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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Interesting. I guess I was thrown off by Sharpton's presence.
I thought I remembered racial tones to this story when it happened, but I suppose it was just straight up police brutality instead.
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The "racial tones" come from the fact that this is yet another case of a black man being the victim of police homicide. This is a structural problem with "off the record" police procedures and the profiling and treatment of "usual suspects." This is less about the race of the officers in question.
Here's the NY Times story from 2006:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/refere...ell/index.html