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Demonstrators rally at City Hall after marching over the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the alleged police torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, August 29, 1997, in New York City, N.Y. The unprecedented march was dubbed "Day of Outraged Against Police Brutality and Harassment. (AP Photo/Michael Schmelling) 
                                      

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Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, left, listens with one of his lawyers, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. during a news conference in New York City, August 6, 1998. Louima sought compensation for police brutality against him. (Ap Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
                                                                 

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Two-year-old Kiara Roberts holds a bathroom plunger and a sign as thousands of people marched to Brooklyn's to the police precinct in New York City, N.Y., August 29, 1997, to protest police brutality against immigrant Abner Louima. (AP Photo/Damon Winter) 
                                   

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Justin Volpe, in dark blue suit, the chief perpetrator of the odious crime on the person of Louima. Volpe was sentenced to 30 years in prison. (AP Photo)
                        
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