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Dedication:
Patrick
Dorismond
3/16/01
This issue of The Week Online is dedicated
to Patrick Dorismond, a 26-year old Haitian American killed a year ago
Saturday (3/17) by undercover New York City police officers on an anti-marijuana
patrol as part of the city's "Operation Condor." Dorismond didn't
have marijuana, but became angry when an undercover police officer approached
him and asked to buy some. In the ensuing events, Dorismond, who
was unarmed, was fatally shot. Dorismond was the son of the well
known Haitian singer Andres Dorismond and was himself the father of two
young children.
A year later, the "buy and bust" tactics
which led to Dorismond's death are still in routine use, endangering the
lives of law abiding citizens, nonviolent drug law violators and police
officers in New York City and elsewhere. The drugs that Operation
Condor targets are also still in routine use, demonstrating for yet another
year that the drug war and the suffering of its many victims are in vain.
Visit Haiti Progres at http://www.haitiprogres.com
to learn more about the Dorismond tragedy and its aftermath. Visit
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/130.html#dorismon
and http://www.drcnet.org/wol/131.html#newyorkcity
for DRCNet's prior coverage of the Dorismond tragedy.
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Issue #177, 3/16/01
Dedication: Patrick Dorismond | Students Helping Students, HEA Update | Colombian Governors Come to Washington to Denounce Plan Colombia, DRCNet Interviews Tolima Governor Jaramillo | US District Court Overturns Mandatory Drug Tests in Texas School, Lockney Policy Was Nation's Broadest | Drug Reform Battle Heats Up in New York: Pataki Package Would Increase Marijuana Penalties, Democrats Offer Alternative Bills, Activists Don't Like Either Version | New Mexico Update: Ups and Downs for Johnson's Reform Package, State GOP in an Uproar | In Another Step on Path to Cannabis Decrim, Swiss Government Submits Proposed Law to Parliament | Hemispheric Parliamentarians Reject Debate on Drug Legalization | Uruguayan Leader Takes Legalization Views Online, Recommends Traffic | Narco News: Mexican Federal Police Chief Calls for Legalization, Bush Adds Another Half Billion to Colombia Fire | San Francisco Conference Looks at Women and the Drug War | Job Listing: Access Works! in Minneapolis | The Reformer's Calendar | Editorial: The Rule of Law
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