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Nation IN BRIEF : NEW JERSEY : Wake Held for Youth Killed by Policeman

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From Times staff and Wire reports

Hundreds of friends and family members jammed a church in Englewood, N.J., for the Easter Sunday wake of a black teen-ager whose slaying last week by a white policeman sparked a night of unrest in neighboring Teaneck. The mother of Phillip Pannell, 16, collapsed and had to be helped outside the Community Baptist Church. Attending the wake were Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan, the Rev. Al Sharpton and civil rights lawyer Alton H. Maddox Jr. Pannell was killed by officer Gary Spath, who said the youth was armed and refused oral commands to surrender. A .22-caliber revolver was found on the dead youth.

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