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Police deny that mistaken identity was behind the May 5 beatings, but nobody doubts that the killing of Liczbinski and the tense manhunt that followed had officers and residents on edge. Says Nutter, "There is no justification for what we saw on the videotape and we will deal with that during the investigatory process. I've said it many, many times - that kind of conduct is certainly unacceptable and there is no question about that." He adds, "I think people generally know we have a respectful police department and we're dealing with a lot of violence...
...news helicopter caught more than a dozen white officers kicking and beating three black men who were arrested as suspects in a shooting on a city street. "This was just a very unusual situation and I think the public reacted to it as an unusual situation," says Mayor Michael Nutter, who was swift to denounce the beatings after the tape showed on local television. "It doesn't represent anywhere near the norm in Philadelphia... We acted very directly, very swiftly, we told the truth and we'll let the investigation play out and let the chips fall where they...
...years. There were 392 homicides in 2007 and 406 the year before in a city of less than a million and a half residents. In some parts of the city, gunfire is a common sound and it's hardly unheard-of for innocent bystanders to be injured or killed. Nutter, who is black, was elected mayor last year in part on his promise to reduce the killings in a city weary of constant gunplay. "The rise in homicides makes it really clear that [the police] are operating under a level of stress," says longtime Philadelphia Daily News columnist Elmer Smith...
...inning-ending pickle. In the eighth, the Crimson extended its lead to 4-2 when Kramer ripped a double that drove in freshman Dillon O’Neill.Before BC scored three runs off him in the ninth, freshman Ben Sestanovich recorded nine straight outs in relief. Freshman Anthony Nutter pitched 5.1 innings as the starter and surrendered just two earned runs.“Our pitchers are throwing the best in the Ivy League I think,” Kramer said. “Our hitters are getting timely hits, and we’re still feeling like we?...
...Harvard bats paced the Crimson to a 9-5 win in the first of two games, but the nightcap made a hero of the Bulldog catcher P.J. Gorynski and goats of the Harvard bullpen: two innings after Unger departed with a four-run lead, Gorynski placed an Anthony Nutter offering over the left-field fence to hand Yale (15-18-1, 7-4-1) a 7-6 walk-off victory. “Going into the day, we were pretty confident that we’d be able to go out and get two,” Haviland said...