewash the history even more. Learn the lessons of history so it can stop repeating...

[@ElGrenas805]

Never forget the Detroit and Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.

[@truefamilyunitprods]

at 5:30 i love the guy in the back .. he's like what a whole lot of bullshit..

[@robertbiondo]

When the police and national guard was overwhelmed the 82nd Airborne showed up with tanks and 50 caliber guns on jeeps . Orders were shoot to kill anything that moved in the night. They got Det under control in three days. No news teams were aloud in the city during that time. I was 11 years old and lived just downriver.

[@zillsburyy1]

is that romney?

[@RADIUMGLASS]

The city never recovered and never will.

[@KingRoseArchives]

There is a lot of activity in the city now. I wouldn't count out Detroit. But there are many difficult issues stemming from generations of poverty made even worse as manufacturing jobs moved out the tax base collapsed. There are pockets of growth and vast areas of devastation.

[@Scramboe]

Yeah the city is recovering

[@classyguy1712]

Detroit is ASS

[@Scramboe]

classy guy Your name is ASS

[@Scramboe]

***** Bruh The city is good

[@Spillers72]

Isn't that governor Mitt Romney's father? You can see and hear the family resemblance.

[@ilovedumas]

Also on the footage you will see William M Tibbs Real Estate that was my step -fathers business

[@ckratzet5286]

So glad daddy moved us out in '66. Only had curfews in the pointes.

[@leosiwicki2013]

Almost 60 years later and the city still hasn’t recovered. Sad 😢

[@tvelis513]

82nd Airborne at Selfridge ANGB. Didnt know that. Great historical video.

[@bascet1]

I was in the British Army and served in Northern Ireland and if there was a sniper about the guy sucking on his cigar slap bang in the middle of the road would of had his head blown off in around 1.5 secs!!! There were also groups of about 10 National Guard stood together? Another no-no ! That's a snipers dream! You have 4 bodies who find cover, one hard targets to the next cover whilst being covered by the other three and so on and so on, it was called a brick or 4 man brick. I'm surprised that more National Guard and Coppers weren't shot dead but the snipers here wasn't as experienced as the IRA who a lot served in the British Army previous to shooting at us!! Can't believe people say the sixties were full of peace and love? What a load of fucking shit! They were violent as fuck!! Vietnam, Race Rebbellions all across the USA, Manson, Altamont, British Troops back into Ireland and resurgence of the IRA, yeah peace and love!!!

[@gennyfer93]

I can't hear anything

[@Kane615]

That's some nice footage, was it restored or was it just conserved properly?

[@KingRoseArchives]

Thank you for watching. Hasn't been restored but we keep all of our films in a controlled environment.

[@dannydaw59]

I saw 2 interesting things: The striking similarity between George Romney and his son Mitt, and every block appears to have a business with no abandoned storefronts. Way too many dry cleaners by the way!

[@johntheman2006]

Thanks for uploading this fella.

[@anahatabalance]

burn down Babylon...

[@christophergwin1986]

Thanks for uploading

[@thedetroitrebellion]

Both riot and rebellion apply (depending on who you talk to). You may reach more with riot. But we're just adding another voice to the discussion. No offense taken or given.

[@palepride7530]

Would you consider yourself biased?

[@sugarismagic]

can't wait for the movie detroit to come out

[@robertowarren7007]

I was 16. I worked at a grocery store across the street from the Algiers Motel

[@Biscuit1973]

Detroit Had It Very Bad Back In 67’ since I wasn’t born & living in that city then but I’ve watched a movie called Detroit a couple of years ago which had the story unfolding & I remember seeing Police arresting people from an after hours drinking club and all before the incidents had started .

[@leosiwicki2013]

The end of the beginning and it is still going on. Yes the center has been revived and it took a guy from the suburbs together the city some respect again.

[@larrybee7713]

LOVE my Detroit City. Area code 313 to the 248 all day!

[@sjh9173]

Man, Detroit needs this kind of control today. Actually, we needed it in the eighties and nineties.

[@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars]

Can't hear anything 👍♐♐♐♐♐♐♐

[@thedetroitrebellion]

The Detroit Rebellion of 1967, some call it a riot.

[@leosiwicki2013]

Many call it a riot even the black people being interviewed. Then after came the real crooks Coleman Young and the Kilpatricks

[@0fficiallwill]

Now ain't shit on Dexter 😂

[@patton9]

national guard?? why they have 82nd airborne patch? I though active army cannot be mobilized under the posse comitatus act?

[@battleax86]

patton9 The Constitution and the Insurrection Act of 1807 authorize the President to use federal troops in the event of an insurrection, which would supersede the Posse Comitatus Act. President Johnson declared an insurrection shortly before midnight on the second day of rioting and sent in both the 82nd and 101st.

[@terryharris516]

+patton9 if the governor asks the army can be sent there. Or, and this is tricky, to enforce constitutional law. Such as Eisenhower did to desegregate the schools in Little Rock Ark.

[@4eva68]

Thanks for posting.

[@c.michaelaustin2268]

Would like to use some footage of this video for a song by a Detroit blues artist. What is your criteria for usage?

[@KingRoseArchives]

+Carl Austin Need to contact: Their knowledgeable and friendly staff will be glad to assist you. They are located in the New York metropolitan area, just 9 miles from midtown Manhattan. Global ImageWorks, LLC., 65 Beacon Street Haworth, New Jersey 07641 For footage requests email us at: [e-mail] For research inquiries email us at: [e-mail] For clearance inquiries email us at: [e-mail] For corporate information email us at: [e-mail] telephone: [phone] fax: [phone]

[@Kbrac38]

and this is hot detroit got its look today..

