Word: kadiatou
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...charges that they murdered African immigrant Amadou Diallo, they may have hoped their legal troubles were over. In fact, they may just be beginning. On Tuesday, Diallo's parents filed civil charges against the policemen and the city. It's a hefty suit, complete with symbolism-laden monetary demands: Kadiatou and Saikou Diallo are asking $20 million in damages and $41 million for pain and suffering - one million dollars for every bullet fired on their unarmed...
...dead man's 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...
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...
...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...
...that has four black members out of 12, twice as many as veteran criminal attorneys say they have ever seen in any Albany trial. As a local lawyer puts it, "Teresi won't be another Lance Ito." For the sake of the police, the people of the Bronx and Kadiatou Diallo, he'd better not be. If this trial slides into chaos, there will be no justice and no peace...