Some 200 people, including 15 rabbis, were arrested Wednesday in a protest at New York City police headquarters. A group of about 75 people from the New York-based Jews for Racial & Economic Justice were among those taking part in what have become daily acts of civil disobedience protesting the Feb. 4 police shooting death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant.
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