[UA] Explain American laws to me

[Jason Schneiderman]

>    Oh, it still happens.  The "suicide" angle isn't quite so prevalent as
>it was in earlier days, but we still get all sorts of fun stuff.  Every few
>months, another prisoner--usually black--gets hog-tied and left on his
>stomach here in Ohio.  The result is suffocation.  In New York, Amadou
>Diallo (and I know I'm misspelling his name) was sodomized with a toilet
>plunger while in police custody by police officers.  In general, if you're
>going to get picked up by the cops, it's much safer to be white.

You spelled it correctly; you just got the wrong guy. Diallo was shot 41
times by the NYPD for flashing a wallet that looked to the policemen
like a weapon. The one you're thinking of is Abner Louima.

Jason, who loves New York



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