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JUSTICE IS NEEDED IN THE DIALLO CASE.(Editorial)(Editorial)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20000229
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"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Last Friday, in a court of state law, four white New York City police officers, acting under the color of law, were found blameless in the death of Amadou Diallo, an African immigrant wounded by 19 of the 41 bullets unleashed at him in the vestibule of his apartment building early last year.

When a jury's verdict defies common reason, a slew of ``what ifs'' spring immediately to mind. In this case Diallo, a short, slight man, had not attacked, or even approached, the plain-clothes ...

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