abner louima, amadou diallo, two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of state violenceve with that fear that it could be one of our brothers or one of our nephews or one of our sons. and i just wish everyone could understand. >> diallo has become a martyr to some, a symbol of a price paid in new york's war against crime. rudolph giuliani has countered the outrage with carefully selected statistics. >> shots fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. >> and steadfast support for the nypd. >> the new york city police department is the most restrained. substantially more restrained. it's among the most restrained police departments in the country. >> many people thought that even though times had progressed, in other ways, some of the images were not that much different than images people might have associated with the '50s and '60s. >> we thought maybe we'd gotten past all this stuff, but it keeps happening. and it was a reminder that while the '90s represented so much growth, so much progress, we still had so much further to go. >> in every society, there is a fragil