Finding Arguments in Lived Experience (continued)

Eleven years after police dropped a bomb on a row house occupied by the anti-government group MOVE, a jury has ordered the city of Philadelphia and two former city officials to pay $1.5 million to a survivor and relatives of two members of the group who died in the subsequent fire. The jury found that the city, former Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor and former Fire Commissioner William Richmond used excessive force and violated the MOVE members' constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure in the May 13, 1985 incident. In Monday's verdict, Ramona Africa, 40 -- the only adult to survive the fire -- was awarded $500,000 for pain and suffering and injuries. Relatives of the group's founder John Africa and his nephew Frank James Africa, who died in the incident, were awarded a total of $1 million. Back or Forward

Osage Avenue in 1985 (read article) Image & story from Philadelphia citypaper.net