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Pollitt, Katha | March 15, 1999 issue

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The article presents information on protests against police brutality in the wake of the killing of politician Amadou Diallo would be an all-black affair, as, according to news reports, the earlier rallies in the Bronx had been. "Ministers and politicians from the Bronx to West Africa are protesting overly aggressive policing, but the worst form of police racism used to consist of doing nothing about crimes involving only blacks? Midway through the Mayor's second-and glory be to term limits, last-term, the city is more and more Fantasy Island for a few and less and less a place whore any kind of low-income person can get a break.

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POLICE brutality; DEMONSTRATIONS; DIALLO, Amadou, 1975-1999; RACE discrimination; PREJUDICES; INCOME; ETHNOCENTRISM
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