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EW YORK -- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani stepped up his defense Sunday of police officers who stormed the stage at a youth rally in Harlem on Saturday, saying that they had decided to move in only after the keynote speaker began urging the crowd to "riot and murder."... "If you want to know why the police came in at 4:01, go read the court order," Giuliani said. "This is all about creating a respectful society. The court said they had between 12 and 4; it meant exactly that."... And in a call to a reporter Sunday night, he said that the police would indeed have allowed the event to run late, if the chief organizer, Khallidun Abdul Muhammad, had not begun inveighing against the officers in a speech laced with obscenity and anti-Semitic slurs.

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