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Police detained him and confiscated his electronic devices.

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It says the NYPD, coordinating with the agencies, also detained members of Malcolm X's security team days before the shooting and intentionally removed their officers from inside the ballroom where he was shot.

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Five men and three women were detained as part of the investigation, and most of them come from the same family originally from central Romania, say police.

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"I think it is one of the rules of the authoritarian government, to arrest, to detain the people who have the power to impact opinion," Mr Ibadoglu told the BBC in an interview this week.

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The woman was detained and released pending further investigation, police officials said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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