Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : City Held Liable for Bombing; 11 Died
Eleven years after police dropped a bomb on the MOVE row house, starting a fire that killed 11 people and destroyed a Philadelphia neighborhood, a jury ordered the city and two former officials to pay $1.5 million to a survivor and relatives of two dead cult members. After nine days of deliberations, the jury found the city used excessive force and violated MOVE’s constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The May 13, 1985, confrontation killed five adults and six children in the MOVE house and burned 61 homes in the surrounding neighborhood.
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