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Holding signs and chanting, more than 150 students and community member gathered at the John Harvard statue yesterday to protest last Friday's verdict in New York's Amadou Diallo case...
Last Friday, four New York City police officers were acquitted of second-degree murder charges in the shooting of Diallo, a West African immigrant. Diallo was struck by 19 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. Officers mistook a wallet that Diallo had held...
Bright led the demonstrators in chants of "Police tactics 101/It's a wallet, not a gun." They later counted in unison from one to 41--the number of shots that the four officers fired at Diallo...
While speakers repeatedly said that even Harvard's minority students were not immune from the prejudices that they claim caused the four police officers to think Diallo was carrying a gun, they emphasized that the discussion should be multiracial...
...This is not just about communities of color; we have to ask our white classmates to enter into this dialogue," said Marisa Castuera, a KSG student who helped organize the demonstration. "This is not just about the Diallo verdict--it's about the anger in our community...