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Amidst Ferguson Conflict, Activists Decry Miami Cop Rehired After Killing Travis McNeil

'There's No Justice In Miami, Either'
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As Ferguson, Missouri, has descended into a nightmarish vision of a dystopian police state, few have watched the growing clashes between protesters and authorities with a perspective quite like Sheila McNeil's. As a young woman in Overtown, McNeil lived through Miami's own version of Ferguson -- the McDuffie riots that tore through the neighborhood in 1980.

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