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Amadou Diallo (unarmed 22-year-old West African with no police record)
Johnnie Cochran said he will assemble a dream team of lawyers to hold the New York police "accountable" for the death of an African street peddler . The victim, Amadou Diallo, died after plainclothes policemen fired 41 bullets at him in the vestibule of his apartment building, hitting him 19 times.
Here's how: According to a New York Times survey, 51 percent of all New Yorkers (72 percent of African-Americans) believe most of the police use excessive force; 70 percent think the police often engage in brutality against blacks; 60 percent think that the mayor's response to the Amadou Diallo shooting has made matters worse.
The day four cops are arraigned on murder charges in the Amadou Diallo shooting, the mayor, with characteristic sensitivity, holds a ceremony to rename a city plaza for a policeman.
Rudolph Giuliani defends his handling of the Amadou Diallo shooting to Newsweek . "[The New York Police Department] is not the KKK," he offers.
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