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Article: Police flood streets to quell Benton Harbor riots Leaders plead for an end to violence as residents say they can't get justice
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 19, 2003
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BENTON HARBOR, Mich.--Hundreds of police officers--many of them in
riot gear, armed with semi-automatic weapons and tear-gas launchers--
took to the streets of this city Wednesday to try to keep the peace
after two nights of riots sparked by the death of a motorcyclist in a
crash while being chased by police.
"Let's don't destroy our city," City Commissioner Steve McCoy
said, pleading for calm. "This is our city. When it's all said and
done, it's going to take us to put it all together again."
More than 300 police officers from Benton Harbor, neighboring
communities and the Michigan State Police filled the streets late
Wednesday near the site of the earlier riots. They patrolled in
groups of ...