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Herman Bell, a member of the radical Black Liberation Army who was captured and convicted of assassinating two NYPD police officers in 1971, was approved for parole Wednesday.
The news stunned the families of Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini, both young fathers when they were killed, after being lured to a Harlem housing project with a phony 911 call.
