I find it odd that in describing this racially charged tragedy, the paper doesn't tell us the race of the various police officers involved.  I would imagine that if these guys were undercover in a strip club in a rundown part of Queens that at least some of the police officers would be minority.

Another paper does mention this fact - (Police Commissioner) Kelly emphasized that the five police officers involved were of different races: Two white officers, two black, one Hispanic.

And those were just the cops that fired their guns - there were two others.  Sounds like democracy in action to me.  I don't see how they can make this into a race thing.

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Via Gothamist, a copy of Yoko Ono's message of peace in the NY Times.  Beautifully written.