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...really a slap-in-the-face," one officer who asked to remain anonymous said at the time...
...minorities and police officers spurred a judge to relocate the trial to Albany, which is overwhelmingly white, rather than continue the proceedings in the Bronx, where the shooting occurred. Taking the trial out of the city, says White, is an injustice for everyone involved. "Moving this case was a slap in the face of the people of the Bronx - it seems to suggest they aren't capable of providing a fair trial." Whether or not it ultimately proves to be fair, this trial will help shape future police procedures and definitions of excessive force - in New York and nationwide...
...Eugene F. Rivers III, pastor of Boston's Azusa Christian Community church, is my kind of preacher: a former gang member with a Harvard education who has devoted himself to keeping ghetto kids out of trouble. He also believes it's his Christian duty to verbally slap the black establishment upside the head when it's falling down on its job. In 1992, for example, he infuriated black intellectuals by accusing them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later...
...inside a length of chair-rail molding ingeniously milled and painted to blend into the aging woodwork of a conference room used by the oceans and environment bureau. "This is really a sort of James Bond scenario," marvels a top official. "This is not something you go in and slap under the table and walk out the door. It's extremely professional in nature and sufficiently concealed so that you or I wouldn't find it in a hundred years...
...Richard A. Perez, face obscured by computer. Rich belongs to an elite Crimson crew of Sports boys, who tend to make lots of noise, slap high-fives and hold impromptu suitcase auctions in this very space. (Rich is one of the few members who did not attend Regis High School in New York.) FM likes Sports. Aarons used to proof their section until...