I lived in Miami and S. Fla for many years .. Liberty City is a crime-ridden, terrifying PIT, and the Liberty City riots were horrific ... and guess where I am now: Chicago. God bless the FBI! I'll be glued to the briefing tomorrow.
THE McDUFFIE RIOTS 25 YEARS LATER - IN MAY 1980, MIAMI ERUPTED IN ANGER AND GRIEF WHEN FOUR WHITE POLICE OFFICERS WERE ACQUITTED IN THE KILLING OF BLACK INSURANCE AGENT ARTHUR McDUFFIE
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"Only a sign at 62nd and Northwest 17th Avenue that proclaims ''Arthur Lee McDuffie Avenue'' offers an outward clue to the ferocity that erupted along there 25 years ago, sweeping through the city's black communities with a rage that would cripple Miami for years, even decades.
Four white police officers were acquitted by an all-white jury in the death of McDuffie, a black Miami insurance agent. McDuffie, a former Marine, had been fatally beaten while handcuffed after a police chase by a group of white police officers, who then tried to cover it up as an accident.
The verdict, coming as the black community's relationship with law enforcement reached an all-time low, sent people pouring into the streets. A three-day rampage of fury and grief followed, escalating with frightening speed in Liberty City, the Black Grove, Overtown and Brownsville, killing 18 people, costing 3,000 jobs and causing $100 million in damage.
Kulp, 22, was one of the first victims, a white man stumbling into the disturbance. He was beaten, shot, stabbed and run over by another motorist after a car driven by his brother veered out of control and hit a young black girl on 62nd Street.
''You had very, very angry people on the streets during those years,'' said Robert Simms, director of the Community Relations Board in 1980. 'By the time McDuffie happened, the precedent was set: `When politicians start messing with us, let's get it on.' The verdict was seen as an injustice. And so the riots in 1980 were on.''
VIOLENCE SPREAD
Even with 25 years of perspective, the magnitude is still stunning. Cars burned with victims inside, and black plumes of smoke could be seen 15 miles away. A curfew covered 52 square miles, with lawlessness reaching all the way to the Metro Justice Building downtown, where a rally turned into more rioting. Police cars were torched, the National Guard was called in, and an entire country watched the hellish panorama that was the Miami skyline."
OMG Tx...that JERK Allen is on CNN again.
He is an absurd little man.
Both the men interviewed by Cooper are downplaying the idea that there are many Radical Black Muslims sympathetic to Al Q
GOD now I remember why I don't watch CNN...
Dang...did you just hear on CNN..that they had talked to some people in Chicago but none of them have been arrested..yet.
It's working. The arrested terrorists are Black Muslims
It's working. The arrested terrorists are Black Muslims