A disputed verdict touches off rioting in Miami
They're guilty! They're guilty! They're guilty!" wailed Mrs. Eula Bell McDuffie in the corridor outside the Tampa courtroom. But an all-white jury had just acquitted four white former Dade County police officers of charges relating to the death of her son, Arthur McDuffie, 33, associate manager of an insurance office, who was fatally beaten last December after an eight-minute police chase for speeding on his motorcycle. News of the verdict flew through the black sections of the Miami area, and within a few hours an angry black crowd gathered outside the Dade...
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