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In 1980, the Volaré/Aspen cars were replaced with the front-wheel drive Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries for the 1981 model year. [ 13 ] However, a new class of the F-platform emerged as the M-Body vehicles that included the Dodge Diplomat and Plymouth Gran Fury four-door sedans , which were very similar in structure, size, and engineering ...
The 1980 Miami riots were race riots that occurred in Miami, Florida, starting in earnest on May 18, 1980, [1] following an all-White male jury acquitting four Dade County Public Safety Department officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie (December 3, 1946 – December 21, 1979), a Black insurance salesman and United States Marine Corps lance corporal.
After the accidental police shooting of a man in an Overtown video arcade, a riot broke out in the neighborhood. Cars were burned, businesses were looted, and police were shot at. Ivey Kearson, director of the Overtown Jobs Program, said of the riot's cause "unemployment in the area is 50 percent or higher."
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The 1982 Overtown riot was a period of civil unrest in Miami, Florida, United States, from December 28 to 30, 1982.The riot was caused by the shooting death of an African American man in the city's Overtown neighborhood by a Latino police officer on December 28, leading to three days of disorder that resulted in one additional death, numerous injuries and arrests, and widespread property damage.
Hide in Plain Sight (1980) – drama film based on an actual case from the files of New York attorney Salvatore R. Martoche who represented Tom Leonard, a real-life Buffalo, New York, victim who had sued to recover contact with his children estranged by the culpability of the new husband and government, soon realizing his own past is coming ...
Prison film [98] Raising Arizona: Joel Coen: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson: United States: Crime comedy [99] Rampage: William Friedkin: Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell: United States [100] A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieślowski: Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz: Poland: Crime drama [101] The ...
This group also includes victims of such violence, including white people who were attacked for trying to help black people win equal rights in the civil rights movement. It is NOT for incidents of violence in which the victims just happened to be Black or African American coincidentally.