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Special commissioi
By LEE LINDER
Associated Press Writer
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PHILADELPHIA -- The special commission inestigating
the violent MOVE confrontation last
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be impaneled to consider criminal charges,
although it did not specify individuals for grand
jury consideration, and condemned Mayor W.
Wilson Gix>de and his top aides for their handling
of the tragedy.
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The report, although it did not recommend that a
grand- jury consider criminal charges against the
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negligence in the May 13, 1985, siege of the radical
group's headquarters which left 1! people J
sparked a fire that raced through the west
Philadelphia neighborhood. Sixty-one houses were
destroyed.
Harsh Findings
The request for a grand jury investigation was the
harshest of the 31 findings and conclusions reached
by the 11-member panel appointed by the mayor.
The 70-page report released last week was substantially
the same as a draft that was leaked to the
media the previous weekend.
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Goode and former Managing Director Leo
Brooks, former Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor
and Fire Commissioner William Richmond
were accused of being 1'grossly negligent," partticularly
in regard to the deaths of five children of
MOVE members.
The children's deaths "appear to be unjustified
homicides which should be investigated" by a grand
jury, the commission said. However, the report did
not specify any individuals for possible investigation.
A High Cost
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Only two MOVE members, a woman and a boy,
escaped, and dozens of other homes were damaged
iit the conflagration that began when police dropped
a bomb on the fortified MOVE townhouse. The
fire already has cost-the city more than $15 million
as it rebuilds the houses and pays for losses of property.
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analysis. "A homicide caused by an intentional act
cannot be excused as accidental even if death was
not intended."
The commission charged Goode and his aides
with "a reckless disregard for life and property"
and said the mayor "abdicated his responsibilities"
during the siege, in which police fired more than
10,000 bullets.
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.prejudice, "consciously or unconsciously," influenced
the tragic event. The 10 commission
members said it wouldn't have occurred if "the
MOVE house had been situated in a comparable
white neighborhood."
Kauffman also disagreed that evidence showed
police used excessive force in trying to force MOVE
members out, or that the gunfire prevented MOVE
members from exiting.
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Gooder ?r air appeal ancc thi WPV?TV*s~**Aftf~
Philadelphia** shuw befuie the icpuit was releasecf,"
said he was not "overly concerned about the grand
jury" prospect. "My concern is to run the city," he
said.
He refused to respond to specifics in the report,
saying, "I'm not ready for it now." He said he
planned to address the city on television and to hold
a press conference on all aspects of the report.
He also said he planned to make some recommendations
at the press conference based on the
commission's findings.
Although the commission found that "the
managing director told the mayor, in a conversation
overheard by two other people, that the police
would drop the explosives from a helicopter,"
Goode said the report did not contradict his
testimony that he was essentially unaware of the
plan.
"They don't disagree with my version," he said
of the report, contending that it only reflected "different
points of view."
emu seeking Re-Election
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Goode repeated that he wouldn't resign and
wouldn't change his plans to seek re-election to a second
four-year term in 1987.
Goode, a Democrat, is the city's first black
mayor.
The report contains only the summation and
recommendations reached after five weeks of hearings
last fall. A more comprehensive report,
possibly 1,000 pages long, is expected to be released.
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