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ALBANY — The city of Albany will pay $200,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a woman who was raped after three police officers failed to come to her aid when her friend called 911 and warned a dispatcher that she was incapacitated and being held in an apartment by a knife-wielding man.

The dispatcher, Joseph Lee, did not classify the call for help as an emergency or a “weapons call,” according to the lawsuit, even though the caller had told him Trowell had a weapon and was going to rape the intoxicated woman. The dispatcher failed to tell dispatch or the responding officers about the caller’s statements about a weapon or fears of an impending rape…