Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guardsmen and police from both Miami and Dade County, which surrounds the city, moved into the riot areas in force, the killing pattern changed. Nine blacks were either shot by the officers or struck by gunfire from unidentified sources. Allen Mills, 33, was shot five times by police at a roadblock in the riot zone. The officers claimed Mills had threatened them with a knife. Blacks at the scene contended that Mills was unarmed and had been shot repeatedly in the back. Police claimed that Elijah Aaron had first shot at them, then was killed in the return fire...
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...
Overall, the damage was estimated by local officials at about $200 million, with some 6,000 jobs at least temporarily wiped out. Initial surveys are necessarily hasty, and some store owners inflate estimates for insurance purposes. First reports on damage in the Detroit riot put it at $500 million; it was later reduced to $45 million. Still the Miami riots may turn out to be one of the most costly in U.S. history. Beyond that, some 400 people were injured; four of them remained hospitalized in critical condition. A total of 1,267 rioters were jailed...
...civic leaders invited nationally known blacks to come try to cool the anger. Among them: former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph Lowery and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago. But when Young tried to speak to a post-riot rally of some 800 blacks, he was shouted down and had to leave with a protective escort. "What the hell are you doing here?" one angry black screamed at Young as he arrived for the meeting in Liberty City. "The only time we see y'all so-called leaders...
Burn, baby, burn!" That was the exultant cry first heard in the Los Angeles district of Watts. It marked a historic shift from the era of sit-ins and nonviolent marches, of songs and prayers, to the era of ghetto rioting. The worst outbreaks: New York City, July 1964. At a rally held in Harlem to protest the killing of a black youth by a white off-duty police officer, black leaders denounced the police and called for community action. When the crowd marched to a Harlem police station, scuffles with police erupted into a riot that lasted six days...