Post Aquittal Rioting

    You will occasionally hear the Traybots threatening riots if Zimmerman is not convicted while uttering such phrases as "no justice no peace" and Florida will burn. This is nothing new from the ignorant and uneducated racebaiters and in fact it is a well established pattern of behavior by them.

Race Riots in the United States in the 20th and 21st Century

1900: Robert Charles Riots

1900: New York City, New York

1906: Atlanta Race Riot[40]

1906: Brownsville, Texas

1907: Onancock, Virginia

1908: Springfield Race Riot of 1908[41]

1909: Omaha, Nebraska anti-Greek riot

1917: East St. Louis Riot[42]

1917: Chester, Pennsylvania

1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1917: Houston Riot

Red Summer of 1919

1919: Washington, D.C.

1919: Chicago Race Riot of 1919[43]

1919: Omaha Race Riot of 1919

1919: Charleston, South Carolina

1919: Longview, Texas

1919: Knoxville Riot of 1919

1919: Elaine Race Riot

1921: Tulsa race riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma)[44]

1923: Rosewood massacre (Rosewood, Florida)[45]

1927: Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot[46]

1928: Wenatchee Valley Anti-Filipino Riot[46]

1929: Exeter Anti-Filipino Riot[47]

1930: Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riots, which inspired race riots in San Francisco, Salinas and San Jose and attacks elsewhere.[47]

1935: Harlem Riot of 1935

1943: Detroit Race Riot[48]

1943: Beaumont Race Riot of 1943

1943: Harlem Riot of 1943

1943: Zoot Suit Riots

1946: Columbia, Tennessee Riot

1951: Cicero Race Riot in Illinois

1958: Battle of Hayes Pond (Maxton, North Carolina)

1963: Cambridge riot of 1963 (Cambridge, Maryland)

1964: Harlem Riot of 1964 (Harlem neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City)

1964: Rochester riot (Rochester, New York)

1964: Philadelphia 1964 race riot (North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

1965: Watts Riots (Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles, California)

1966: Division Street Riots (Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois)

1966: Hough Riots (Hough community, Cleveland, Ohio)

1966: North Omaha, Nebraska (North Omaha community, Omaha, Nebraska)

Long Hot Summer of 1967

1967: Tampa Riots, (Tampa, Florida)

1967: Texas Southern University Riot (Houston, Texas)

1967: 1967 Detroit riot (Detroit, Michigan)

1967: Buffalo riot (Buffalo, NewYork)

1967: Milwaukee Riot (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

1967: Minneapolis North Side Riots (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

1967: 1967 Newark riots (Newark, New Jersey)

1967: Plainfield riots (Plainfield, New Jersey)

Protests of 1968

1968: Orangeburg massacre (Orangeburg, South Carolina)

1968: Nationwide riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968: Baltimore riot of 1968 (Baltimore, Maryland)

1968: Chicago (April 1968) (Chicago, Illinois)

1968: Louisville riots of 1968 (Louisville, Kentucky)

1968: 1968 Washington, D.C. riots (Washington, D.C.)

1969: 1969 York Race Riot (York, Pennsylvania

1969: Stonewall riots (Greenwich Village neighborhood, Manhattan, New York City, New York)

1970: May 11th Race Riot (Augusta, Georgia)

1970: Jackson State killings (Jackson, Mississippi)

1971: Camden Riots (Camden, New Jersey)

1972-1977: Escambia High School riots (Pensacola, Florida)

1980: Chattanooga Riot (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

1984: Lawrence, Massachusetts Race Riot: A small scale riot centered at the intersection of Haverhill and railroad streets between working class whites and Hispanics; several buildings were destroyed by Molotov cocktails; August 8, 1984.[49]

1991: Crown Heights riot (Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York)

1992: Los Angeles Riots (Los Angeles, California): In a reaction to the acquittal of all LA police officers involved in the videotaped beating of Rodney King and the murder of Latasha Harlins; riots broke out mainly involving black youths in the black neighborhoods and shop owners in Korean neighborhoods, but overall riotiing was mainly to get out the frustrations of the racial groups over the racial tensions that were building in the South Central Los Angeles area for sometime[citation needed].

1996: St. Petersburg Riots (St. Petersburg, Florida): After Officer Jim Knight stopped 18 yr. old Tyron Lewis for speeding, his car lurched forward causing Knight to fire his weapon, fatally wounding the black teenager. Riots broke out and lasted for about 2 days.

2001: Cincinnati riots (Cincinnati, Ohio): In a reaction to the acquittal of Steven Roach after the fatal shooting of an unarmed young black male, Timothy Thomas, during a foot pursuit, riots broke out over the span of a few days.

2003: Benton Harbor riots (Benton Harbor, Michigan)

2005: 2005 Toledo Riot (Toledo, Ohio): A race riot that broke out after the Neo-Nazi protest marched through a black neighborhood.

2006: Fontana High School riot (Fontana, California): Riot involving about 500 Latino and black students[50]

2006: Prison Race Riots (California): A war between Latino and black prison gangs set off a series of riots across California[51][52]

2008: Locke High School riot[53] (Los Angeles, California)

2009: 2009 Oakland Riots (Oakland, California): Peaceful protests turned into rioting after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, by a BART transit policeman.