[UA] Explain American laws to me

[Kevin Mowery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Schneiderman" <jadasc at ma.ultranet.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Explain American laws to me


> >    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.

    D'oh!  You're right of course.  It's just hard to keep straight who's
been brutalized how by the NYPD.

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