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...wake of the Diallo and Louima rulings and the Dorismond shooting, New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani needs to see his supposed success as a failure. His perceived accomplishments in improving the "quality of life" in New York are, in reality, abuses of police discretion and the perpetuation of a racial double standard in law enforcement...
...March 16th, a few weeks after the acquittal of the four NYPD officers who killed Amadou Diallo after mistaking his black wallet for a gun, Patrick Dorismond, a Haitian security guard, was killed while scuffling with undercover police posing as drug buyers. These are the facts on which all sides can agree: Dorismond grew indignant when the apparent strangers assumed he possessed drugs, a fight ensued and Officer Vasquez's gun was discharged into his chest, killing...
...times she sounds like a man. Her beats are strong too: her songs hit the listener like middleweight champs. Her lyrics can be playful or boastful or political (she appeared on Hip-Hop for Respect, a four-song CD put out in response to the Amadou Diallo shooting). Rah uses her sexuality not as a come-on but as a weapon. She wants to show that female MCs can be as tough and aggressive as men--and look good at the same time. "I gotta thank God," she raps on Curtains, "I can look this fly and rock it this...
...officers have a dangerous job. "The way you dress, your attitude, it all matters," she instructs them. "Police must be very, very careful. So if you are doing what you're supposed to do, chances are you're going to be on your way." Still, tragic events like the Diallo killing--along with alarming scandals like the reported abuses in the Los Angeles police department--have made the words of caution more urgent. "Many people felt that Mr. Diallo could have been any one of us," says Dennis Walcott, president of the New York Urban League and the father...
...even Mom's or Dad's--which can attract unwanted police attention. Other parents have given an emphatic thumbs-down to cell phones. Why? A police officer might mistake it for a weapon in the hands of a young African-American male, just as the cops say they mistook Diallo's wallet for a gun. Other parents restrict their kids' clothing. New York City police detective Clifton Hollingsworth won't let his sons wear hip street fashions. No backward baseball caps or pants drooping down below their waist, because such clothing can send the wrong signals to police...