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- <title>
- Sep. 10, 1990: Awarded:The Family Of Michael Stewart
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 10, 1990 Playing Cat And Mouse
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 81
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- <p> AWARDED. To the family of Michael Stewart, who died after
- being forcibly detained by New York City transit police; $1.7
- million; in Manhattan. In 1983, Stewart, 25, was arrested for
- scrawling graffiti in a subway, hog-tied and taken to a
- hospital, where he died 13 days later. The case, which prompted
- charges of racism and brutality, attracted nationwide
- attention.
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- </body>
- </article>
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