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Today marks 35 years since the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a West Philly neighborhood, specifically on the house of a Black liberation group called MOVE, killing 11 members, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 people homeless.
On the day of the bombing, the police were sent to the MOVE house to arrest 4 members. When those inside the house refused to respond, the authorities decided to take extreme measures, somehow justifying the use of military grade weapons, despite knowledge of children present.
500 police officers shot 10,000 rounds of ammo at the house. The police commissioner then ordered to bomb the house, with a helicopter dropping a satchel bomb, typically used in combat, onto the roof. After detonation, they let the fire spread throughout the neighborhood.
Despite this event being the only account of an aerial bombing of US citizens on US soil no one was ever prosecuted.
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