Police conducted a drug sting on a man walking down the street. Patrick Dorismond. Tried to sell him drugs. He vociferously declined and even fought them. And the Police shot him and claimed that Dorismond was reaching for a (non-existent) gun. And Dorismond died as a result of being shot.
Much of the controversy over the Dorismond shooting revolved around then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was then in the midst of an abortive United States Senate campaign. His release of Dorismond's sealed juvenile delinquency record immediately after the shooting raised the ire of the African-American community as well as critics of the Mayor, whose office defended the release using the rationale that the right to privacy does not survive an individual's death. Giuliani also said that he only wanted to show that Dorismond was "no altar boy". Ironically, Dorismond had attended the same Catholic school as Giuliani and had indeed been an altar boy. Giuliani's actions became a hot-button issue in his Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton and cost him several points in the polls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dorismond
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