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Fighting For An Innocent Death - College Term Papers

Fighting For An Innocent Death

The four police officers acquitted of killing Amadou Diallo on the streets of the Bronx in New York should have been found guilty of second-degree murder. Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, and Richard Murphy are each part of the elite Street Crime Unit of the New York City Police Department. McMellon, Boss, and Carroll each have had previous investigations for using their weapons while on duty. Amadou Diallo was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Forty-one shots were fired at Diallo and nineteen actually struck him. He was an unarmed man and Dr. Joseph Cohen concluded after his autopsy “Diallo was paralyzed by one of the first shots, and based on the bullet paths, ...

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into the body of a 22-year-old immigrant form Guinea. In a period of approximately eight seconds all forty-one shots were fired, and like an animal Diallo was killed, in front of his apartment-his sanctuary. Amadou Diallo was a street peddler who sold anything from socks to videotapes. He was a "shy, soft spoken man" with no criminal record (Robinson). Diallo was in the United States legally on a work visa, which would have expired in April of 1999.
After the execution ended, Carroll went to inspect the already deceased body of Amadou Diallo. When he saw there was no gun he immediately began to administer CPR pleading "Don't die! Don't die!" (qtd. in Morganthau). Tom Morganthau author of the article in NewsWeek "Cops in the Crossfire", summed it up best when he said, "Diallo was doomed from the moment the officers got out of the car" (2). These four police officers used unnecessary force. "Neighbors even testified there was a split-second pause in the long sequence of ...

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Added: 3/6/2004 05:08:06 AM
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