[@mebeasensei]

Did the Detroit riots and its ensuing media coverage indirectly have an effect on the perception of the Vietnam war?

[@KingRoseArchives]

+TommyTwobats Can't really say. The riots did add to the perception that the country needed to get tough on crime. Which bolstered the Republican party's message.

[@mebeasensei]

Right, and so in a way helped Nixon's campaign a little.

[@KingRoseArchives]

+TommyTwobats Can't quite make the cause and effect argument but I would agree that this did add to the white backlash that helped elect Nixon.

[@raultiangson5666]

King Rose Archives Van Jones remember him a radical ally of Obama a whitelash and some people challenged him on that and that shut him up quickly it was such a weak argument on Pres Trump by the way since Trump is a work in progress do you think He would turn out to be Nixon or Reagan we arestill on the halftime in the game

[@ruthannjohnson1640]

Destroyed your own neoghnorhood.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Couldn't agree more.

[@n64wilbert]

Raw footage

[@DickThicky]

Interesting choices of what was captured and shown by whoever that put this together back then....very interesting.

[@KingRoseArchives]

This is a compilation of the out takes from the TV news camera crews. It's the raw footage that they shot. It is pretty interesting. We hear gunfire but don't see anyone being shot. It is interesting.

[@DickThicky]

Hey why does the audio go in and out? Is there stuff being silenced purposely or just some problem with it being old. I just finished my last exam for my Michigan History class earlier today and the last chapter vaguely covers this. It almost seems as if no one in these clips knows why this is happening. Is there no interview of those expressing why the rioting is taking place? Or is that by design? I wonder. As a native Detroiter born in the 70's I find it's history quite interesting. So many cultures and so much culture to be found, but such an inability to bring that diversity together. Everyone stays in their respective areas, but occasionally mingle together at jobs, clubs, etc. but then everyone enjoys certain aspects of each others culture. Its weird. Thanks for the upload! I swear Mitt Romney sounds just like his dad lol

[@KingRoseArchives]

***** Just some technical issues with the original. No censorship. This is all the material I have. Would recommend reading John Hershey's "Algiers Motel Incident." Thanks for watching.

[@andrewloner8294]

Wow😔

[@alisstapiia5407]

Acto racial cubierto en un juicio racial que concluyó en un veredicto racial

[@TheBassquatchHunter]

can I use a few seconds of footage from the riots? do you own that footage? thank you

[@anthonygrillo388]

What a shame that they did the Detroit such a long time ago what a shame

[@genissefranklin796]

Where's the sound?

[@marshalastovall4270]

So what was the real reason why the rebellion started in the first place? And not that BS reason that's been told either by Wikipedia. I'd like to know the real reason.

[@gregorypostell901]

@@danoaks959 and what's is white culture I mean you are such a authoritarian on culture what's your people culture would love to know the Genocidal killing ways if caucasian Race......foh...?

[@willpower3317]

Envy

[@vergespierre4271]

@@willpower3317 Yup detroit was one of the black meccas of the nation. many well to do "black" business owners and the other side(illegal) black wealthy people. they gave the key to the city to sadam hussein in 1984- no coicidence hence us having the highest population of middle easterns worldwide

[@subcitizen2012]

"...riot is the language of the unheard." - MLK Jr.

[@X-hoshaq-X]

What a shit box, then and now

[@pistongreg]

Police harassment and brutality started the 67 Detroit riot.

[@gordonlumbert9861]

Rioting is more tolerated now.

[@KingRoseArchives]

Not really but many of the problems that sparked the riot, or insurrection, as some call it, still exist.

[@MotherOfCivilization317]

Dr. Umar Johnson talked about Detroit Riots in his video of our people up until the 1970s and MLKing

[@Strasnilo]

To je bio pocetak kraja amerike, ali oni nece da potonu sami vec povlace ceo svet sa sobom u propast. Policija je tada izgubila sva ovlascenja kada je morala da gleda crncine kako pale i pljackaju a oni ne smeju da reaguju.

[@anthonypistoia5825]

make a trade ... give evry black family 1 million dollars in exchange for no more rap and no more saying the n. word.... a fair deal ... hey for one million I would give up gambling

[@destinyrobinson9235]

Well we didn't create the n word anyway. And as far as rap goes it's a lot of white people trying to steal that from us. So the trade sounds like bullshit to me.

[@omalone1169]

they should have dropped abomb in my opinion I mean the looting and damages were so overwhelming

[@jameshogan1677]

if you're going to make a video lease get your sound right

[@TARRS1]

James Hogan if you're going to leave a comment, at least get your grammar right.

[@MortalCassie]

lololololololol.

[@TempoDrift1480]

This is how the cameras worked back then, Dumbass.

[@timofeegraaay8165]

People are so damn stupid, they actually think we had cam video recorders and all the electronic things available now in 1967. Dude, this was as good as it got back then. 8mm and 16 mm film, not video and sound was not always even available. Some really stupid idiots. Why don’t they have video of the Gettysburg Address? Duhhhhh.

[@bansheeba84]

#DEARBLACKPEOPLE: THIS AINT AFRICA!

[@migueld8970]

africans dont do that ish.

[@enco2683]

Black Pill I swear this is how racism starts With dumb idiots like this fool