Fatal Albany police shooting casts 20-year shadow
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'Those cops up here are killers.'
Some say little has changed in the wake of Jessie Davis' death. Davis, a 35-year-old mentally ill black man, died when he was struck four times by shots fired by white police officers responding to a call about a man gone berserk. Twenty years after the most racially divisive killing in the city's history, the collective memory of Davis' death and reforms it spurred appear as forsaken as the dilapidated building where he lived and died. [more]
Some say little has changed in the wake of Jessie Davis' death. Davis, a 35-year-old mentally ill black man, died when he was struck four times by shots fired by white police officers responding to a call about a man gone berserk. Twenty years after the most racially divisive killing in the city's history, the collective memory of Davis' death and reforms it spurred appear as forsaken as the dilapidated building where he lived and died. [more]
