Amadou Diallo (* 2 September 1975; "† 4 February 1999) was a guinea ashtray immigrant, who was shot on 4 February 1999 in New York town center of four police officers of a department for under in the public highly disputed circumstances.

Diallo was to be studied come to New York town center around computer science, however yet had not registered.

It had been confounded with a looked for series-enormous and should be arrested therefore. When the police officers addressed it before his door, it seized into its jacket. The officials assumed therefore the fact that he would draw a weapon and fired on Diallo. It was met by altogether 19 shots, whereby altogether 41 shots were delivered on it.

Shooting of Diallo excited a proclamation of the civil rights movement, Bruce Springsteen in the USA wrote the song "to American Skin (41 Shots) "about this incident. Also Wyclef Jean wrote a song under the title "Diallo" on its album "The Ecleftic" over Amadou and the incident. The American civil rights movement criticized above all that Diallo had been possible because of at that time still relatively new method of investigation "of the Profiling "as an author, this procedure a certain "systems-inherent racingism "was subordinated. It was also assumed that the policemen would rashly have acted. This was because of it that under the mayor at that time of New York town center Rudolph Giuliani a zero-tolerance strategy was pursued, during whose conversion the New Yorker police constant efficiency controls by the office of the mayor was suspended. The director/conductor of the police stations to each morning their clearing-up numbers had to submit and during default of the defaults were replaced. This achievement pressure was passed on downward by the top officials.

The police officers involved stated to their defense that they would have given to recognize each other before the arrest as police officers. They would have carried for civilian clothes, their badges however clearly recognizably were and them Diallo through loud acclamations to their operational readiness level referred.

A renegotiation at an industrial tribunal in Albany followed a verdict of guilty in New York town center, in which all officials with the reason were acquitted that in New York town center would not have been possible considering the excited public a fair process. The industrial tribunal followed in particular the data of the police officers, who had explained alone from fear of an attack to have shot. The high number of the delivered shots did not oppose these data, because the experiences from a shooting () between FBI agents and two bank robbers supported these data. With the mentioned shooting two bank robbers had shot two FBI agents with fully automatic weapons and had heavily hurt five further, although they by many balls had been met. One this bank robber was to be shot also after 16 body hits still been able back, only 17. Hit - which went into the head - killed him. Besides the 41 shots from four different weapons had been delivered, which proved in opinion of the court that each official for itself assumed that Diallo had deadly is met.

In the USA it is well-known that one left its hands in the range of vision of the police officers with police controls. The police instruction "freeze" knows each child, it in the USA demands the addressed person on immediately absolutely motionlessly to remain. American police officers shoot with the smallest movement after this instruction are made. Background is the extreme ready for violence shank of the social fringe groups, whatever fully automatic weapons with itself lead and inhibitions these do not have against police officers to use.

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