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That is why the not-guilty verdict left so many black New Yorkers feeling no justice and no peace. It is also why the Rev. Al Sharpton, for all his flaws, has become the man they turn to when they think they have been victimized by racist cops. Sharpton believes the all-white prosecution team from the Bronx district attorney's office botched the case by failing to offer rebuttal evidence and treating the defendants with kid gloves. "Heck, man, I could have asked better questions than that," Sharpton scoffed after a gingerly cross-examination of one of the accused...
Earlier in the year, the Black Men's Forum (BMF) brought Rev. Al Sharpton to campus to speak on racial profiling. It was held in a half-filled Lowell Lecture Hall, and the audience was made up of mainly graduate students. Where were undergraduates then...
...incident enraged New Yorkers both black and white, many of whom charged that the officers acted with either malice or, at best, gross indifference to Diallo's life. The Rev. Al Sharpton and others said they believed the shooting was in part racially motivated. A Bronx prosecutor filed charges against the officers, and the case was moved to Albany because of the publicity. Last Friday, a jury of four black women, one white woman and seven white men acquitted the officers, igniting protests across New York City...
Four white New York City policemen charged with murdering an unarmed black man are free - but the trial of the New York City police department has probably only just begun. On Sunday the Rev. Al Sharpton staged a protest at the U.N. over the controversial verdict: All four officers accused of murdering West African immigrant Amadou Diallo found not guilty Friday evening on 24 counts ranging from murder in the second degree to reckless endangerment. While New York's cops had prepared for the worst, reaction in the city was more bewildered and pained than violent. People began to take...
...After the event, while reporters and some of the attendees gathered at the United House of Prayer across the street from the Apollo, Professor Cornel West - one of the nation's foremost authorities on race relations - and the Rev. Al Sharpton discussed Bradley's lukewarm reception during the debate. "He just doesn't have the delivery," noted Sharpton. "It's a shame," said West. David Dinkins, who was New York's first black mayor, told TIME Daily: "I like Bradley, he's a good person, but I have to support the man who's got the best chance of getting...