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    A rapper’s long fight for justice

    by Judy Berman Aug 19, 2019 2 minutes
    The image of a bandaged, beaten 19-year-old Meek has become a symbol of the fight for criminal-justice reform

    ON JAN. 24, 2007, 19-YEAR-OLD ROBERT RIHMEEK Williams was arrested on his South Philly doorstep. He doesn’t recall everything that happened next because, he says, police beat him so severely that he kept losing consciousness. Facing 19 drug, firearms and assault charges—including the allegation that he’d pointed a gun at a cop—he opted for a

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