Young said she wants to see changes in the system in order to protect African-American officers in the future. And whatever the true motives of, say, Johnnie Cochran, Leisa Young certainly comes across as genuine. At the end of Unnecessary Fire, Duarte is back at Prospect Park. I'm not so quick to say race is not a factor. People are too quick to say no, no, no, it's not race.
Questions have to be asked.
By the way, television is hardly done with the Cornel Young Jr. story. 60 Minutes is also planning a piece, and correspondent Steve Croft was in town this week to interview Cianci. The host is Steve Gillon, a historian from the University of Oklahoma and a former faculty member at Brown, where he got his doctorate. Joining him are conservative author David Frum, investigative reporter Gerald Posner and James Horton, a history professor at George Washington University. Horton, who is black, has first crack at the issue.