Word: incidentally
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Neither Price, the shuttle bus driver, nor the bus passengers were hurt in the incident. It is unclear how many passengers were on the bus because all of them left the scene shortly after the accident.
The night clerk at the Harvard Shuttle Office said that the driver of the shuttle bus was Andrew J. Mirabella '91. Mirabella, a Mather House resident, did not want to comment on the incident.
However, the two Black students say the police harassed them and singled them out in the crowded shuttle because of their color. Cambridge police declined for six days to comment on the incident.
The uproar has indicated that the Black community on this campus feels that there is an issue of general police racism, which transcends this individual incident. A survey of upperclassmen last spring, for example, revealed that 45 percent of Black students responding said that they believed that minorities were treated...
To start, police should swiftly disclose all details of this incident instead of dismissing students' outrage as it has done in the past. The year-old Cambridge citizens' Police Review and Advisory Board should closely review its first case of harassment complaints from minority students against white officers. The University...