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When words won't do

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Just two little words.

"No justification."

They were said by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly shortly after the fatal

shooting of unarmed 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury Jr. by veteran cop Richard

Neri, who had an unblemished record.

It's true he preceded the phrase by saying "there appears to be," but his

words - "no justification" - lit up the skies over the city's...

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