Amadou Diallo demonstration - December 1999
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www.grandmarquis.ch Amadou Diallo demonstration - December 1999
Amadou Diallo
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88 Keys
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Abner Louima
Abner Louima (b. 1966 in Thomassin, Haiti) is a Haitian who was assaulted, brutalized and forcibly sodomized with the handle of a bathroom plunger by New York City police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub in 1997.
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Abraham Rodriguez
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Akon
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Anthony David
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Anthony H. Gair
Anthony H. "Tony" Gair (born December 24, 1948) is a New York attorney and Advocate. He is a partner of the law firm Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf, which was founded by his parents in 1945. He looks for cases that are in the public interest. Notably, he represented the family of Amadou Diallo in a case that spurred reform of the New York City Police Department. He lives in New York City.
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Beanie Sigel
Dwight Grant (born on March 6, 1974), also known as Beanie Sigel, is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is in talks with 50 Cent to sign with G-Unit Records and had formed a close association with rappers Jay-Z, Freeway and other former and current artists on the Roc-A-Fella roster. His stage name comes from a street in South Philadelphia, the rapper's former stomping grounds where he worked alongside Senior Durham in the projects. He has sold more than two million albums worldwide.
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Bun B
Bernard Freeman (born March 19, 1970) better known by his stage name Bun B is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK. He recently released his third official solo album Trill OG on August 3, 2010, which received a 5 Mic "Classic" rating in The Source Magazine - the first album in over five years to receive the honor. Bun B is married with two step-children .
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Bunny Wailer
Bunny Wailer, (born '''Neville O'Riley Livingston, April 10, 1947, Jamaica), also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately as Jah B''', is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. He is widely regarded as a musical legend and is considered one of the longtime standard bearers of reggae music. He has been named by Newsweek as one of the three most important musicians in world music.
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Capone-N-Noreaga
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Charlie Huston
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Charlie Rangel
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Common (rapper)
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contagious shooting
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Craig Wolff
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Cunninlynguists
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Damien Marley
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Dave Eggers
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David Dinkins
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Elliott Sharp
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Fabolous
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Fernando Ferrer
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Fula people
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Gregory Meeks
Gregory Weldon Meeks (born September 25, 1953), American politician, has been a liberal Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing New York's 6th congressional district, which includes most of Southeastern Queens including Jamaica, Laurelton, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and Far Rockaway, as well as John F. Kennedy International Airport. His district is made up mainly of middle-class and upper middle-class African-American communities, but also includes a small part of Ozone Park and part of Howard Beach known as Old Howard Beach, both of which are mainly made up of middle-class Italian-Americans. He also represents much of Kew Gardens and northern Richmond Hill, middle-class white and South Asian neighborhoods.
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Harlan Coben
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Immortal Technique
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J-Live
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Jedi Mind Tricks
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Jeffrey McDaniel
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Jemeni
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Jen Chapin
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Jesse Jackson
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Johnny Gammage
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Kool G Rap
Nathaniel Wilson (born July 20, 1968), better known by his stage name Kool G Rap, is an American rapper from the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew. He is often cited as one of the most influential and skilled MCs of all time as he is a pioneer and master of Mafioso Rap/street/hardcore content and multisyllabic rhyming. On his album The Giancana Story, he stated that the "G" in his name stands for "Giancana" (after the mobster Sam Giancana), but on other occasions he's stated that it stands for "Genius".
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KRS-One
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Malcolm Gladwell
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Merauder
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Mischief Brew
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Mos Def
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Mukoma wa Ngugi
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Nicki Minaj
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Ousmane Zongo
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Papoose (rapper)
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Paris (rapper)
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Patrick Dorismond
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Percee P
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Pharoahe Monch
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Posdnous
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Rah Digga
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Roni Size
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Ross Gay
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Roy Campbell, Jr.
