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Vets of Tompkins Square battle ready to fight again
Twenty years ago this week Tompkins Square Park was turned into a battlefield as police officers ran roughshod over homeless squatters and neighborhood activists in a seminal moment in NYPD-community relations.
The dust has long since cleared and multimillion-dollar apartments and upscale eateries line the perimeter of the park.
However, a group of veterans of the Tompkins Square Park...
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