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...immediate step the police should take to improve community relations is to proceed with speed and impartiality in next week's department hearings for Officers Francis Burns and Robert Ahern, two policemen accused of beating Clarence Anderson, a black man, on July 11. A demonstration that the department can "police itself" and provide citizens with a viable course of redress for police misconduct is essential if public faith is to be restored...
Defense attorneys Robert Wise and Barry H. Gerstein, representing Officers Francis Burns and Robert Ahern, said they sought to suspend the hearings because they are now arguing other cases in court...
...witness accounts of the incident cleared Hallice of involvement in the alleged beating and implicated Officer Ahern, whom Anderson later accused of assault and battery...
...police investigation committee instructed to look into Anderson's charges presented a report written by Officer Francis Pisani to Police Chief James F. Reagan on September 30. A source close to the case said October 11 that the unreleased report recommends "disciplinary proceedings be initiated" against Burns and Ahern...
Homans said Anderson may file a case in federal court for violation of civil rights. Homans discounted the possibility of a suit for damages against Burns and Ahern...