In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police begin evacuating people from their Osage Avenue homes in order to prepare for an operation against MOVE, a Black separatist group that had assembled a large arsenal. By the end of the botched confrontation, 11 people were dead and 61 homes had been burned down.
The roots of the 1985 incident date back to 1978 when a confrontation between MOVE and the police left Officer James Ramp dead. Several innocent MOVE members were convicted of murder, enraging other members. Leader John Africa began a counterattack on Christmas Eve, 1983. At the MOVE headquarters at 6221 Osage Avenue, members set up several loudspeakers and began shouting profanities at their neighbors. Even more ominously, MOVE began assembling a cache of weapons and building bunkers in their row house.
Everything came to a head in May 1985 when Mayor W. Wilson Goode ordered police to raid the MOVE headquarters. Authorities soon realized that there was very little they could do to remove MOVE members from their entrenched position. At about 5:30 p.m. on May 13, a bomb was dropped on the roof of the building in an attempt to destroy their bunker. This proved disastrous, as the roof was covered with tar and gas, and a blistering fire broke out.
It took the fire department an hour to begin extinguishing the fire. By this time, it was raging out of control. In the ensuing chaos, six adults and five children inside the MOVE home were killed. By the time the fire had been contained, nearly an entire block of homes in Philadelphia had burned down.
Much like the Waco, Texas, raid of the Branch Davidians eight years later, the government came under heavy criticism for their harsh handling of the confrontation. In 1986, a jury awarded $1.5 million to three survivors of the MOVE raid.
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Niggaz in da hood
Waco precursor,you can disagree/hate the move people but the insane tactics engaged by the govt. are worse then the move people.
We had just moved into Bucks County a short drive from downtown Philly. I was completely enamored with the city. Willie Penn’s hat. The Liberty Bell, Dr. J and Billy Cunningham, Steve Carlton, and Mike Schmidt. Pete Retzlaff and Sonny Jurgensen. The open-air south side Italian market. South Street where all the hippies meet. It was a country boy’s first experience with city slicking and I loved it. So now we have a black mayor? Ok, let’s celebrate diversity. Give him a chance. He firebombed his own city? Are you sure this is gonna work out? Write your own ending.
Here’s the ending:
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Many if not most Americans are fat stupid ignorant self absorbed assholes who do not deserve to be saved.
Urban renewal, government style.
No love for MOVE or niggers here but they were just used by Democrats to advance their agenda. Same goes for Branch Davidians and Randy Weaver. The((( communists))) will use and sacrifice anybody. People of TBP avoid militias and other groups like the Proud Boys like the plague
I was at Drexel University and could see the smoke from the fire. It was amazing that they bombed the building.