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Community Leaders Press for Federal Oversight of NYPD

HeadlineMar 21, 2000

Community leaders and politicians have stepped up demands for federal oversight of the New York Police Department in the wake of the police shooting of an unarmed African-American man. Yesterday, the Reverend Al Sharpton met with Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. Sharpton says he urged Lynch to impose a federal monitor in brutality cases. New York Congressmember Charles Rangel wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno about the same thing.

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