Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.
Sanitation workers are seen at work on the streets of Paris. Shopkeeper carries large can of garbage to a trash collection truck on the street. Trash collectors pose behind their truck. Garbage truck drives along the Champs Elysee, with crew riding on back door. They are escorted by Paris policemen on bicycles. They pick up more trash at a stop, where they pause, as police wave people past them. The Arc de Triomphe can be seen in background.
Views of a vintage 1930s New York City police car on a busy street of Manhattan, New York City. At start of clip, the Columbus Circle statue of Columbus can be seen in distant background as car heads possibly down 59th Street and then down 7th Avenue. A policeman driving the car, and another cop sitting next to him looking out through the window. People walking on sidewalks, cars parked at the sides of road. Other 1930s vehicles on road including cars, taxis, trucks, and buses. A horse-drawn wagon or carriage is also seen. A corner shop with sign "Primadora" is seen. Near end of clip the car passes a Madison Square Garden entrance advertising the "National Horse Show. November 4 through November 5. International Military Jumping every night."
Japanese schoolboys carry rifles and weapons out of Police Station in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan after the end of World War II. They load weapons into a truck. An Allied soldier watch the boys loading weapons into the truck. Scene of market. Board reads Chichibu Police Station.
A squad of soldiers of the 103rd Regiment, 43rd Infantry Division enters the Police Station. United States Lieutenant and a soldier hold meeting with local officials in the Police Station. (World War II period).
Police parade during the funeral of Ernst Reuter, the first Governing Mayor of Berlin. Large crowds gather for the funeral. Policemen holding the coffin of Ernst Reuter. A man addressing. Family members seated on chairs.
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