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...Despite such outlandish occurrences, Carlos says that Harvard Square is a pretty calm place, especially in comparison to other areas in the city. Carlos has never been robbed, nor had a gun pulled on him. Nevertheless, he acknowledges that driving a cab can be dangerous, and that other drivers have had very frightening experiences. "A friend of mine was shot in the arm for no reason," he says...
...York City police officers were acquitted of second-degree murder charges in the shooting of Diallo, a West African immigrant. Diallo was struck by 19 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. Officers mistook a wallet that Diallo had held up in the air for a gun...
Bright led the demonstrators in chants of "Police tactics 101/It's a wallet, not a gun." They later counted in unison from one to 41--the number of shots that the four officers fired at Diallo...
While speakers repeatedly said that even Harvard's minority students were not immune from the prejudices that they claim caused the four police officers to think Diallo was carrying a gun, they emphasized that the discussion should be multiracial...
...party system such as ours, third parties and independent candidates can play an important role by keeping the two main parties honest. Big party machines can distract representatives from practical concerns toward hot political issues, like gun control and abortion. When this happens, the bite, or at least the bark, of these little renegades brings the Washington big-wigs back to the mundane, but vital, fiscal reality...