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Article: Riddick Bowe-Golota melee angers father, sons beaten by N.Y. police
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- August 2, 1996
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Penni Roberts
Philadelphia Tribune, The
08-02-1996
Riddick Bowe-Golota melee angers father, sons beaten by N.Y. police. officers
Well-known civil rights leader, political activist, and social satirist Dick Gregory has asked the Attorney General of the United States, Janet Reno, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the police beating of two of his sons at New York's Madison Square Garden. In a published letter to Reno Gregory wrote, "My wife and I want to know why our sons were attacked, arrested and denied their civil rights. I ask you to vigorously investigate the criminal and unjustifiable attack upon our sons' civil rights and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of ...