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Officers Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss, Richard Murphy and Edward McMellon were looking for a rapist when they spotted Diallo at the front door of his apartment building. And though other witnesses saw and heard things from a distance, the only close-up testimony comes from the cops. Officer Carroll's account would be pivotal to the court case. "The way he was peering up and down the block," said Carroll from the witness stand, had made the police suspicious of Diallo. "He stepped backward, back into the vestibule as we were approaching, like he didn't want to be seen...
...York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, both played to type earlier in the tragedy. She called the killing a murder. He lashed out at those who criticized the cops, calling the demonstrations silly, and saw his mayoral approval rating plummet. After the verdict last week, Giuliani reached out to the Diallo family but spent as much energy calling on angry citizens to "put their prejudices and biases aside. We have racism in New York...We also have a vicious form of antipolice bias." The First Lady, who had already apologized for the murder remark, was more cautious in her reaction. She asked...
...them they must acquit a defendant if they believed he reasonably but mistakenly thought he had to use deadly force in response to a threat. After 21 hours of actual deliberation, the jury came down on the side of the police. The Justice Department, which has been monitoring the Diallo case from its inception, said it would look into civil rights violations, though most observers believe it will be hard to fault Teresi's court...
...next move may be the Diallos'. In the fictional life he created to persuade immigration officers to let him stay in America, Amadou Diallo claimed he was a refugee from "ethnic cleansing" in the West African nation of Mauritania, that soldiers had tortured his uncle to death, that they had murdered his parents. Now, his parents, alive, have come back to seek justice for their dead son. After some squabbling, they have settled on how they will administer Amadou's estate. It could be worth a lot, especially if a civil suit against the police department succeeds. It will...
...Kadiatou Diallo cannot yet bring herself to reconcile with the men who killed her son. Last week, the verdict still fresh, her lawyer said that reporters would ask her about Sean Carroll's wish to meet with her. Her response was to fold her arms across her chest. "Only when the person comes and says the truth," she says. "Then forgiveness will come...