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In Levy vs. police, it's the public that suffers

Quick ReadNo excuse for body to lay in street for hours.

Edgar Villalobos in a photo taken 4 years

Edgar Villalobos in a photo taken 4 years ago in El Salvador.

Joye Brown

Newsday columnist Joye Brown Joye Brown

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

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On the surface, the neighborhood in Brentwood where a bloodied body lay in the street from shortly after midnight until almost 11 a.m. Monday was quiet Wednesday.

But the community is still reeling from that long night turned to day, when Patton Street became a battlefield in the ongoing war between County Executive Steve Levy and Suffolk's police unions.

For days, each side has been...

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