In the Bronx, on March 1, 2000, a 23-year-old Black man named Malcolm Ferguson was fatally shot by an undercover police officer. This incident occurred just a few blocks from where Amadou Diallo had been killed by police a year prior, adding to the tension between the community and law enforcement. Just five days before his own death, Ferguson had been arrested for protesting the acquittal of the officers involved in the Diallo case.
There are conflicting accounts of the moments that led
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