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Should this tape of the Chicago club stampede have been released before the victims' families got to see it?

CHICAGO - Families of victims of the deadly Chicago nightclub stampede that left 21 dead are angry that a videotape of the disaster was televised before they had a chance to see it themselves. 'We should have had the opportunity to see it privately and, I don't know, find some type of sense to all this before it was blasted over the TV,' said Howard Ray Sr., whose son died in the Feb. 17 disaster. The grainy footage from the E2 nightclub's internal video surveillance system was broadcast Friday after a judge ordered its release to the public. Lawyers for the city had argued against the release, saying it would be emotionally damaging to victims' families. Police also opposed the release, contending that investigators hadn't yet talked to all the witnesses as part of their criminal investigation of the stampede...

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