Racial tensions in Detroit exploded into riots in 1967.

The Kerner Commission Report blamed “an increasingly disturbed social atmosphere” for the unrest.

Arab store owners in Detroit are being killed for and sometimes,” an Arab American engineer told the Arab American News in 2014, with underlying racial tones. A month later, Dearborn Police fatally shot Janet Wilson, a black woman they accused of using her car as a weapon to run over an officer who stopped her.