What the records say
- When
- May 1991
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 38.93° N, 77.04° W
- Description
- riot
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1991 Washington, D.C., riot
Protests against police killings
The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
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