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September 24, 2015

Elizabeth Fink, Lawyer of Attica Prisoners Post-Uprising, Dies at 70 
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And longtime civil rights attorney Elizabeth Fink has died at the age of
70. Fink served as the lead attorney for the Attica prisoners after the
1971 prison uprising. The rebellion lasted from September 9 to September
13, 1971, and ended after New York state troopers opened fire, killing
43 prisoners and guards and injuring hundreds of others. More recently,
Fink represented the cyber-activist Jeremy Hammond. This is Elizabeth
Fink speaking about the crackdown by state troopers in the film "Ghosts
of Attica."

Elizabeth Fink: "State troopers just took their clubs and beat them down
the stairs, broke people's legs, hit them on the tibia and broke tibias.
On their back, on their head, in their genitals, on their front—you
know, wherever they could hit them, that's where they beat them."

 

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