Apartheid. USA 1988

January 4, 1987:

Cedric Sandiford (36), a key witness in the Howard Beach racial attack, flanked by his lawyers and other blacks during a crowded news conference at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, said that the police had disputed and discounted portions of his story from the start. The police had treated him more like a criminal than a victim and had conducted ‘a masquerade investigation’. He continued, ‘they only wanted to hear part of it and they tried to discredit the other part of it.’ Mr Sandiford's lawyers have contended repeatedly that he told the police he saw a car strike and kill his companion. The police maintained Mr Sandiford told them he did not witness the crash.^16.

16. The New York Times, from a report by Robert D McFadden