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The Nation - News from April 8, 1987

Saying there’s “no quick fix” for racially troubled Tampa, Fla., Mayor Sandy Freeman asked black community leaders to urge calm in the wake of rock- and bottle-throwing triggered by the death of a black man wrestled to the ground by police. The death Monday of Otis Bernard Miller, 35, was the fourth since November of a black man in which white police officers were involved.

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