Extra police handling security for 9/11 memorials
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Additional NYPD barricades are placed on Church Street near Ground Zero. (Sept. 9, 2010)
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The NYPD will bring in cops from units outside Manhattan to handle security for Saturday's Sept. 11 memorial, as well as planned demonstrations sparked by controversy over the proposed Islamic community center, officials said.
Police will flood lower Manhattan for Saturday's three-hour-plus remembrance ceremony which begins around 8:45 a.m. Then at 3 p.m. cops will shift attention a few blocks...
