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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
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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
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How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo?
By Valeria Russ
July 26, 2000
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"It's nice to see him taking a stand"
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June 15, 2000
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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
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Why does everyone want to put Rudy Giuliani on the couch when he throws a temper tantrum?
By Robert A. George
March 29, 2000
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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
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But what does his penchant for psychobabble tell us about the mayor's own mental health?
By Anna Holmes
March 22, 2000
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By Greil Marcus
March 20, 2000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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Protesting the police killing of Amadou Diallo is no way to organize a movement for social justice.
By Jim Sleeper
February 24, 2000
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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
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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
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Does it help to have police live in the neighborhoods they patrol?
By Debra Dickerson
June 14, 1999
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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
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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
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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
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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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