41 Shots . . . and Counting: What Amadou Diallo's Story Teaches Us About Policing, Race, and Justice (repost)
41 Shots . . . and Counting: What Amadou Diallo's Story Teaches Us About Policing, Race, and Justice By Beth Roy
Publisher: Sy racu se Univ ersity Press 2009 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 081560940X | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Sy racu se Univ ersity Press 2009 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 081560940X | PDF | 2 MB
When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation. In death, Diallo joined a long list of young men of color killed by police fire in cities and towns all across America. Through innuendos of criminality, many of these victims could be discredited and, by implication, held responsible for their own deaths. But Diallo was an innocent, a young West African immigrant doing nothing more suspicious than returning home to his Bronx apartment after working hard all day in the city. Protesters took to the streets, successfully demanding that the four white officers be brought to trial. When the officers were acquitted, however, horrified onlookers of all races and ethnicities despaired of justice.