Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Mayor Renews Plea for Racial Peace
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Mayor David N. Dinkins for the fifth straight day visited the embattled Crown Heights section of Brooklyn to appeal for peace. Hundreds of mourners meanwhile attended a wake for a black child who died when hit by a car driven by an Orthodox Hasidic Jew, sparking riots. Dinkins told about 1,000 people at a nearby church that the riots mostly have hurt blacks. “The stores that are robbed are our stores, the ones we frequent--and so only the community loses,” Dinkins said. Furious that the Jewish driver in the accident was not arrested, blacks rioted and looted stores. A Jewish man not involved in the accident was stabbed to death.
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