Early reports detailed injuries to police officers and a Chicago fireman.
It should be noted that some police officers were beaten in retaliation for unjustly beating then innocent citizens.
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The majority of the rioting, murder, and arson was the result of white ethnic groups attacking the African American population in the city's Black Belt on the South Side.
Although this is true, there were also events where whites were attacked or killed in this area just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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The Cook County Sheriff deputized between 1,000 and 2,000 ex-soldiers to help keep the peace.
Doesn't note that some of these ex-soldiers were African-American and therefore there were incidents where African-Americans were attacking each other.
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white police officer not only failed to arrest the white man responsible for Williams' death
Does not mention how a black officer originally wanted to arrest Stauber, but was stopped by the white police officer.
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white man
Doesn't mention the man who killed Eugene Williams by name: George Stauber.
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injuries attributed to the episodic confrontations stood at 537,
I found the terms "episodic confrontations" was an interesting way to refer to the mob beatings that happened during the riot.
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violent racial conflict
This article calls the riot a "racial conflict", which is a term I have not heard when referring to the race riots, although I think it is an accurate description of the events in Chicago.
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