/ 10 March 2000

IMMIGRANT SHOOTING PROBABLY RACIST -CLINTON

US President Bill Clinton has said that Amadou Diallo, the African immigrant whose shooting death by police stirred turmoil in New York, might not have been shot if he had been a white man in a white neighbourhood. Clinton talked about the Diallo case during a White House meeting of more than 150 religious leaders from various ethnic and racial backgrounds in his drive to create “one America.”