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TAMPA, Fla.--After several days of claims and counter-claims, the attorney for Dwight Gooden and representatives of the Tampa Police Department are trying to find a way to cool things off following the New York Met pitcher's arrest and scuffle with police officers Saturday night...
...York Times and Daily News reported yesterday that Tampa Police Chief Donald Newberger met Wednesday with attorneys for Gooden and Gary Sheffield, one of the others arrested in the incident...
...What we did today," Newberger told the Daily News, "was to get all sides together and try to get this back on an objective keel. Too many emotions have been involved. This has not been good for Dwight Gooden, the city of Tampa or the Tampa Police Department...
...Gooden, his attorney and several witnesses have charged that police used excessive force in arresting Gooden and four of his friends, though no formal complaint has been filed...
What has been most embarrassing for the police was the "inadvertant" release to the media of Gooden's blood-test results...