THE DIALLO MASSACRE

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                Amadou Diallo was an immigrant in the United States from Guinea. On the night of February 4^th 1999, he was shot at by four policemen in plain clothes in NewYork. The officers were Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss. The police officers mistook Diallo to be a rape suspect from a year before. They emptied forty one rounds which nineteen hit him outside his apartment at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx. They were later charged with second degree murder but were acquitted at a court in Albany Newyork.

                Amadou was unarmed. After the shooting, a mountain of controversies fueled outrage both within and outside Newyork. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.

                Amadou One of four children of Saikou and Kadijatou Diallo. He was part of the fulbe tribe. He belonged to a family of traders in Guinea. . He was born in Sinoe County, Liberia, on September 2, 1975 while his father was working there, and grew up following his family to Togo, Bangkok and Singapore. He attended schools in Thailand, and later in Guinea. In September 1996, he came to New York City where other family members had immigrated. He and a cousin started a business. According to his family's lawyer, Kyle B. Watters, he sought to remain in the United States by filing an application for political asylum under false pretenses, saying that he was from Mauritania and that his parents had been killed in fighting to buttress his claim that he had credible fear of going back to his country. He worked as a street peddler, selling video cassettes, gloves and socks from the sidewalk along 14th Street during the day.

                The post-shooting investigation found no weapons on Diallo's body; the item he had pulled out of his jacket was not a gun, but a rectangular black wallet. The internal NYPD investigation ruled the officers had acted within policy, based on what a reasonable police officer would have done in the same circumstances with the information they had. The Diallo shooting led to a review of police training policy and the use of full metal jacket (FMJ) bullets. On March 25, 1999, a Bronx grand jury indicted the four officers on charges of second-degree murder and reckless endangerment. All four officers' bail were set at $100,000. On December 16, an appellate court ordered a change of venue to Albany, New York, stating that pretrial publicity had made a fair trial in New York City impossible. On February 25, 2000, after two days of deliberation, a jury in Albany acquitted the officers of all charges. Officer Kenneth Boss had been previously involved in an incident where an unarmed black man was shot: 22-year-old Patrick Bailey died after Boss shot him on October 31, 1997. As of 2012, Boss is the only remaining officer working for the NYPD. After his acquittal, Boss was disarmed and reassigned to desk duty. In October 2012, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly restored Boss' ability to carry a firearm against the protests of Diallo's family. On December 17, 2015, Kenneth Boss received a promotion to the rank of sergeant despite objections from the victim's mother and civil rights activists. Boss was promoted in accordance to police policy, On April 18, 2000, Diallo's mother, Kadijatou, and his father Saikou Diallo, filed a US$61,000,000 ($20m plus $1m for each shot fired) lawsuit against the city and the officers, charging gross negligence, wrongful death, racial profiling, and other violations of Diallo's civil rights. In March 2004, they accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement. The much lower final settlement was still reportedly one of the largest in the City of New York for a single man with no dependants under New York State's "wrongful death law", which limits damages to pecuniary loss by the deceased person's next of kin which is not subject to review by top department officials.

               

                Amadou Diallo is buried in the village of Hollande Bourou in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea, West Africa, where his extended family resides       

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