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08-11-2022, 08:34 AM
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The brother of two girls killed in a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a a Black Liberation group has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, saying his sisters’ remains were mishandled and hidden away for decades causing the family extreme distress.
In 2021, it came to light that the university had retained bones from at least one bombing victim after helping with the forensic identification in the wake of the bombing. Those bones are believed to be 14-year-old Katricia Dotson and had likely been used in at least one lesson.
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Lionell Dotson filed the civil lawsuit in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas late last week. The lawsuit says both the university and the city engaged in tortious interference with a dead body and inflicted emotional distress on him and his mother, Consuewella Africa, who died in June 2021. Katricia and Zanetta Dotson, 12, were among five children and six adults killed in the 1985 police bombing of the headquarters of MOVE, a Black Liberation group. More than 60 homes in the neighborhood burned to the ground
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-...3ea5435d89
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The brother of two girls killed in a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a a Black Liberation group has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, saying his sisters’ remains were mishandled and hidden away for decades causing the family extreme distress.
In 2021, it came to light that the university had retained bones from at least one bombing victim after helping with the forensic identification in the wake of the bombing. Those bones are believed to be 14-year-old Katricia Dotson and had likely been used in at least one lesson.
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Lionell Dotson filed the civil lawsuit in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas late last week. The lawsuit says both the university and the city engaged in tortious interference with a dead body and inflicted emotional distress on him and his mother, Consuewella Africa, who died in June 2021. Katricia and Zanetta Dotson, 12, were among five children and six adults killed in the 1985 police bombing of the headquarters of MOVE, a Black Liberation group. More than 60 homes in the neighborhood burned to the ground
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-...3ea5435d89
