Word: diallo
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Following weeks of campus-wide protests over the Amadou Diallo shooting verdict, 24 of Harvard's most prominent black faculty members have signed a statement calling for an extended partnership between law enforcement and the nation's minority communities...
...Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from West Africa, was shot and killed by four New York City police officers in February 1999. The police officers said they mistook him for a rape suspect and mistook a wallet in his hand...
...professors' statement, entitled "The Diallo Case is Far From Over," the professors do not explicitly condemn the jury's verdict, though they say it leaves wounds unhealed...
...Diallo's mother may lament the fact that no one got to know her son through the trial testimony, but court is not a talk show. And if civil rights activist Al Sharpton really wants to effect change in the New York police, he could probably be more influential by being silent rather than delivering hostile tirades. TIM LAITINEN Arlington, Texas...
...course no one should be shot for pulling a wallet from his pocket, as Diallo was. But look at the incident from a policeman's point of view. If we are going to put a cop on the street late at night in an area of the city known to have a high crime rate, he has the right to protect himself without fearing that if he does react to a threat he will be put in jail. I sympathize with the Diallo family, but I also feel for the police officers, who put their lives on the line each...