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<text id=89TT3297>
<title>
Dec. 18, 1989: American Notes:Miami
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 49
American Notes
MIAMI
Breaking the Cycle
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<p> Miami was prepared for the worst as the trial of police
officer William Lozano, charged with killing two unarmed black
men last January, came to an end last week. Their deaths sparked
three days of burning and looting. Twice before in the 1980s,
riots followed the acquittals of white or Hispanic police
officers charged with killing blacks. As police were suiting up
for more trouble, a jury of three whites, two blacks and one
Hispanic broke the cycle of violence by convicting Lozano on two
counts of manslaughter.
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<p> While another flare-up was averted, reaction to the verdict
split along Miami's racial fault lines. Hispanics said the
officer was being sacrificed to appease blacks. But in the
Overtown ghetto, the site of January's worst rioting, some
residents marched in celebration. "This is what the black
community has been waiting for," said Overtown resident Alice
Johnson, 43. "Justice."
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