In the Bronx, N.Y. it was Amadou Diallo, an African vendor, who was murdered by police. There were similar incidents in Riverside, Calif., Charlotte, N.C., and on the New Jersey Turnpike. There is a national epidemic of police violence. It has escalated with the CIA-linked, influx of drugs. Many of the victims of police brutality have committed no crimes but are attacked because they are Black, Latino, poor or young.
Thousands are victims of racist profiling.
Increasingly, in African-American and Latino communities, residents fear the police more than the criminals. That's because all across the country local police act like the Gestapo. They feel they can do anything they want - that they can literally get away with murder. So the bodies are piling up. With the passage of the Omnibus Crime Bill, President Clinton and the Congress, on down to the governors, mayors and the precinct captains have given local police license for reckless, brutal fascist-like behavior.