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I'm Sheila Cook.

On the 17th of May, 1980, race riots erupted in Miami, Florida.

They left 18 people dead, hundreds injured, and millions of dollars worth of damage to property,

after white policemen were acquitted of the killing of an African American man.

I've been speaking to a former police officer and childhood friend of the victim.

We know that we are now at war with people here and keep pushing us around.

We can no longer take it. A policeman called what happened

uncontrolled violence against whites. But blacks attack blacks too. This woman's

husband had been badly beaten. In all, 113 beating cases. The riots broke out after four white police officers

were acquitted of the manslaughter of a 33-year-old black insurance salesman

Arthur McDuffie. He'd been beaten by the police

after jumping a red light on his motor bike. He died in hospital a few days later. The

police had driven over his motor bike to make it look like it had an accident.

I can remember the sergeant who was assigned to internal affairs at the time, walked over to my office and she said to me I need to talk to you

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