"Welcome to Florida" Miami 1980: Riots, refugees and cocaine

Craig and Chadd Scott are joined by Nicholas Griffin, author of "The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980." Griffin's book shares the remarkable, harrowing and history-altering interconnected stories of Cuba's Marielitos, the largest mass migration event in U.S. history, the explosion of the cocaine trade, and the race riots spawned by the acquittal of four Miami-Dade police officers following their beating to death of Black resident Arthur McDuffie, all of which shook Miami to its foundations over a matter of weeks in 1980. #stpetecatalyst 3tampabay #radio #florida #floridahistory #history #radiostpete