Brutal verdict

[Gordon Fitch]

ckromm at mindspring.com:
> ckromm at mindspring.com thought you would be interested in this article at
> Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/).
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> Brutal verdict
> By Bruce Shapiro
> Feb.  26, 2000
> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/26/diallo_legal/index.html
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> Behind the acquittal of four officers in the Diallo trial is a clear indictment of standard police procedure in Giuliani's New York.
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I found it curious that the article didn't mention the Drug
War.  I believe it was under this criminal appeal to sadism
and superstition that Diallo was attacked by the police --
he was mistaken for some kind of drug dealer, was he not?

Gordon