The Nation : Miami Victim’s Family Asks for Calm

As his family made televised appeals for calm, blacks gathered to bury one of two men killed in an incident that sparked race riots in the Miami area. Police meanwhile said many of those arrested in the uprising would be kept behind bars until after today’s Super Bowl. About 150 people entered the Cathedral of St. Mary for the funeral of Allen Blanchard, a passenger on a motorcycle whose driver was shot last Monday in the Overtown neighborhood by a Latino police officer. Police were chasing the motorcycle for a traffic violation. Blanchard, 24, died of injuries suffered when the motorcycle crashed. Driver Clement Lloyd, 23, who was killed by a shot to the head, will be buried Monday. Riots touched off by the shooting left one man dead, and 11 others were treated for gunshot wounds. Thirteen buildings were torched and others looted in two black neighborhoods, and 372 people were arrested.