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Video Spurs Arrest in Crown Heights Death

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A 5-year-old videotape of a black man urging attacks against Jews on the streets of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights has led to a second arrest in the 1991 slaying of a Hasidic scholar. The arrest of 43-year-old Charles Price on federal charges was praised by friends and family of the slain Yankel Rosenbaum, but it also renewed their criticism of the initial handling of the case. Price’s lawyer said he is not guilty. Rosenbaum, 29, was chased and fatally stabbed by a gang of 10 to 15 blacks during the first of four nights of rioting in the neighborhood. The violence began after a 7-year-old black boy was accidentally struck and killed by a motorcade carrying the leader of the Lubavitch Hasidic sect.

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