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...October 1972, two white youths--Lawrence Largey and Thomas Doyle--were placed under arrest by several Cambridge police officers. Within hours, Lawrence Largey was found dead in his cell. A subsequent autopsy disclosed recently inflicted internal and cranial injuries...
Later that month the City Manager John H. Corcoran appointed Paul J. Liacos, Boston University Professor of Law, as his Special Assistant in order to conduct an investigation of the events concerning the Largey arrest and death...
...third police issue this year is the appointment of a civilian police commissioner--an outgrowth of the Lawrence Largey incident last fall--and civilian review board. Candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's good government organization, and those on the Grass Roots Organization (GRO) slate, generally favor both measures...
...Cambridge social scene can be addressed through the City Council. Upper middle-class and Harvard institutional interests were responsible for and profited from the election of "liberal" Barbara Ackermann as mayor and Duehay as councilman. The liberal response was shown up for what it was, class interest, when Larry Largey died after being beaten by Cambridge cops last fall. The first-ever mass mobilization of East Cambridge citizens in an angry march to the Council had no effect--the two cops are still on the beat. Simply stated, the interests of "the people" are no better served by local politicians...
Corcoran recently called the City's failure to wind up the Largey case the "biggest disappointment" of his last year in office. Cambridge's Assistant City Solicitor, Russell Highly, said recently that the City is "still working hard" on DeLuca's case and that the case should come up to trial in October...