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Diallo, a West African immigrant, was shot and killed by four white police officers in the lobby of his Bronx apartment after they mistook a wallet he held in the air for a gun. On Feb. 25, all four officers were acquitted of second-degree murder charges...
Last Friday, four New York City police officers were acquitted of second-degree murder charges in the shooting of Diallo, a West African immigrant. Diallo was struck by 19 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. Officers mistook a wallet that Diallo had held...
While discussions of race have been aggressively squelched in the courtroom, the troubled legacies of Rodney King and Abner Louima haunt the trial of four white New York City police officers accused of murdering African trinket salesman Amadou Diallo. The police say they mistook Diallo's black wallet, which he apparently proffered in an outstretched hand, for a gun, and believing their lives were in danger, the police fired their weapons 41 times...
...When told of an instance last year when Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 mistook astrology for astronomy, Kirshner seems incredulous at first. In an e-mail, Lewis explained to undergraduates that joint concentrations should combine fields that are at least somewhat related to one another, and as an example of a difficult combination, he cited astrology and music...
...murdered a year ago this month in Laramie. After leaving a bar together, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson drove Shepard to a deserted field, beat him savagely, tied him to a wooden fence and left him exposed overnight. A cyclist who found the bloody body the next day mistook it for a scarecrow...