The Death of Amadou Diallo - Who Was Responsible?
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10
ABSTRACT:
This 10 page report discusses who was responsible for the shooting death of 22 year old Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, in February of this year. The four police officers indicted for the killing have been charged with “intentional murder and murder with depraved indifference to human life.” Diallo had no criminal record and was, by all accounts, a devout, law-abiding Muslim who, in no way, provoked the attach in which 41 bullets were fired by the police, 19 of them hitting Diallo. Asking who or what was to blame for the killing is something of an exercise in futility. Numerous factors played equally important roles in the tragedy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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File: D0_BWamadou.rtf
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