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Saigon (rapper)
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Shabaam Sahdeeq
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Shyne
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State Radio
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Sun Rise Above
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Susan Sarandon
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The Game (rapper)
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Wu-Tang Clan
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Wyclef Jean
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Youssou N'Dour
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Zack de la Rocha
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Ziggy Marley
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Bangkok
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Bronx
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Fouta Djallon
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Guinea
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Guinean
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Liberia
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London
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system (OS) market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of OSs. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Microsoft would come to dominate other markets as well, notably the office suite market with Microsoft Office.
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Singapore
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Sinoe County
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Soundview, Bronx
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Thailand
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Togo
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Amadou Diallo shooting
| Name | Amadou Diallo |
|---|---|
| Birth date | September 02, 1975 |
| Birth place | Sinoe County, Liberia |
| Death date | February 04, 1999 |
| Death place | New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | Guinean |
Amadou Diallo (September 2, 1975–February 4, 1999) was a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant in New York City who was shot and killed on February 4, 1999 by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss. The four officers fired a total of 41 rounds. The shooting took place at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx. The four were part of the now-defunct Street Crimes Unit. All four officers were acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.
Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.
Biography
One of four children of Saikou and Kadiatou Diallo, Amadou's family is part of an old Fulbe (Fula or Fulani people) trading family from the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea. He was born in Sinoe County, Liberia, while his father was working there, and grew up following his family to Togo, Bangkok, and Singapore, attending schools in Thailand, and later in Guinea and London, including Microsoft's Asian Institute.In September 1996, he came to New York City where other family members had immigrated. He and a cousin started a business. Diallo had reportedly come to New York City to study but had not enrolled in any school. He sought to remain in the US on a long-term basis by filing an application for political asylum. He sold videotapes, gloves and socks from the sidewalk along 14th Street during the day and studied in the evenings.
Events surrounding death
In the early morning of February 4, 1999, Diallo was standing near his building after returning from a meal. Police officers Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy passed by in a Ford Taurus when they thought Diallo matched the description of a now-captured serial rapist and approached him. The officers were in plain clothes.The officers claimed that they loudly identified themselves as NYPD officers and that Diallo ran up the outside steps toward his apartment house doorway at their approach, ignoring their orders to stop and "show his hands". The porch lightbulb was out and Diallo was backlit by the inside vestibule light, showing only a silhouette. Diallo then reached into his jacket and withdrew his wallet. Seeing the suspect holding a small square object, Carroll yelled "Gun!" to alert his colleagues. Believing Diallo had aimed a gun at them at close range, the officers opened fire on Diallo. During the shooting, lead officer McMellon tripped backward off the front stairs, causing the other officers to believe he had been shot.
The four officers fired forty-one shots, hitting Diallo nineteen times. The post-shooting investigation found no weapons on Diallo's body; the item he had pulled out of his jacket was not a gun, but a rectangular black wallet. The internal NYPD investigation ruled the officers had acted within policy, based on what a reasonable police officer would have done in the same circumstances with the information they had. The Diallo shooting led to a review of police training policy and the use of full metal jacket (FMJ) bullets.
On March 25, a Bronx grand jury indicted the officers on charges of second-degree murder and reckless endangerment. On December 16 a New York appellate court ordered a change of venue to Albany, New York, stating that pretrial publicity had made a fair trial in New York City impossible. On February 25, 2000, after two days of deliberations, a mixed-race jury in Albany acquitted the officers of all charges.
Aftermath
Diallo's death, the change of venue, and the verdict each sparked massive demonstrations against police brutality and racial profiling, resulting in more than 1,700 arrests over the course of many weeks. Those arrested in the daily protests at the entrance of One Police Plaza came from all walks of life, and included former NYPD officers, former mayor David Dinkins, Congressmen Charlie Rangel and Gregory Meeks, the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, New York State Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr., actress Susan Sarandon, as well as British documentary maker Louis Theroux, his camera crew and more than a dozen rabbis and other clergy, and numerous federal, state, and local politicians. Charges against the protesters were later dropped. In 2001 the Justice Department announced that it would not charge the officers with violation of Diallo's civil rights.On April 18, 2000, Diallo's mother, Kadiatou, and his stepfather, Sankarella Diallo filed a US$61,000,000 ($20m plus $1m for each shot fired) lawsuit against the City of New York and the officers, charging gross negligence, wrongful death, racial profiling, and other violations of Diallo's civil rights. In March 2004, they accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement. The settlement was reportedly one of the highest against the City of New York for a single man with no dependents under New York State's restrictive wrongful death law, which limits damages to pecuniary loss by the decedent's next of kin.
