Looters in custody
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Looters in custody

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Looters in custody

July 24, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 22.9 x 17.8 cm (9 x 7 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 25.4 x 20.6 cm (10 x 8 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0351.0024
Inscriptions recto (printed): (DT23) DETROIT, July 24-LOOTERS IN CUSTODY- A policeman a guitar and / a portable television set accompanies another armed policeman as they / escort two rioters caught looting a Detroit store to jail in Detroit / today. Looting and firebombing was widespread in the city today and / President Johnson ordered 5,000 Federal troops into the area to help / quell the two-day rioting. (AP Wirephoto) (h22005F-P) DETROIT LOCALS OUT

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