Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant, was tragically killed on February 4, 1999, in the Bronx, New York. Diallo was standing outside his apartment building when four plainclothes officers from the New York City Police Department's Street Crime Unit approached him. The officers, Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss, were on the lookout for a serial rapist in the area. Mistaking Diallo for the suspect, they ordered him to show his hands. Diallo, likely confused
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