RACE RIOTS Failure of Man's Court System - Stanley R Rader & Jeff Calkins - October-November 1980

Stanley R Rader & Jeff Calkins

"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" - Ecclesiastes 8:11. The Miami, Florida, riots of last spring were the worst outbreak of racial violence in 13 years in the United States. Fifteen people died. Both blacks and whites were set on, beaten-in some cases mutilated. More than a hundred million dollars worth of property was damaged. And what ignited it all? The failure of man's court system to punish those who were guilty of murder! The riots are testimony to failure of man's system of criminal justice. They are a result of the truth of Isaiah's prophecy: "Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter" (Isaiah 59:14). The Miami riots began May 17, after an all-white jury acquitted four white police officers, two of whom were Hispanics, of bludgeoning to death a black insurance salesman, Arthur McDuffie. As the rioters took to the streets, they chanted his name. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library