Killing of Eleanor Bumpurs
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Killing of Eleanor Bumpurs
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On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. In requesting NYPD assistance, NYCHA workers told police that Bumpurs was emotionally disturbed, had threatened to throw boiling lye and w
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1984 shooting death of an African-American woman by NYPD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eleanor_Bumpurs
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2024-03-19T05:08:44Z
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