Incident

Date May 05, 1970
Department Buffalo Police Department
Address Main St
Buffalo, NY

Incident Description

On May 5th, 2,000 students from UB, Buffalo State College Canisius College, and local high school students were tear gassed by the Buffalo Police as they marched down Main Street toward downtown Buffalo. This was the first time teargas was deployed against protesters in Buffalo.

The marchers were protesting the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the killing of four and woundings of ten student protesters at Kent State University. In addition to the four murdered at Kent State on May 4, two people were murdered and twelve were wounded at Jackson State on May 14th, six Black people were murdered and twenty were wounded in Augusta, Georgia, eleven students were bayoneted at the University of New Mexico, and twenty people suffered shotgun wounds at Ohio State.

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