Edward McMellon Sean Carroll Kenneth Boss Richard Murphy
Deaths
Amadou Diallo
Charges
Second-degree murder Reckless endangerment
Verdict
Not guilty
Litigation
Lawsuit filed against city and officers for $61 million; settled for $3 million Daniels, et al. v. the City of New York (class-action lawsuit)
In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss. Carroll later claimed to have mistaken Diallo for a rape suspect from one year earlier.
The four officers, who were part of the Street Crime Unit, were charged with second-degree murder and acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.[1] A firestorm of controversy erupted after the event, as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both inside and outside of New York City. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.
^Medaglia, Angelica. "Amadou Diallo". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
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