Anthony H. Gair, a partner in the law firm of Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf, lead counsel for the Diallo family, argued that Federal Common Law should apply pursuant to Section 1983 of the civil rights act. In April 2002, as a result of the killing of Diallo and other controversial actions, the Street Crime Unit was disbanded. In 2003, Amadou Diallo's mother Kadiatou published a memoir, My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou (ISBN 0-345-45600-9), with the help of author Craig Wolff.
Diallo's death became an issue in the 2005 mayoral election in New York City. Bronx borough president, and mayoral candidate, Fernando Ferrer, who had protested the circumstances of Diallo's death at the time, told a meeting of police sergeants that although the shooting had certainly been a tragedy, there was subsequently a move to "over-indict" the officers involved. This led to criticism of Ferrer by the Diallo family.
The event spurred subsequent social psychology research. Eberhard and colleagues (2004) conducted experiments with black police officers and black civilians which revealed that they were quicker to decide to shoot an unarmed black target than an unarmed white target, and were quicker to decide to shoot an armed black target than an armed white target. White police officers and civilians were less likely to shoot an unarmed black suspect than an unarmed white suspect.
Amadou Diallo is buried in the village of Hollande Bourou in the Fouta Djallon, a highland region in the center of Guinea, West Africa, where his extended family resides.
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In music, Diallo and the shooting incident has been referred to in works by 88 Keys, Aesop Rock, Agnostic Front, Akon, Antipop Consortium, Anthony David, Army of the Pharaohs, Beanie Sigel, Beastie Boys, Big Stan, Blue Scholars, Brothers Keepers, Bunny Wailer, Bruce Springsteen, Bun B, Capone-N-Noreaga, Common, Cunninlynguists, CYNE, Damien Marley, Dead Prez, DMX, dub proof Strike Anywhere, Elliott Sharp, Erykah Badu, Fabolous, Fredro Starr, Gangstagrass, The Game, Greenhouse Effect, Immortal Technique, Jay-Z, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jen Chapin, Jemeni, J-Live, Kool G Rap, KRS-One, Lauryn Hill, Le Tigre, Leftöver Crack, Mash Out Posse, Merauder, Mike Ladd, Mischief Brew, Monsta Island Czars, Mos Def, Nicki Minaj, Northern State, Organized Noise, Papoose, Paris, Percee P, Pharoahe Monch, Posdnous, Public Enemy, Rah Digga, Rage Against the Machine, Roni Size, Roy Campbell, Saigon, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Shyne, Spooks, Sporty Thievz, State Radio, Sun Rise Above, Talib Kweli, Terry Callier, T.o.n.e-Z, Trivium, Wu-Tang Clan, Wyclef Jean, Youssou N'Dour, Zack de la Rocha, and Ziggy Marley.In books and poetry, there are references in works by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lorenzo Thomas, Ross Gay, Dave Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell, Jeffrey McDaniel, Harlan Coben, Inga Muscio, Charlie Huston, Paul Stoller, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Abraham Rodriguez, and Meena Alexander.
In film and television, there are references to the Diallo case in 25th Hour, Phone Booth, Double Take, The Awful Truth, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Boondocks and Tell No One.
The 2004 short "The Adventures of Supernigger" by Alrick Brown allegorically tells the story of the Diallo shooting in a cartoon-like way and is dedicated to Amadou Diallo.
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