Amadou Bailo Diallo (
September 2,
1975 –
February 4,
1999) was a 23-year-old immigrant to the
United States from
Guinea, who was shot and killed on
February 4,
1999, by four
New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers; Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss. The four men fired a total of 41 rounds. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside
New York City. Issues such as
police brutality,
racial profiling, and
contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.
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