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...things are harder to fix than the tarnished image of a police force. The NYPD, for example, recently saw the p.r. efforts that followed the Abner Louima torture case nullified, first when Mayor Giuliani discarded a task force report that called for departmental overhaul and now with the trial of the cops who fired more than 40 bullets into unarmed Amadou Diallo. Mention of the Chicago Police Department, despite the absence of recent major scandals, still evokes images of protesters brutalized and hosed down by rampaging police outside the 1968 Democratic convention. But no American police department has been...
Sharpton described incidents of racially motivated police brutality, including the cases of Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo. He also discussed his involvement in recent roadblocks protesting racial profiling...
Woolery laughs off the idea that the show's rules are too byzantine. "Can you imagine Abner Doubleday trying to sell baseball as a parlor game?" And the answer is no. But then, baseball didn't have to become the national pastime in its first three games...
...survey in which 24% of the blacks who were polled said they were unhappy with their local police. It was a smaller number than might be expected at a time of prominent police-brutality cases, including the trial of three New York City officers accused of assaulting Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. But it was a far higher number than the 10% of whites unhappy with police...
...police brutality case that shocked New York City -- and threatened to complicate Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s bid for national office -- has come to a close with another major conviction. On Tuesday, a jury found officer Charles Schwarz guilty of beating and holding down Abner Louima, a black Haitian arrestee, as another officer violently sodomized Louima with a broomstick in a station house bathroom. That other officer, Justin Volpe, pleaded guilty to the assault last month in the face of overwhelming evidence and the corroborating testimony of four fellow officers. Schwarz and Volpe, both white, could now face life in prison...