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Arrests so overwhelmed the jails and holding facilities of the city that prisoners were loaded by bus to Belle Isle, an island park on the Detroit River. They were held in the bathhouse and lavatories until they too were overflowing with detainees, then locked in the buses that had delivered them to the site; remaining there for days. There was little food or water made available. Judge George Crockett, of the Recorder’s Court, determined to insure that civil liberties were extended to the prisoners - held court on the Island - most of the cases were dismissed.

Joe’s Record Shop, owned by Joe Von Battle, was one of the businesses ultimately destroyed in the ‘67 Rebellion. The business was founded in 1945, on Hastings Street, and Battle sold records and recorded artists - including John Lee Hooker, The Reverend C. L. Franklin and Aretha Franklin - based in the Hastings Street store, until 1960, when the street was razed in order to build the Chrysler Freeway. Battle, along with other business owners on Hastings St., moved to 12th Street, where his shop operated until the events of July 23, 1967. Joe’s Record Shop and much of the stock within - including innumerable tapes and recordings of artists - were ruined, and Battle was unable to reopen; the building was destroyed in the period after the unrest.