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Miles Davis is beaten by police in New York

65
years ago

25 August 1959,

Miles Davis was beaten by police in New York. When he was already making his name in the jazz world, while helping a white woman to take a taxi from a recording, the police arrived and ordered him to go there. Davis told them he was working there and he wouldn't move. The agents beat, beat, beat and arrest with their trunk, according to witnesses, without him doing anything. They had to enter and accused the agents of having attacked. Davis was one of the most important figures in jazz history with other artists. On that night he said: “It radically changed my life and my attitude. When I was changing things in the country and starting to feel good, I became bitter and cynical again.”

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