A group of Jewish activists traveled to Albany, N.Y., to “monitor” the police brutality trial of four officers who last year killed Amadou Diallou, a West African immigrant. The family of Gidone Busch, an Orthodox man killed by police in Brooklyn, was expected to join the activists, organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
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