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.
  • Cincinnati's killer cops

    Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath.
  • My son loves cops

    How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo?
  • Springsteen's anti-NYPD song tells it like it is

    "It's nice to see him taking a stand"
  • When cops become combat troops

    The controversial use of force to seize Elian Gonzalez is just business as usual in the war on drugs.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Rudy's favorite smear: You're nuts!

    But what does his penchant for psychobabble tell us about the mayor's own mental health?
  • Real Life Rock Top 10

  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Brutal verdict

    Behind the acquittal of four officers is a clear indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York.
  • 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.
  • The beating goes on

    Just another acquittal of police officers who killed a black man. I'm angry, but I'm not surprised.
  • Playing politics with death

    Protesting the police killing of Amadou Diallo is no way to organize a movement for social justice.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Cops in the 'hood

    Does it help to have police live in the neighborhoods they patrol?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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