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...spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...that's not the only suit looming over the so-called Bronx Four. When the Diallos filed the civil charges Tuesday, it wasn't a sign they were calling off their campaign for a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. Justice Department officials continue to "consider" the family's repeated requests for a central review, though they warn that prosecuting the officers under federal civil rights law could prove extremely difficult. "Criminal cases and civil cases can coexist," explains TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The family obviously feels there's been a miscarriage of justice, so they're attacking...
...spoke with particular vehemence about the Diallo case, where he said the case was hurt by a change in venue from the Bronx, where Diallo was shot, to Albany. An appellate court of New York thought media coverage of the case may have swayed a jury, according to Sharpton...
Diallo was shot 19 times last year by four New York City police officers while standing in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. Last month, the officers--who said they mistook a wallet Diallo was holding for a gun--were acquitted of second degree murder charges in connection with the death...
Diallo, a West African immigrant, was shot and killed by four white police officers in the lobby of his Bronx apartment after they mistook a wallet he held in the air for a gun. On Feb. 25, all four officers were acquitted of second-degree murder charges...