200 March Against Police Brutality
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
About 200 protesters marched on the Justice Department, demanding that the federal government do more to track and punish police brutality, before joining a hearing where victims of alleged police misconduct told their stories to members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Despite the swift response by authorities in the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant hospitalized since an alleged attack Aug. 9 by New York City police officers, protesters complained that most often allegations of police brutality go ignored.
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