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Sharpton To Visit Victim Of Philly Cop Beating

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled to be in Philadelphia to visit one of three victims of a police beating.

Sharpton is expected Sunday at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, where Dwayne Dyches is being held. Sharpton, a civil rights activist, says he and Dyches will pray together.

Dyches was traveling in a car with two other men last week when they were pulled over and beaten by Philadelphia police. The incident was captured on videotape by a local TV station.

Police said the three men had been involved in a triple shooting. But Dyches' attorney says police concocted that story. He says Dyches was beaten because he looked like a suspect wanted in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia police officer.

(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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