Behind Murder With Impunity
Against The Current vol. 86
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/938
Date Written: 2000-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2000
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12922
New York City and Los Angeles have become the model for life under capitalism in general, and in late-twentieth century urban America in particular. For the affluent are the booming stock and real estate markets; for the poor, a vista of injustice piled on injustice, atrocity on atrocity, serial police murder with impunity. After Amadou Diallo, Malcolm Ferguson; then Patrick Dorismond: If you are Black in New York you can be shot dead if you stand still, run away, or refuse an offer to sell drugs to undercover cops.
