New York City’s mayor defended a police decision to disperse the Million Youth March in Harlem within minutes after it was supposed to end under a court- ordered deadline. Describing the march as promising “to be a really violent event,” Rudolph Giuliani said participants listened to speakers “who got up and talked about killing Jews and taking off their scalps and cutting off their heads.” Meanwhile, police officials are mulling whether to bring charges against the march’s anti-Semitic organizer, Khalid Muhammad, for what they say were his attempts to incite the crowd to kill police.
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