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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...
Many cyclists insist the decision to wear a helmet is a matter of personal freedom. "A motorcyclist should be able to feel the wind through his hair if that's what he wants," says Wayne Thomas of the California Motorcyclists Association. But the price of such freedom can be high not only for the individual cyclist but for society at large. A study of 105 bike-accident victims hospitalized in Seattle during 1985 found that of the $2.7 million they incurred in medical bills, 63% was paid for out of public funds. Says John Cook of the Insurance Institute...
More than 1000 bikers from the U.S. and Canada attend the blessing--and Booth has been there among them to photograph the procedings for the past four years. Last year, the bikers gave a prize to the motorcyclist who traveled the farthest to reach the New Hampshire event...