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crown heights report  

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  • In the summer of 1991, New York City suffered the most extensive racial unrest since the 1960s. On August 19, a car in the motorcade carrying Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson veered out of control and hit a black 7-year-old child, Gavin Cato, and his cousin. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Crown Heights Report]

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