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Jury sides with NYPD on clown's lawsuit

Quick ReadJury sides with NYPD, says police did not use excessive force in clown's arrest

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury has ruled that police did not use excessive force when they arrested a clown who left a suspicious device at a Manhattan Starbucks that turned out to be a balloon inflator.

Alexander Alhovsky was arrested in 2006 after a 911 call from the coffee shop saying a suspicious package was left there. The bomb squad tested the device, which had tubes and wiring, and...

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