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A lesser charge in bumping of officer

Cleon Hodge had a run-in with a Cambridge police officer on a sidewalk near Porter Square in October. Barry Chin / Boston Globe

A Dorchester man whose run-in with a plainclothes Cambridge police officer drew national attention will be charged with disorderly conduct, a clerk magistrate ruled Wednesday.

An assault and battery charge that Cambridge police had sought against Cleon Hodge, 21, was dropped.

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