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Officer Sean Carroll's testimony was searing. He outlined the events of the night Diallo died in a calm, sad voice, looking down during most of his time on the witness stand. He testified that he and his companions spotted Diallo from their car as they were cruising one of the Bronx neighborhoods on their beat. To the officers, Diallo looked "suspicious," and as he "darted" into a vestibule, the police decided to question him. They approached him, Carroll said, calling out, "Police! Sir, please stop. We need to ask you a question." Diallo did not stop, he added...
...this point in his testimony, Carroll broke down and sobbed as he remembered approaching Diallo after the shooting stopped, his heart sinking as he realized Diallo was clutching a black wallet, rather than a gun. Carroll recalled kneeling beside Diallo, stroking his hand, saying over and over, "Please don't die, please don't die. Come on, keep breathing...
Boss, who was driving the unmarked car down Wheeler Avenue the night Diallo was shot, ran through identical accounts of the incident under direct questioning and under cross-examination. His testimony had a smooth, almost scripted cadence to it - it was hard to remember he wasn't acting in a mercilessly rehearsed play. Boss, 28, recounted his partners getting out of the car to question Diallo. Moments later, Boss heard gunshots, and ran toward steps leading to the vestibule, just as McMellon, as Boss put it, "came flying off that top step, landing on the ground. I thought...
When Boss reached McMellon again, he asked him, "Where are you hit?" McMellon responded, "I'm not hit." Was he surprised by that response, his lawyer asked Boss. "Yes, yes I was." Boss climbed back up to the vestibule, and approached Diallo. "I saw what should have been a gun was a wallet," he said. "It was on the tips of his fingers, outstretched. I yelled, 'Where's the f---ing gun?'" Then, he says, he ran, trying to figure out where he was, to get an address, so he could radio for help. The defense played the tape...
Despite their relative lack of passion, Boss and Murphy both successfully underscored what their defense hopes will save their case: The officers felt their lives were in immediate danger, and saw, in the form of Diallo's wallet, a gun pointing right at them...