Policing & state violence
Philadelphia bombs Osage Avenue
13 May 19856221 Osage Avenue, Cobbs Creek, West Philadelphia, PA
On 13 May 1985 the city dropped an explosive from a helicopter onto an occupied rowhouse in a Black West Philadelphia neighbourhood, then let the fire burn. Eleven people died, five of them children, and sixty-one homes were destroyed.
- People killed
- 11
- People displaced
- 250
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