Word: mistreat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agry blacks charge that far more than "one or two bums" have used their police badges to mistreat blacks for years. Well after the emotions of many blacks had been vented in the rioting, their bitterness toward police persisted. "It's always a shame when someone gets hurt," said one 58-year-old Miami black man at a post-riot meeting, "but the police are set up to protect white people from their enemies, and that is us." John Conyers Jr., a black Congressman from Detroit, arrived in Miami and charged, "Police started a counterwar. Most of the white...
...often left ingenious. But the Latin renaissance has left blacks in an unhappy third place in the community. Often they cannot get jobs if they do not speak Spanish; they feel, there fore, doubly estranged. Their question presents an almost un answerable grievance: Why does America welcome strangers and mistreat...