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When police killed an unarmed African immigrant in a hail of 41 bullets in 1999, outrage filled the streets of New York.

About 1,200 people were arrested, including elected officials and celebrities, during a month of daily protests. Thousands more marched after four white officers were acquitted in Amadou Diallo's death.

Nine years later, three officers will learn their fate Friday in a case over another heavy police barrage: 50 shots aimed at an unarmed black man outside a nightclub on the morning of his wedding. The city is bracing for more protests if the officers are acquitted.

This time, however, the mood is muted. The New York Police Department has downplayed reports that 1,000 officers will be deployed outside the courthouse in Queens and near the spot where Sean Bell was killed in 2006.

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