Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the 1943 Detroit race riots.
Brawls started on Belle Isle and then spread to downtown. Thirty-four people died; nine were white, and 25 were Black. Seventeen of the Black people killed were by police.
Watch our feature story on the riots in the video player above.
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