Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Wounded Sharpton Appeals for Calm
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Rev. Al Sharpton, hospitalized in stable condition for a stab wound, issued a statement urging calm among his supporters as about 500 of them staged a protest rally in Bensonhurst, the Brooklyn neighborhood where Sharpton was knifed in the chest Saturday. A white New Yorker, Michael Riccardi, 27, was being held without bail.
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