Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old Black Guinean immigrant male, was killed shortly after midnight on February 4, 1999, in the Soundview section of the Bronx when four plainclothes NYPD officers confronted him outside the vestibule of his apartment building and unleashed 41 shots, 19 of which struck him. The officers—Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss—said they mistook Diallo for a rape suspect and believed the wallet he reached for was a gun. No weapon was found. His
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