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...more black and Hispanic New Yorkers would be dead. The tactics of squads like the Street Crimes Unit, to which the four officers who shot Diallo belong, have dramatically reduced crime and helped make New York the safest large city in the United States. The greatest tragedy of the Amadou Diallo case is that it has further alienated the black community from the officers who are meant to protect it at a time when statistics indicate that police/inner-city community relationships should be at their best...
...here in the comfortable confines of Harvard University, we forget that not everyone is as fortunate as we are. We see bad things happening all around us, and yet we do nothing about it. On Friday, the four New York City police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo were cleared of any wrongdoing. They were found not guilty of murder, or even of using excessive force in shooting an unarmed man 41 times. At a meeting held last night in Sever, there weren't even enough people present to represent each bullet shot...
Days after a jury acquitted the acquittal of four New York City police officers in the shooting of Amadou Diallo, a West African immigrant, questions and anger about the case reverberate through the halls of Harvard...
...realized that Amadou Diallo was not involved with the law at all, he was a target simply because he was black," Conner said. "I realized that it could have happened to me. The police were probably not even consciously racist, but this incident is indicative of a problem...
...CRYING GAME One of four New York City officers on trial for shooting Amadou Diallo (Sean Carroll, right) wept on the witness stand last week. Getting misty is a hit-and-miss tactic, as our history of trial tears shows...