Kadiatou Diallo on a mission for balance, police accountability
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 03:26PM
TheSpook
Since her son's death five years ago in a hail of bullets fired by four
undercover police officers in the Bronx, Kadiatou Diallo has been on a
mission. Inspired in part by prayer, Diallo's speaking tours on behalf
of her son, Amadou, are also about protest and resolution. Amadou
Diallo was shot 19 times in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment
building on Feb. 4, 1999, by officers who said they mistook his wallet
for a gun. All four were acquitted of murder charges. The killing
brought his mother from the political turmoil of West Africa to the
racial storm in New York stirred up by the controversy over racial
profiling. [more 
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