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7. Giuliani did something similar in a dozen years ago in NYC.
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 02:05 PM
Mar 2012

An African-American man was accosted by undercover narcs trying to make a sale. Dorismond refused and resisted and the cops shot him to death. Giuliani released a sealed juvenile court record of Dorismond as if to prove the victim wasn't a "choir boy" and to discredit him as deserving to be shot like a criminal.
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Much of the controversy over the Dorismond shooting revolved around then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani who was then in the midst of an abortive United States Senate campaign. His release of Dorismond's sealed juvenile delinquency record immediately after the shooting raised the ire of the African-American community as well as critics of the Mayor. The Mayor's office defended the release because the right to privacy does not survive an individual’s death.[3][5] Giuliani also pointed out that he only wanted to show that Dorismond was "no altar boy."[6] In fact, Dorismond had attended the same Catholic school as Giuliani and had been an altar boy.[7][dead link] Giuliani's actions became a hot-button issue in his Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton and cost him several points in the polls.[8]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dorismond

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