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They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.

— Marion Barry

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Source: Responding to allegations by Park Police that he was found with a white substance under his nose and trace amounts of cocaine in his car, as quoted in The Washington Post (26 March 2002), p. B2
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