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District Attorney Challenges Description of Controversial Commons Arrest
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“Was justice accomplished? I don’t know,” District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said on Thursday. “That depends on who you ask.”
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cadji-ferguson/)
“Was justice accomplished? I don’t know,” District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said on Thursday. “That depends on who you ask.”
“If not for the regrettable actions of the police, she likely would not have intervened,” the judge wrote.
The case of two black residents that began with a controversial arrest in April has brought national debates on police brutality and systemic racism home to Ithaca.