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...were selected from an 85-percent-white district in Albany rather than the mostly black and Hispanic neighborhood where the crime occurred. But the jury that tried the N.Y. case contained four blacks out of twelve jurors. Although the district attorney would certainly have prosecuted successfully in the Bronx, a conviction in Albany was not out of reach...
Diallo died instantly in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building, after being shot 19 times by police...
...incident enraged New Yorkers both black and white, many of whom charged that the officers acted with either malice or, at best, gross indifference to Diallo's life. The Rev. Al Sharpton and others said they believed the shooting was in part racially motivated. A Bronx prosecutor filed charges against the officers, and the case was moved to Albany because of the publicity. Last Friday, a jury of four black women, one white woman and seven white men acquitted the officers, igniting protests across New York City...
...Hayden had been bringing the stars to sky-deprived city dwellers, and its frumpy dome, slapped onto the museum's north side, had played host to generations of visitors. That included Tyson himself, whose career as an astrophysicist was first inspired by visits to the Hayden from his boyhood Bronx...
That likely will not play well in the Soundview section of the Bronx, where, White says, "the entire black community is vibrating like a plucked string." On Friday and throughout the weekend, anguished crowds gathered into the evening on the block where Diallo was gunned down, some standing silently with candles, others incoherent in their anger. "My son could end up as the next Amadou Diallo," one young father cried...