Miami's New Days of Rage

Racial violence flares again

The year-end madness in Miami is usually happy and carefully orchestrated, a prelude to the Orange Bowl parade and the big college football game it self. But the madness in Miami last week was grim and unexpected. Three days before the floats and marching bands rumbled up Biscayne Boulevard, the down-and-out Overtown section, just five blocks south of the parade route, erupted into spasms of street combat after a young black man was killed by police. By the time the pillaging and mob assaults ended, a second person had been...