Word: racists
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City Manager Robert Healy is investigating charges that the city police chief made racist comments last month at a dinner in honor of a retiring detective, city officials said yesterday...
Healy, who supervises all city employees, has discussed the alleged racist remarks with Police Chief Anthony Paolillo and other police officers who attended the April 22 dinner, City Solicitor Russell B. Higley said yesterday. After reviewing the case, Healy may take disciplinary action against Paolillo or dismiss the allegations, Higley said...
...doesn't make much sense for someone who is a defendant in a civil rights case to stand up and tell a racist joke," said Douglas Louison, the lawyer representing the officers in their suit. Louison said that while telling the joke "doesn't rise to a violation" of Constitutional rights or warrant additional charges, the incident suggests a lack of "sensitivity" on Paolillo's part...
...women to the streets to cope with Israeli soldiers," cries of outrage erupted in the audience. When he claimed further that the Jewish concern for women and children is something that "is not known in, maybe, your circles," the comment was hotly denounced by the Palestinians as an "outright racist statement." In the midst of this tinderbox, Koppel handled himself with poise / and scrupulous fairness, trying his best (not always successfully) to cut short rambling speeches and keeping emotions under control by the sheer force of his calming intellect...
...activity in each one of those areas," says an aide. "While that might be attractive in a person, it can be a disadvantage in a presidential candidate." But having failed to define himself, Gore was helpless as others did it for him, often in inaccurate terms -- Southerner, conservative, panderer, racist...