New York City Police Commissioner Robert McGuire promised yesterday to investigate whether “excessive police brutality” was used against demonstrators Monday protesting President Carter’s Middle East policy.
He made this promise during a 45-minute meeting with Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein, who was one of the demonstrators outside the Harmonie Club as some 100 Jewish leaders were inside meeting with Robert Strauss, Carter’s campaign manager and Sol Linowitz, the President’s special Ambassador for Middle East negotiations.
Stein complained that excessive force was used by police with nightsticks as they tried to prevent some of the demonstrators led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, head of the Jewish Defense League, from breaking through the barricades and forcing their way into the Harmonie Club. Kahane and five other were arrested. Stein said yesterday he had “100 percent confidence” that McGuire would carry out a proper investigation.
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