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Here is something I have learned from my research<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hinton |first=Elizabeth |title=America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion since the 1960s |publisher=Liverright Publishing Corporation, |year=2021 |isbn=9781631498909 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>

The '''Lockefield Garden Riot''' occurred on ...., 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was the first major civil disturbance in the city. [[Mayor of Chicago|Mayor]] [[Levi Boone]], a [[Know Nothing|Nativist]] politician, renewed enforcement of an old [[local ordinance]] mandating that [[tavern]]s be closed on Sundays and led the city council to raise the cost of a [[liquor license]] from $50 per year to $300 per year, renewable quarterly.<ref name="eoc">{{cite web | last = Einhorn | first = Robin | title = Lager Beer Riot | work = Encyclopedia of Chicago | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 2004 | url = http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/703.html | access-date = 2007-07-04}}</ref> The move was seen as targeting [[Germany|German]] immigrants in particular and so caused a greater sense of community within the group.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=Mitrani |first=Sam |title=The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 (Working Class in American History) |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2013 |ISBN=9780252038068 |pages=33}}</ref>