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...with murdering an unarmed black man are free - but the trial of the New York City police department has probably only just begun. On Sunday the Rev. Al Sharpton staged a protest at the U.N. over the controversial verdict: All four officers accused of murdering West African immigrant Amadou Diallo found not guilty Friday evening on 24 counts ranging from murder in the second degree to reckless endangerment. While New York's cops had prepared for the worst, reaction in the city was more bewildered and pained than violent. People began to take sides; Governor George Pataki backed the jurors...
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Legal experts posit that the prosecution knew, from the very beginning, they wouldn't get the murder convictions they asked for - while Diallo's death was bloody, it was not deliberate. It was the horrible by-product of the frayed psyches of young cops. And although the jury is likely to agree that Diallo's parents deserve justice for their son's killing, jurors will likely embrace the opportunity to acknowledge the varying degrees of guilt among the four police officers...
...after all, Carroll, the eldest cop in the car, who was the first to approach Diallo, the first to falsely identify the victim's wallet as a gun, and, arguably, the force that precipitated the barrage of bullets that killed Diallo. A tragic mistake was made, and the political storm surrounding this trial virtually guarantees that someone will have to shoulder the penalty. Sobbing on the stand Monday, Carroll was the embodiment of anguish - and, the prosecution may contend, of the bulk of the guilt...
...Albany Times Union Full Coverage of the Diallo Trial...