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* OneWordTitle
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OneWordTitle: The title is simply ''Detroit'', the name of the city where the events of the film (and the real historical events) are set. Also doubles as ThePlace.



* YouDidntSeeThat: Towards the end of the film, Krauss demands that a man tell him that he doesn't see the two dead men lying on the floor of a room. When the man refuses to deny their presence, he becomes victim #3.

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* YouDidntSeeThat: Towards the end of the film, Krauss demands that a man tell him that he doesn't see the two dead men lying on the floor of a room. When the man refuses to deny their presence, he becomes victim #3.#3.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Krauss shoots an unarmed looter and fails to understand that he did anything wrong.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Krauss shoots an unarmed looter and fails to understand that he did anything wrong.wrong when he learns the man he shot died from his wounds.
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* HeroicBSOD: Larry becomes a nervous wreck after the Algiers Incident, to the point that he paralyzes in fear whenever he sees a white person.

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* HeroicBSOD: Larry becomes a nervous wreck after the Algiers Incident, to the point that he paralyzes in fear whenever he sees a white person.person and avoids good-paying gigs at clubs because of his distrust for the police.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]''Film/{{Detroit}}'' is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/JohnBoyega, Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/AnthonyMackie.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]''Film/{{Detroit}}'' is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/JohnBoyega, Creator/NicholasHoult Creator/WillPoulter and Creator/AnthonyMackie.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]''Film/{{Detroit}}'' is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/AnthonyMackie.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]''Film/{{Detroit}}'' is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/JohnBoyega, Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/AnthonyMackie.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]''Film/{{Detroit}} is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/AnthonyMackie.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]''Film/{{Detroit}} "]]''Film/{{Detroit}}'' is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/AnthonyMackie.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots at police prompts the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby Algiers Motel, searching for the shooter and the gun.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"I need you to survive the night."]]In "]]''Film/{{Detroit}} is a docudrama and the third collaboration between director Creator/KathrynBigelow and writer Mark Boal. It stars Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/AnthonyMackie.

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the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots at police prompts the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby Algiers Motel, searching for the shooter and the gun.

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* InterrogatedForNothing: The people caught by the police in the Algiers are tortured and asked to tell who shot at the police and where is the gun. Most of them do not know who shot because they were in another room when Carl shot at the police with a toy gun. Moreover, there is no real gun to be found.



* TortureAlwaysWorks: {{Deconstructed}}. It really doesn't work when [[spoiler: you're looking for a gun that never existed - so certain cops simply use it as an excuse to start killing people in the motel. Also, there is the fact that all of the suspects became terrified due to the torture, actually making their job even harder, though the cops never seem to realize this]].

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* TortureAlwaysWorks: {{Deconstructed}}. TortureIsIneffective: It really doesn't work when [[spoiler: you're [[spoiler:you're looking for a gun that never existed - so certain cops simply use it as an excuse to start killing people in the motel. Also, there is the fact that all of the suspects became terrified due to the torture, actually making their job even harder, though the cops never seem to realize this]].
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* LawEnforcementInc: Private security companies were hired to protect stores during the riot, with the police being occupied. Dismukes was a guard for one, shown protecting a store with two others.
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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Krauss grows to like Melvin for his respectful, honest demeanor, despite being a virulent racist. Melvin does ''not'' appreciate the sentiment.

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* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Krauss grows to like Melvin for his respectful, honest demeanor, despite being a virulent racist. Melvin does ''not'' appreciate the sentiment.sentiment.
* YouDidntSeeThat: Towards the end of the film, Krauss demands that a man tell him that he doesn't see the two dead men lying on the floor of a room. When the man refuses to deny their presence, he becomes victim #3.
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* FakeKillScare: The cops make the people they're interrogating believe they've killed some of them, to make the others talk. It doesn't work though.

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* FakeKillScare: The cops make the people they're interrogating believe they've killed some of them, to make get the others talk. talking. It doesn't work though.work.

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* FakeKillScare: The cops make the people they're interrogating believe they've killed some of them, to make the others talk. It doesn't work though.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Krauss is polite, soft-spoken, and forgiving... as long as he's not in control of the situation. The moment he gets even the slightest bit of power, it immediately goes to his head and he reveals his true self as a cruel, sadistic bully.



* FauxAffablyEvil: Krauss is polite, soft-spoken, and forgiving... as long as he's not in control of the situation. The moment he gets even the slightest bit of power, it immediately goes to his head and he reveals his true self as a cruel, sadistic bully



* RabidCop: Krause and his two cronies. During the riot, they encounter real incidents of lawlessness and respond with vastly disproportionate force to the point that they can only be viewed as murderers themselves.

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* RabidCop: Krause Krauss and his two cronies. During the riot, they encounter real incidents of lawlessness and respond with vastly disproportionate force to the point that they can only be viewed as murderers themselves.



** Krause's superior officer is disgusted by his antics and recommends that he be charged for murder in his first shooting. He then sweats confessions out of two of Krause's cronies and has the perpetrators of the Algiers incident tried for murder.

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** Krause's Krauss's superior officer is disgusted by his antics and recommends that he be charged for with murder in his first shooting. He then sweats confessions out of two of Krause's Krauss's cronies and has the perpetrators of the Algiers incident tried for murder.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Krauss shoots an unarmed looter and fails to understand that he did anything wrong, and then proceeding to get off with a slap on the wrist when he explained his side of the story.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Krauss shoots an unarmed looter and fails to understand that he did anything wrong, and then proceeding to get off with a slap on the wrist when he explained his side of the story.wrong.



* RiddleForTheAges: What happened to the starter pistol? Cops and tenants both search the house for it, but don't find it, and the epilogue states that it was never found. This is truth in television, as several tenants claimed that Carl Cooper had a starter pistol and it, nor any real gun, was found in the house.

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* RiddleForTheAges: What happened to the starter pistol? Cops and tenants both search the house for it, but don't find it, and the epilogue states that it was never found. This is truth in television, as several tenants claimed that Carl Cooper had a starter pistol and it, neither it nor any real gun, gun was found in the house.
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* KickTheDog: Krause is established as a dangerous, trigger-happy and racist cop when he shoots a looter in the back with a shotgun.

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* KickTheDog: Krause Krauss is established as a dangerous, trigger-happy and racist cop when he shoots a looter in the back with a shotgun.

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