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...supposed resemblance to a sexual predator suspected of raping more than 50 women. And the fact that Diallo, who hailed from the African nation of Guinea, lied on his application for political asylum, falsely claiming he was fleeing persecution in Mauritania. Then if all else fails, lash out at Sharpton and the busload of semi-professional protesters he imports from New York City each day to chant "No justice, no peace! No justice, no peace!" in the park across the street from the courthouse. Harp on everything except this: why in New York City and other cities across America, some...
...away as the four white policemen were from her son Amadou when they shot him down as he stood in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building, armed with nothing but his wallet. I watched her jaw tighten when defense lawyer Stephen Worth glared at the Rev. Al Sharpton and declared that but for the "furor created by people who have their own agenda," the cops who fired 41 9mm bullets at her son, piercing his body 19 times, would not be on trial for murder. She remained composed when another defense lawyer, Bennett Epstein, implied that the killing...
...after an appellate court ruled that extensive press coverage and anti-police demonstrations had tainted the pool of potential jurors in the Bronx. Diallo's supporters feared that in the new venue of Albany County, which is 89 percent white, the defense would play the race card by attacking Sharpton and his band. The cops' backers feared that Sharpton would stir up the blacks in Albany. But blacks in Albany did not need Sharpton to stir them up, because their city has its own ugly history of tension between blacks and cops. In 1984 Albany police shot and killed Jesse...
Festering memories of those incidents - along with Sharpton's protests and the fact that the proceedings are being broadcast nationally on Court TV - have created a volatile atmosphere that puts a heavy burden on the judge, Joseph Teresi, to conduct the trial in a way both sides perceive as fair. So far, he has been up to it. When defense lawyers attempted to block prospective jurors who were black, Teresi stopped them cold and seated a panel that has four black members out of 12, twice as many as veteran criminal attorneys say they have ever seen in any Albany...
...still "in denial." Two days later, Carla Hochhalter, the mother of Anne Marie, who was paralyzed in the April 20 shootings, walked into the Alpha Pawn Shop, asked to see a gun and shot herself. Michael Shoels, whose son Isaih was murdered, appeared at a rally with Al Sharpton, ranting against the killers' parents and the police. "I'm as angry as the day it happened," says Shoels. And 18 families filed notices of intent to sue the school district, the sheriff's office or both...