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...News of Largey's death caused five successive nights of rioting at Roosevelt Towers. Pharmacist Petricone recalled that youths broke windows at almost every store lining Cambridge Street set cars on fire and spray-painted obscenities on every naked wall. The words "Pigs Suck"--in bright red paint--still adorn a wall on a Towers building fronting Cambridge Street. Residents said the sign is a holdover from the 1972 riots...
...riots surfaced because Roosevelt Towers residents saw Largey's death as one episode in a series of police abuses. Crimson interviews taken during the week of riots showed most residents were upset that police and city officials were slow to uncover the full story of the Largey incident...
Medical examiner Dr. Charles R. Robinson issued a preliminary autopsy report that showed "absolutely no evidence" that Largey's death was "caused by physical injuries." Angry citizens called the report a "whitewash...
...actual cause of death became even less certain on November 9, 1972, when a second autopsy, performed by Dr. David Spain at the request of the Largey family, found "conclusive evidence of injuries to the head and extremities...
...Largey family, represented by Cambridge attorney Michael J. Haroz, filed a $1.1 million damage suit in federal court against the four patrolmen and their supervisors, Pisani, Lt. Anthony Temmallo, Sgt. Alphaeus Yetman and Police Chief James F. Reagan. The suit, filed February 21, 1973, also named then-City Manager John H. Corcoran as a defendant...