Word: diallo
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...festival's program included a tribute to Diallo, a black immigrant who was shot by four white police officers...
...mother had allowed herself a measure of despair. Her shoulders slumped; her bearing, which had been formidable in the face of four weeks of graphic testimony, finally gave way. As the 24th verdict was uttered, she clutched her brother's hand. Then, with the court adjourned, Kadiatou Diallo walked out, tears streaming down her face, refusing to make eye contact with the four defendants and their families, who were giving themselves up to elation, hugging and making the sign of the cross. The Muslim woman, her ex-husband beside her, spoke calmly at a brief press conference, but her words...
Television had humanized the defendants, and audiences were both perturbed and moved by their relief at acquittal. "They are suffering," said John Patten, the attorney for Officer Sean Carroll. "This has been terribly difficult for them." Kadiatou Diallo sensed all that. The trial, she says, was for the benefit of the four policemen. "Amadou did not come out here," she says. "It was limited to the people who were on trial. No one came to know who Amadou really was." She does not want people to forget who he was and what happened...
...good son, the child who always smiled, who never hurt anyone. "He began reading the Koran by himself," Diallo recalls proudly. And always said his prayers, bowing toward Mecca the prescribed five times a day. Perhaps made shy by a youthful stutter, Amadou nevertheless chose to emulate the adventurous example of his father Saikou, a man who had risen from street vendor in West Africa and dodged coups d'etat and other political turmoil to become a businessman with interests in Guinea, Togo, Liberia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. Amadou had seen those troubles and been to those places...
...home for Amadou Diallo was an apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx. It was just after midnight, a time when the city's elite Street Crime Unit could often be seen patrolling the poorest neighborhoods. The SCU's motto said as much: We Own the Night. The unit had been expanded, perhaps too quickly, from 150 undercover officers to nearly 400. Recruits were given only three days of intensive training. The unit belonged to no precinct and was based on one of the islets in the East River, isolated from every borough but having the freedom...