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Students Prepare Exhibit on Diallo

The BLSA also plans to form a "solidarity line" of 41 students this afternoon on the HLS campus, representing the 41 bullets that police fired at Diallo.

BLSA members have written a letter to the Harvard Law Record, an HLS publication, expressing their outrage over the Diallo verdict, and have urged professors to discuss it in their classrooms.

BLSA's efforts, which are part of a national campaign to raise awareness about the Diallo case, will culminate next Wednesday in a candlelight vigil.

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"We're mourning the death of justice," Lewis said.

"I want to do all that I can do now to prevent [my family] from becoming a victim of racial profiling and police brutality," she added. "No one should have to live in fear that they, a family member, or a friend will die at the hands of the people who are supposed to provide protection for us all."

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