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Aug. 5, 2002 / 3:17 PM

Judge OKs profiling settlement

CINCINNATI, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A federal judge Monday approved the settlement of a racial profiling lawsuit, filed just days before the shooting of a black man by a white Cincinnati police officer touched off three days of rioting. U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott issued a 16-page ruling accepting the deal negotiated by city officials, the police union, black activists and civil libertarians.

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