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Public Interest

Mar. 10, 2000

Diallo Case Forces

FORUM The police who shot Amadou Diallo developed a hyperidentification with the besieged and false community of 'the police force.'

By Peter Gabel
        When I first learned of the acquittal of the four police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo, I was so overwhelmed with rage and helplessness that I practically choked on my own emotion. In a blind moment of explosive internal revulsion and furor, I myself wanted to kill those officers, blast the jury for its stupidity and leave the country. I called a frien...

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