Act of Retribution.

"It was real bad, I hadn't seen anything like it since I left Vietnam." So went the description by Miami police officer Manny Lopez of a scene of mob violence in the black neighborhood of Liberty City following the acquittal of four white former police officers of charges that they had beaten black busi-nessman Arthur McDuffie to death. Lopez was describing what he found when he arrived on the scene of black mob violence against three young white people, attacked for no reason other than the color of their skin. Michael Kulp, eighteen, was driving a car containing two passengers — his brother Jeffrey, twenty-two, and their friend Debra Getman, twenty-three — through the Liberty City area when the car was struck by bricks and bottles. Michael Kulp lost control of his car and struck Shanreka Perry, an eleven-year-old...