Seymour Pine

 

 

Age: 91

 

Summary: former deputy police inspector who led the raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village on a hot summer night in 1969 during an event that helped to start the gay liberation movement, but who had apologized in 2004 for his part in the raid that was ordered by his superiors, which sparked several nights of rioting.

 

 

Cause of Death: Natural causes

 

Born: July 21, 1919

 

Died: September 2, 2010

 

Location: Whippany, New Jersey