On December 17, 1979, Arthur Lee McDuffie, a 33-year-old Black man, former Marine, father of three young children, associate manager of an insurance company, and former musician in the Booker T. Washington High School marching band, was killed by a group of white Metro-Dade police officers after they pulled him over for reportedly running a red light, dragged him from his motorcycle, and beat him into a coma; four days later he died of his injuries in the hospital. The officers tried to cover up the beating by staging it as an accident, but on Christmas Eve one of them turned himself in and reported the truth. In early 1980, the Florida State Attorney’s Office charged six officers, and presiding judge Lenore Carrero Nesbit moved the trial to Tampa because of racial tension in Miami; jury selection began in March, Janet Reno served as lead prosecutor, and on May 17, 1980, an all-white jury returned not guilty verdicts. After the verdicts, Black Miamians protested, with nearly 5,000 people gathering in front of the Miami police department and courthouse downtown, and what began as a silent march turned violent and overwhelmed local police, especially in Liberty City, Overtown, and Brownsville. Governor Bob Graham sent thousands of Florida National Guardsmen to help restore order, and after three days the unrest subsided, leaving ten Black people and eight white people dead and causing more than $100 million in property damage. In 1981, Dade County agreed to pay a substantial settlement to McDuffie’s family to avoid a civil lawsuit, one of the largest settlements in a police brutality case, and the death, uprising, and rebuilding that followed led to efforts to recruit more Black and Hispanic police officers, the creation of the Independent Review Panel for police oversight, and the Miami-Dade Economic Action Plan to promote economic equality for the Black community.