Law enforcement officials said the media exacerbated their problems by misinforming the public.
"I think we did a bad job," said William Celester, former Commander of Boston Police Area B, where the shooting occurred.
But, Celester said, "the media drove the story" and engaged in "knowing misinformation." The police had a generally good relationship with the black community that was ignored by the media, he said.
The media representatives said today's reporters are more sensitive about racial issues and would be more critical about Stuart's story if it happened today.
But audience members and most of the panelists raised concerns that the same kind of tragedy could occur again.
"The Stuart case is alive and well because things have not changed that much," said Leonard C. Alkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Charlene Morrisseau, a second-year law student and president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, said the media still reports on shootings in black schools as an "inner-city" problem while shootings in white schools are the nation's problem.
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