Apartheid. USA 1988

July 17, 1987:

On the evening of July 8, 1986, two white police officers killed a black man wielding a deer-hunting rifle in Norwalk, Connecticut. Witnesses disagreed about whether the victim, Ralph Fuller (27) pointed the gun at the officers. The rifle was unloaded. Three months later, the racial tension in Norwalk, that had swelled after the killing, was heightened further when another white policeman fatally shot a larceny suspect, Jay Reyes (21) a Puerto Rican, who had hit the officer with a rock while trying to escape from custody. Inquiries by the FBI and other officials exonerated the white officers in both incidents, but the victims' families started law suits. Of the Norwalk Police Department's 159 officers 26 percent are of black or Hispanic origin. However, the Times found that the streets are ‘steaming with fear and anger and resentment.’^132.

132. The New York Times, from a report by Nick Ravo