NATION : Panel Meets Over Miami Violence

MIAMI — A panel formed to investigate the slaying that touched off this week’s racial violence met for the first time today as civic and community leaders sought to maintain calm for the Super Bowl weekend.

“We can’t go on having racial disturbances every five years--if this goes on, the whole city is going to burn down,” said the Rev. Richard Barry, chairman of the 11-member panel of police officers and black residents. The board will investigate the death of Clement Lloyd, 23, an unarmed black motorcyclist shot in the head by a Latino police officer Monday. Riots triggered by the shooting left one man dead and seven others shot in two black neighborhoods. Thirteen buildings were torched and others were looted.