Review by standard888

We've liked how these documentaries deal with how media manipulates what we consider justice in the USA. I had not lived in NYC very long when the police murdered Amadou Diallo. Even to my white Midwestern ears, the police sounded guilty, guilty, guilty. This short documentary brings back the public's frustration and anger at the crazy aggression of Rudy Giuliani and the NYPD, but also how U. S. gun laws (lack of them) yields cops who think everyone--sorry, I mean everyone who's not WHITE is packing and out to kill them. I appreciated the interviews with journalists and former politicians (like Mayor Dinkins), as well as Diallo's mother. It does a good job showing how media "otherized" Mr Diallo, stripping him of his education and family, identifying him as a "poor immigrant street peddler." I believe the police should have been punished, but it is important that we hear this story, too.