Word: motorcyclist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly two years, policeman David A. Magnusson, 27, has patrolled Miami's black Overtown ghetto, where rioting broke out last winter after the shooting of a black motorcyclist by a Hispanic officer. He is a police representative on the panel that is investigating that outburst...
...Caribbean. Last week, for the fourth time in a decade, the melting pot boiled over. On the night of the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the city was preparing to play host to the Super Bowl, a Colombian-born policeman $ shot and killed a black motorcyclist speeding through the streets of Overtown, a ghetto just northwest of downtown. A passenger riding on the rear of the motorcycle was fatally injured in the resulting crash. The incident triggered two nights of arson, looting and random shootings that spread from Overtown to the nearby black ghetto Liberty City...
MIAMI--Angry crowds burned a car and hurled rocks and bottles at police yesterday as violence flared anew after a night of rioting sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black motorcyclist by a white policeman...
...least two buildings and three cars were burned in the rioting, which broke out about two hours after a white police officer shot and killed the Black motorcyclist being chased for a traffic infraction. No damage estimates were available...
...disturbance recalled the bloody 1980 riot in adjacent Liberty City that also was linked to the death of a Black motorcyclist at the hands of white officers. A similar disturbance broke out in 1982 when a Black man was shot to death only a few blocks from where the latest incident began...