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Officials examine police performance during riot...
...violence had ended in Miami's mostly black Overtown neighborhood, but racial tensions remained high last week. On Saturday, some 1,000 mourners buried Nevell Johnson, 20, whose killing by a Miami policeman ignited two days of rioting. City officials were so worried about more trouble that they persuaded the family to cancel a planned funeral procession from the video-game parlor in which Johnson was shot to services in Liberty City, site of a black riot in 1980 in which 18 people died...
...competence is high, although some city officials liken him to General George Patton because of his tough talk and brusque manner. Indeed, Harms lived up to that image by refusing to make mollifying statements that might ease the friction between police and blacks. "The police did not cause the riot," said Harms, who blamed "200 to 250 hoodlums" for the "robbing, looting and torching...
...square-mile heart of Overtown was sealed off, reopened, then closed again. Police helicopters hovered over head. On Wednesday, with the neighbor hood edging toward a full-fledged riot, 250 police, most armed with shotguns, swarmed in once again. Many acted in discriminately: one shopkeeper was clubbed and another was mauled by police dogs. The mobs they faced were amorphous, but sometimes 500 strong...
...garrulous, chain-smoking Walesa, who has been uncharacteristically subdued since his release from detention, had intended to deliver a memorial speech. Instead, a few hours before his scheduled appearance, half a dozen policemen in full riot gear, equipped with machine guns and crowbars, appeared at Walesa's apartment door. They took him to the local office of the Polish Finance Ministry, where he was interrogated for an hour on alleged financial irregularities in the operations of Solidarity. Walesa was then bundled into an unmarked car by unidentified men and driven aimlessly around Gdansk for eight hours. The reason...