Actor Courtney B. Vance says one of his earliest interactions with law enforcement occurred during the 1967 Detroit protests for racial justice when, as a 7-year-old child, a soldier 'turned his bayonet' on him.
This tension culminated in a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar on the city's West Side, during which the more than 80 patrons present were arrested. Former Michigan Gov. George W. Romney called in the Michigan National Guard and President Lyndon B. Johnson enlisted the U.S. Army to curtail the protests, which lasted five days. By their end, 43 people had died, more than 300 were injured and thousands of people were arrested.
"My father dying at 30 and dealing with that, but probably the first one was when I was eight and my parents asked me where I was going to go to school," Vance said."And I was going to go to the Catholic school that I was in, and my parents made the decision to take the scholarship. It was not a full scholarship, but it still was going to impact our family very strongly, and send me to a private school, Detroit Country Day and shift my life.
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