Word: overtown
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...Miami is usually happy and carefully orchestrated, a prelude to the Orange Bowl parade and the big college football game it self. But the madness in Miami last week was grim and unexpected. Three days before the floats and marching bands rumbled up Biscayne Boulevard, the down-and-out Overtown section, just five blocks south of the parade route, erupted into spasms of street combat after a young black man was killed by police. By the time the pillaging and mob assaults ended, a second person had been killed by police, more than 25 people had been injured...
...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...