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...said. "They were simply more experienced than us and eight out of nine of their players are foreigners. They've grown up playing from a really young age and have a really big advantage there. When you compare someone who grew up playing in France with someone from the Bronx, there's a big difference...
...seated 12 feet from Kadiatou Diallo in the courtroom in Albany last week, about as far away as the four white policemen were from her son Amadou when they shot him down as he stood in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building, armed with nothing but his wallet. I watched her jaw tighten when defense lawyer Stephen Worth glared at the Rev. Al Sharpton and declared that but for the "furor created by people who have their own agenda," the cops who fired 41 9mm bullets at her son, piercing his body 19 times, would not be on trial...
...trial was moved upstate to Albany after an appellate court ruled that extensive press coverage and anti-police demonstrations had tainted the pool of potential jurors in the Bronx. Diallo's supporters feared that in the new venue of Albany County, which is 89 percent white, the defense would play the race card by attacking Sharpton and his band. The cops' backers feared that Sharpton would stir up the blacks in Albany. But blacks in Albany did not need Sharpton to stir them up, because their city has its own ugly history of tension between blacks and cops...
...from being a mere point of interest, the makeup of this jury could have far-reaching ramifications for this trial - in part because it may quell pro-Diallo protesters' fears that moving the trial from the Bronx to overwhelmingly white Albany helped the defense. And while race is undoubtedly on the minds of everyone watching the trial - Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant living in the Bronx, was shot 41 times by four white police officers - White says Judge Terisi has made it clear there will be no race-baiting in his courtroom. "Tuesday, Terisi stopped a defense lawyer...
...cases of police brutality have brought unwelcome attention to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's zealous law-and-order practices. The rising tensions in New York between minorities and police officers spurred a judge to relocate the trial to Albany, which is overwhelmingly white, rather than continue the proceedings in the Bronx, where the shooting occurred. Taking the trial out of the city, says White, is an injustice for everyone involved. "Moving this case was a slap in the face of the people of the Bronx - it seems to suggest they aren't capable of providing a fair trial." Whether...