A Jewish communal advocacy group expressed “deep shock and outrage” after four New York police officers were acquitted of all charges connected to the shooting last year of Amadou Diallo, a West African immigrant. The group, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, said it is “appalled at the miscarriage of justice in this historic trial.”
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