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New York Senate candidate Clinton urges police reform
NEW YORK (CNN) -- U.S. Senate aspirant Hillary Rodham Clinton used a Sunday church appearance to make her strongest comments to date on the Amadou Diallo case and to propose how to improve policing in New York City. Speaking at Riverside Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, near Columbia University, Mrs. Clinton said many of the city's minorities "do believe, if Amadou had been a white man in an all-white neighborhood, he would still be alive." Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea in West Africa, was shot 19 times in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment in February, 1999, after pulling a wallet out of his pocket. The four police officers, who are white, mistook his wallet for a gun and fired 41 bullets into the vestibule. Last month, the officers were acquitted of second-degree murder charges by a jury in Albany, New York. Police should be more diverseClinton told the church assembly that "too many people are considered suspect because of the color of their skin." She took a jab at Mayor Rudy Giuliani, her Republican Senate opponent, and said "the leadership of this city refuses to reach out." "I reject the false choice between effective policing and mutual respect," she added."The police should truly reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of this city." President Bill Clinton had earlier said at a California fund-raiser Friday night, when commenting on the Diallo case, that he believes "if it had been a young white man, in a young all-white neighborhood, it probably wouldn't have happened." New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says the president's comments regarding the Diallo shooting are being used as a campaign issue to benefit Mrs. Clinton, Giuliani's opponent for a U.S. Senate seat. Giuliani said he trusts the verdict of the jury, rather than President Clinton's opinion on the matter. Mrs. Clinton's proposalsSome of Mrs. Clinton's proposals to reform the New York City police department, which is 75 percent white, were: CNN's Phil Hirschkorn and Frank Buckley contributed to this report |
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