The Nation - News from May 23, 1985
Managing Director Leo A. Brooks, who supervises the Philadelphia Police Department, said he plans to resign, but denied that the police bombing of the radical group MOVE’s house influenced his decision. Meanwhile, Mayor W. Wilson Goode announced the appointment of an 11-member independent commission to investigate the siege and resulting fire of the May 13 confrontation, which left 11 persons dead and 61 houses destroyed or damaged.
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