2010

On July 24, 2010, 21 people died in a mass panic at Loveparade in the German city of Duisburg. Over 650 were injured. But when the trial ended in 2020, all 50 defendants were acquitted.

Kalief Browder was arrested at 16 in 2010 for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent three years at Rikers Island without trial because his family couldn't afford bail. Two years were in solitary confinement. His tragic story triggered historic reforms of the American bail system.