An incident of police brutality occurring during the Detroit, MI, race riots of 1967, when a report of sniping led the Detroit police to invade the Algiers Motel. During interrogation of the occupants, ten African American men and two white women, three men were shot and killed, while many of the others were badly beaten. The riots themselves had been caused by reports of racially motivated police brutality during the raid on an after-hours club—motivation confirmed in the Algiers Motel incident and in the account of it published by John Hersey in 1968.