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Yvonne Smallwood was 28-years-old and the mother of four children. The youngest is two. She worked full-time for the city of New York and then worked a second job as a dietician's aide for a Bronx hospital, just to bring in extra money for her family.
On. Dec. 3 she was arrested for protesting the is suance of a summons to Austin Harper, her mate, who is a cab driver. On Dec. 9 she was dead while still in police custody.
What happened during those seven days clearly points to yet another case of unchecked police brutahty in New York City. Witnesses, including Austin Harper and a bystander, a social work investigator for New York City, both confirmed that Yvonne Smallwood was beaten by several white police officers. The investigator noted that police threw her to the ground and kicked her. Austin stated that during this first beating she was knocked unconscious.
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