Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice, writes _stopdropnroll_
In 2002, in the wake of Diallo’s death and the officers’ acquittal, the street crimes unit of the New York City Police Department — the plain-clothes unit to which the cops who killed Diallo belonged — was disbanded. Despite that change, plain-clothes officers continued to be involved in controversial shootings in the city. — another set of plain-clothes units involved in high-profile shootings — were disbanded.
She’s currently working on a painting dedicated to “all the people fighting the fight to change policing and racism”.a photojournalist, posted a photo on her Instagram account earlier this month of Kadiatou Diallo mourning her son at a vigil held on the first anniversary of his death. These systems have become the target of protesters who are aiming for a massive redistribution of local budgets, in an effort to defund police departments and pump that money into social services, rather than introduce incremental policing reforms.
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