Amadou Diallo

  • Why racial profiling doesn't work

    Terrorist attacks have been carried out by people of all ethnicities. What police need to look for is strange behavior, not dark skin.
    By Kim Zetter August 22, 2005

  • Cincinnati's killer cops

    Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson April 14, 2001

  • My son loves cops

    How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo?
    By Valeria Russ July 26, 2000

  • Springsteen's anti-NYPD song tells it like it is

    "It's nice to see him taking a stand"
    By June 15, 2000

  • When cops become combat troops

    The controversial use of force to seize Elian Gonzalez is just business as usual in the war on drugs.
    By Bonnie Bucqueroux May 2, 2000

  • He's tough, but he isn't crazy

    Why does everyone want to put Rudy Giuliani on the couch when he throws a temper tantrum?
    By Robert A. George March 29, 2000

  • Why Howard Safir must go

    Rudy Giuliani's police commissioner has offered nothing but knee-jerk support for police officers who have killed three unarmed black men in 13 months. He should resign.
    By Jonathan Foreman March 22, 2000

  • Rudy's favorite smear: You're nuts!

    But what does his penchant for psychobabble tell us about the mayor's own mental health?
    By Anna Holmes March 22, 2000

  • Real Life Rock Top 10

    By Greil Marcus March 20, 2000

  • A tale of two killings

    Did politics play a role when Rudy Giuliani demanded a federal civil rights suit against the killer of Yankel Rosenbaum, but opposed one in the Diallo case? Ya think?
    By Jesse Drucker March 1, 2000

  • Diallo is a martyr, but the cops aren't murderers

    Racism didn't kill the African immigrant, but his death has forced the police and the community to reckon better with one another.
    By Stanley Crouch March 1, 2000

  • Willful misbehavior or tragic accident?

    The Justice Department would have a tough time proving police deprived Diallo of his civil rights when they shot him, one expert says.
    By Daryl Lindsey February 29, 2000

  • Brutal verdict

    Behind the acquittal of four officers is a clear indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York.
    By Bruce Shapiro February 26, 2000

  • How will the acquittal play in the Giuliani-Clinton Senate race?

    "Let's move this out of politics," the mayor says. Fat chance, when his opponent's husband gets to decide whether federal civil rights laws apply.
    By Jesse Drucker February 26, 2000

  • The beating goes on

    Just another acquittal of police officers who killed a black man. I'm angry, but I'm not surprised.
    By Jill Nelson February 26, 2000

  • Playing politics with death

    Protesting the police killing of Amadou Diallo is no way to organize a movement for social justice.
    By Jim Sleeper February 24, 2000

  • Pity the poor immigrant

    The cast of characters in the Diallo trial -- from Rudy's NYPD to the Rev. Al Sharpton -- is priceless, so why does TV drag in Bernhard Goetz?
    By Sean Elder February 9, 2000

  • He vs. she, part 1

    Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York.
    By Jake Tapper September 24, 1999

  • Cops in the 'hood

    Does it help to have police live in the neighborhoods they patrol?
    By Debra Dickerson June 14, 1999

  • Is sodomy with a stick worse than death?

    The outcry over Justin Volpe's abuse of Abner Louima -- compared with comparative silence about decades of police killings -- suggests assaulting someone's manhood is worse than killing him.
    By Jill Nelson May 26, 1999

  • The false trade-off

    As New York struggles to rein in its police department, Boston brags about reducing crime and police brutality at the same time.
    By Michael Crowley April 27, 1999

  • Wake-up call

    Police brutality has long been a problem for African-Americans, but it took immigrant blacks being brutalized for New Yorkers to take notice.
    By Joel Dreyfuss February 12, 1999

  • The trouble with Rudy

    Reaction to the killing of an African street vendor by police shows the growing protest power of the city's immigrant communities.
    By Neal Pollack February 12, 1999
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