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Posted on 08-07-2007
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NEWBURGH – Twenty-five year old Nathaniel Cobbs became the third apparent victim of fatal Newburgh city police brutality. Nathaniel died in police custody on Sunday, July 8, 2007 under suspicious circumstances. Noted civil rights attorney Michael Sussman and Newburgh Democratic mayoral candidate Lillie Howard, the long-time community activist whose grandson, Antonio Bryant, was shot and killed by Newburgh police last October 30th, are calling for the US Attorney and the NY Attorney General to conduct an immediate and impartial investigation of the department. They were joined Friday in the call for a federal investigation by former Newburgh mayor Andrew Marino.

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