Biography
Raymond Peoples was one of the "Livernois 5," five young Black men swept up in a Detroit police dragnet after the July 1975 Livernois–Fenkell rebellion and charged in the death of Marian Pyszko, a white autoworker killed by a crowd during the unrest. The uprising had erupted when Andrew Chinarian, the white owner of Bolton's Bar on Livernois Avenue, shot 18-year-old Obie Wynn in the back of the head in his parking lot — a killing for which Chinarian ultimately served only six months on a misdemeanor charge of careless use of a firearm. As the city demanded answers for Pyszko's death, police rounded up young Black men who could be tied to the area; the five defendants were held for about eleven months and tried three times before all of them were acquitted and released.
