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Vatican II gave rise to a less hierarchical and more outward-looking Catholicism and set the stage for once-unthinkable innovations like plainclothes nuns and the celebration of the Mass in English and other modern languages.
Three plainclothes NYPD officers without radios or protective gear had begun ascending either stairwell A or C of the NorthTower.
Johnnie Cochran said he will assemble a dream team of lawyers to hold the New York police "accountable" for the death of an African street peddler . The victim, Amadou Diallo, died after plainclothes policemen fired 41 bullets at him in the vestibule of his apartment building, hitting him 19 times.
She did resist arrest, by the way; the cop was in plainclothes, and she had no idea he even was a cop, so she bit him.
The three plainclothes NYPD officers who had made it up to the 54th floor of the NorthTower felt the building shake violently at 9:59 as the SouthTower collapsed (though they did not know the cause).