Attorneys deliver closing arguments in race riot trial

Friday, October 18, 2002

YORK, Pa. -- Prosecutors on Thursday accused police of whipping white youths into a racist, killing frenzy while defense attorneys said incriminating testimony was "bought" with plea deals at the end of the trial of three white men charged with killing a black woman in the city's 1969 race riots.

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