Surprised?
See, it's not like people WANT to bitch. It's not like people can't understand even a tragic error.
What pisses people off is to have their concerns brushed off like, oh you're oversensitive.
from the NY Times
A Response More Mournful Than EnragedBy LYDIA POLGREEN and ELISSA GOOTMAN
It had all the potential for a volatile backlash: an unarmed black woman in her 50's home alone in the early morning hours before heading to work when police officers in riot gear break down her door and set off a concussion grenade. Within hours, the woman is dead of a heart attack.
Past police confrontations that ended in the deaths of black citizens often incited waves of protest that swept the city. Yet the response yesterday to the death of Alberta Spruill, the 57-year-old Harlem woman who died on Friday after police officers mistakenly raided her home, was relatively muted. While suspicion, anger and doubts were expressed in interviews in her neighborhood, there was also credit given to the Police Department for immediately stopping the use of grenades designed to stun suspects and for quickly starting an investigation.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/19/2003 05:58:09 PM |
Posted by P6 at May 19, 2003 05:58 PM
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