The police were frequently either the source of the unrest or assisted the rioters during the race riots that occurred in Chicago, Elaine, and Houston.
They encouraged the rioters rather than putting an end to them.
The Houston Riots took place in the spring of 1917 when the Houston police brutally assaulted the members of the black community and also arrested the black soldiers who tried to intervene.
The race riots has been considered as the largest murder trial in in the history of United States of America.
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