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...usually hung out with friends at the housing project. One night last October, police arrested him for drunk and disorderly conduct (he threw a brick through a store front window) and for assaulting a police officer. According to several eyewitnesses, Largey was beaten by the arresting officer, Peter DeLuca, inside the police paddywagon. DeLuca claimed he hit Largey several times but only in self defense...
Largey's death ushered in a wave of violence in the Roosevelt Towers area. For four successive nights teenage kids rampaged, breaking windows and setting fires, demanding that DeLuca be indicted for murder. DeLuca went on a voluntary leave of absence without pay from the police department...
They were accused of dragging DeLuca from his car and beating him after he stopped for a traffic light in Inman Square. The youths claimed that DeLuca voluntarily got out of his car and that he started the subsequent fight...
...DeLuca recently returned to the Cambridge police force after taking a five-month voluntary leave of absence while being investigated in connection with Largey's death. A grand jury investigating Largey's death last month declined to indict any police officers...
...DeLuca still faces a civil suit by the Largey family and disciplinary action from City Manager John Corcoran in connection with the death. DeLuca recently obtained a temporary restraining order barring Corcoran from holding a disciplinary hearing on DeLuca's case...