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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...
...need to ask you a question." Diallo did not stop, he added, and instead headed to the back of the vestibule. There, Carroll said, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a black object. "Gun!" Carroll screamed, as he fired his weapon at Diallo. Officer Edward McMellon followed suit, and the two cops half-ran, half-fell down the steps of the building...
...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, 'Ed's shot, Ed's shot, I've got to get to him.'" Boss ran toward McMellon, and Carroll backpedaled frantically away from the vestibule. Boss recalls looking up into the vestibule, and seeing Diallo...
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...
INDICTED. SEAN CARROLL, 35, EDWARD MCMELLON, 26, KENNETH BOSS, 27 and RICHARD MURPHY, 26, New York City police officers who fired 41 shots at unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo last month, setting off a storm of protests; on charges of second-degree murder; in the Bronx, New York City...
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