Police defend Gene Hackman, slapping homeless man 'self defense'

[police brutality]

Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE — Actor Gene Hackman slapped a homeless man in downtown Santa Fe Tuesday afternoon in what city police are calling an act of self-defense. Hackman, the Oscar-winner who has appeared in such films as "The French Connection," "Unforgiven," and "The Quick and the Dead," was walking with his wife near Lincoln and Marcy at about 1:30 p.m. when ...

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