An Inclusive Litany

4/11/00

After four white police officers in Riverside, California, shot and killed a 19-year-old black woman who was sitting unresponsively inside an idling, locked car with a .38-caliber gun on her lap, the city sued the gun manufacturer, claiming the firm failed to educate or train users in gun safety and proper usage. Community activists say the lawsuit is an effort to shift blame from the officers who shot the woman.