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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...
Other pertinent facts remain unclear. The officers contend that Dorismond ignored shouts of "Police" and lunged for Officer's Vasquez's gun, which discharged accidentally, killing him. This story is contradicted by an eyewitness who maintains that Vasquez threw the first punch and never identified himself as a police officer...
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, however, has already decided whom to blame. Hours after the story broke, Giuliani vilified Dorismond in the media. The mayor illegally released Dorismond's juvenile criminal record and lied about Dorismond's past crimes in press conferences, accusing him of robbery and armed robbery. In reality, the "assaults" Giuliani mentions were the result of a traffic dispute and a fight with a friend who had cheated him out of marijuana...
...York is not entirely lost. While some politicians may have lost their personal morality, New Yorkers have not. The public outcry against Giuliani has hurt him both in the polls and within his own party. Prominent state Republicans have publicly criticized him for his harsh treatment of the Dorismond family. Regarding the highly publicized race between New York's mayor and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Giuliani is now slightly behind Clinton. A week before the Dorismond killing he led her in the polls...