KOFY Matter Of Fact With Soledad OBrien September 4, 2017
Buildings destroyed. Detroit, 1967. A city in flames. A lot of the smoke was right up in here on 12th street, which is what it was called then. Soledad disturbances began on 12th street, since renamed rosa parks boulevard. They started spotaneously after a routine police raid on an illegal bar, or what locals called, a blind pig. Dan mckane was a young street cop in detroits tactical mobe unit. Soledad how would you have described the Detroit Police department in 1967 . Dan well, it was majority white male. Soledad Loretta Holmes was in that blind pig that night, to welcome back soldiers comin...