Following up, more local news from the Western Regional Office of the New York Civil Liberties Union, a little more than a week after the Department of Justice ended its oversight of the Buffalo Police Department, enacted in 2002 after numerous brutality claims as well as questionable use of pepper spray and chemical agents, a Buffalo Police car is involved in an accident with another car and a house in Buffalo's Kaisertown neighborhood after a policeman's pepper spray discharges within the car. In all four people are sent to local hospitals, leaving the NYCLU to wonder if the Department of Justice went far enough in its training oversight of the Buffalo Police Department. The community is still waiting for a promised report from both the Feds and BPD --a report promised nearly two weeks ago.
In our final segment this week, at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military is currently conducting the first American war crimes trial since World War II -- the military commission of Salim Hamdan, the driver for Osama bin Laden.
