The Haynes' report, as summarized in the New York Times, lists a race riot as taking place on July 11.

A small group of soldiers from Fort Meade (one paper says 4, another 7) were walking near Eastern avenue and Spring street when a bottle was thrown from a house hit one of them.

An hour later they returned "with fifty or sixty more" and began shooting at any black person they encountered.

[2] The six men arrested were ordered to pay small fines by Magistrate Gerecht in Baltimore's Eastern Police Court.

[2] These confrontations were among numerous incidents of civil unrest that began in the so-called Red Summer of 1919.