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...force has angered many blacks, who resent the services and attention given to Cuban immigrants by city officials. The shooting of Johnson by Alvarez, a Hispanic with only 21 months on the force, inflamed this sore spot. Miami officials also note that he and his partner, Louis Cruz, 22, had left their assigned patrol area and gone to the video-game parlor on their...
...Overtown violence began at a neighborhood video-game arcade on 14th Street. Tall, skinny Nevell ("Snake") Johnson, 20, was playing a game called Eagle after work. Just past 6 p.m., two uniformed Miami policemen, Luis Alva rez, 32, and Louis Cruz, 22, came in on their own to scrutinize the place and its 30 patrons, almost all of them young blacks...
Alvarez, who was a car salesman un til he joined the Miami police in 1981, has prompted many complaints from Miami citizens and five departmental investigations. Cruz, his partner, graduated from the police academy only last month...
Despite such spirited eruptions, Jobs was still uncertain, displaced, curious. He graduated, dropped acid for the first time ("All of a sudden the wheatfield was playing Bach") and lived with his first serious girlfriend in a small wooden house along the Santa Cruz Mountains. As the summer ended, he headed for Reed College in Oregon. His father recalls what must have been a familiar litany: "He said if he didn't go there he didn't want to go anywhere." Jobs lasted only a semester but hung around the campus wandering the labyrinths of postadolescent mysticism and post-Woodstock culture...
...first was Banker Arturo Cruz, who resigned in November 1981, after the Sandinistas imprisoned five local entrepreneurs for criticizing government economic policy...