Do you still remember Amadou Diallo, 22, a street
peddler who emigrated from Guinea in West Africa, to United States of America,
but was killed on February 1999,by four
plainclothes NYPD officers who then fired 41 shots at him, on his Bronx resident,
peppering his body with bullets and killing him, in what the police later said ‘he
matched the description of the suspect in a serial rape investigation.’!
Fast-forward, Sixteen years later, one of those cops, Kenneth
Boss, who fired five of the bullets at him, will be promoted to sergeant this
week,
The extraordinarily grisly circumstances of Diallo’s
death are worth remembering. The four officers—Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll,
Richard Murphy, and Boss—observed Diallo standing outside his building. It was
after midnight, and he had just returned from getting food. The officers later
said he matched the description of the suspect in a serial rape investigation, then
fired 41 shots at him, peppering his body with bullets and nineteen of their
bullets hit him.
Two of the cops Police Officers Edward McMellon, 26,
and Sean Carroll, 35 didn’t stop firing until the 16-bullet cartridges in their
9-mm. handguns were spent.
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