The Move Bombing in Philadelphia

In may 19 85, philadelphia brings in 500 militarized officers armed with flack jackets, swat gear, 50 caliber machine guns and an anti tank rifle. The cops move in to serve arrest warrants on folks that they believed were living in the compound. A nine of the members of move were convicted of third degree murder and sent to prison after this. And it did start a fire that spread very quickly to roofs of other homes clustered around the move building. In forty five minutes, three more houses had been burned down by police gunfire. Then the roof of the move house collapsed. It famously made it easy for trees to leap from the streets into burning trees.