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Last month's funeral for Amadou Diallo was a somber occasion, commemorating the life of a young man who had been wrongly shot to death on Feb. 4 by New York Police Department (NYPD) officers. His death is only the latest in a series of police brutality cases over the last year, but it serves to remind us all the more of the fine line between enforcing "law and order" and destroying civil liberties...
...Deallo's case, four NYPD officers shot a total of 41 bullets at the unarmed man, who was about to enter his apartment. 19 bullets reached their target, many after Diallo's lifeless body had slumped onto the steps of his home...
...think most African intellectuals relate to some aspect of Samba Diallo," he says, referring to a character in a Senagalese novel who struggles to preserve his African and Muslim heritage while becoming a Parisian intellectual...
...student D.J.S, Diallo A. Riddle '97 and Nate D. Simmons '98, will provide the music...
...deejays were: Diallo J. Riddle '97, who played hip-hop music and goes by the stage name of "Djihad;" Ehab J. Goldstein '98, who played house music and goes by "Ehab;" and, Joshua L. Adams '97, who played '80's music and goes by "Schroff...