Last night a plain-clothed New York City police office shot and killed paroled drug dealer Malcolm Ferguson, during a struggle just 3 blocks from the Bronx apartment building where officers from the NYPD's Street Crimes Unit killed African immigrant Amadou Diallo last year. The Center for Constitutional Rights has sued the city of New York and its police department. The suit charges that the policies and practices of the Street Crime Unit, four of whose members killed Diallo, violate the constitutional rights of New Yorkers. According to the suit, the stopping and frisking of thousands of people, mostly young Latinos and Americans, is in violation of 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches. Eileen Sutton reports from New York.
Fighting continues in Kosovo.
Albright's idea appeared to reflect the difficulty of persuading Kosovo's Serbs and ethnic Albanians to live together in peace. This week violence erupted along Kosovo's eastern border with Serbia. Sputnik Kilambi reports from Pristina. Pinochet back in Chile Former Chilean Dictator, Augusto Pinochet is back home in Chile today amid jubilant applause from supporters and vehement condemnation from Human Rights groups. Pinochet was arrested in London sixteen months ago on charges of crimes against humanity during his 17 year rule.