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Peace Dies in a Botched Drug Raid"
#   By Sara Rimer, The New York Times, March 28, 1994
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#   Boston, March 27--- Tensions between the police and black Bostonians
#   intensified after the murder of Carol Stuart in 1989. Charles Stuart
#   said that a black robber had killed his pregnant wife.
#   
#   Police subsequently stopped AND SEARCHED many black men in the Mission
#   Hill neighborhood, where the shooting had occurred, and eventually
#   arrested a suspect, a black man with a criminal record.
#   
#   A month later, Mr. Stuart was implicated by his brother in the murder,
#   and he committed suicide by jumping into Boston Harbor.
#   
#   An elderly Methodist minister, described as a quiet and dignified man
#   who has for decades comforted and counseled people throughout the
#   Caribbean and struggled against drug abuse on the islands, died Friday,
#   when a SWAT team burst into his apartment unannounced, looking for drugs.
#   
#   They misread a floor plan by "an informer."
#   
#   The same Drug Control Unit was investigated for a death in 1988, and it
#   was revealed that their officers routinely FABRICATED INFORMERS to obtain
#   search warrants.
#   
#   The agents chased the 75-year-old minister to his room, then broke through
#   his bedroom door...he became so frightened while being handcuffed that he
#   began vomiting and collapsed. He died a few minutes l