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...Talwar called "How Dr Jekyll Turned Mr Hyde." Appeals by the Talwar and Durrani families to respect their privacy have made no difference. Personal family video has been aired on television. It is the kind of frenzy Western audiences have gotten used to since the still-unsolved JonBenet Ramsey case in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but in India, this home-grown tragedy is generating an enormous domestic market for tabloid journalism. Critics fear that the overzealous media coverage, combined with the police's missteps, may have already prejudiced the course of justice...
...brutal May 5 beating of three shooting suspects, captured on tape by a news helicopter. Among 19 officers identified in the footage, seven are accused of using excessive force, and a sergeant was demoted for failing to intervene. The speedy response by newly appointed police commissioner Charles H. Ramsey was praised by local NAACP leadership, which also criticized the Rev. Al Sharpton's involvement in the controversy. Sharpton had called the incident "worse than Rodney King." A criminal investigation continues...
...incident in Philadelphia different? Mondesire said it is a combination of weariness and hope in the minority community - weariness because they have seen Philadelphia police go unpunished in other high-profile cases dating back to the 1960s, but hope because the new mayor and his new police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, a veteran of turnaround projects at troubled departments, seem to be responding aggressively to the beating. "They jumped on it right away, they didn't hesitate," Mondesire says. "They immediately stepped into the investigation, they immediately took them off street duty, which is different" from the official response to previous...
Still, despite the relatively low-key public response to the beatings, the situation could still change for the worse. The FBI and the local district attorney have said they are monitoring the department's internal investigation and could bring charges against the officers. Ramsey has been under pressure to revamp the department's policy on the use of violence in the face of 35 incidents in two years where police have killed civilians. Smith says the black community has its eye on Nutter - one of a new, younger, and largely untested generation of African-American leaders - and expects...
...Ramsey interjected by exclaiming, ”SAT vocabulary...