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! . . ; . Industries: in 2005 for the employed population 16 years and older the leading industries in the Miami area were Educational services health care and social assistance which accounted for 18% and Professional scientific and management and administrative and waste management services which accounted for 13% of the population. In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation, Notable alumni The airport is American Airlines' primary gateway to Latin America (Central America Caribbean Sea / West Indies islands South America) along with a domestic hub for its regional affiliate American Eagle in the U.S..A it also serves as a focus city for Avianca Frontier Airlines and LATAM both for passengers and cargo operations in the past it has been a hub for Braniff International Airways Eastern Air Lines Air Florida the original National Airlines the original Pan American World Airways ("Pan Am") United Airlines Iberia Airlines and Fine Air, FDOT GIS data accessed January 2014. .

Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II. 2000s: a new era Since late 2001 Downtown Miami has seen a large construction boom in skyscrapers retail and has experienced gentrification[citation needed], Miami Florida Business directory, Miami International University of Art & Design (private).