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Philadelphia police dropped a bomb from a helicopter and killed 11 people in the United States

39
years ago

13 May 1985,

The Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter and killed 11 people in the United States. There was a shooting between activists from the environmental movement and the police for the release of black people called Move.

The activists took refuge in a house and continued with the police that surrounded it.

In the end, they were disproportionately bombed from a helicopter and destroyed 61 houses. Among the deaths were five children.

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Source:

Alan Yuhas, Philadelphia’s Osage Avenue police bombing, 30 years on: ‘This story is a parable’ (The Guardian, 13 May 2015).

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