Vol.64/No.15 April 17, 2000
New York labor council condemns cop killings
The New York City Central Labor Council issued a formal statement last week on the recent police killings in the city. "Two unarmed working men have been shot and killed by police officers," it read, referring to Patrick Dorismond and Amadou Diallo. "It's time we discuss the policies that led to those tragedies," stated the letter to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from council president Brian McLaughlin.
The statement said Dorismond was first and foremost a worker "shot and killed while his family waited for his return from work." McLaughlin also scored the city's decision to release police records of Dorismond in an attempt to smear him: "And now, to have the court-sealed record of a teen revealed by the mayor of our city, is not only reprehensible and unconscionable...in demeaning a dead man, but it's also a dereliction of his civic responsibilities--and an affront to the working class of our city."
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