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“From Captain Marshall Franks point of view, the highway shootout was a presumed anomaly. Miami had seen nothing like it before. The idea that criminals would take such extraordinary risks in public again was nonsensical.not even the finest homicide detective can determine a pattern from a single instance, but in retrospect, Miami was about to pose new problems and new questions for the rest of America to consider.”

“Within the year, drugs would become a part of the national conversation. Immigration would evolve into a virulent topic in South Florida as race was recognized in Miami. Dade county not only witnessed what the New York Times called the worse racial disturbances of the century but would behold something entirely new: enough Latin Americans suddenly spilling into a city to turn both black and white citizens into minorities.”


The year was 1980…..

THE YEAR of

DANGEROUS

DAYS

RIOTS, REFUGEES,

and

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MIAMI 1970
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