Town Pays Respects to Shooting Victim
Hundreds of people lined up in the shade of a giant mango tree Tuesday to pay their respects to the family of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean gunned down by New York City police.
Standing in the grounds of the city morgue, shaded by the tree from the blazing equatorial heat, mourner after mourner waited to shake hands with Diallo’s parents.
Other people stood and watched from outside the gates and high walls of the seaside morgue.
“I grieve as a mother grieves for a lost son,” Kadiadou Diallo, the victim’s mother, said as she sat with family members on the porch of the morgue.
Normally, the death of a 22-year-old Guinean in New York would have drawn minimal media attention here, but the Feb. 4 killing by four plainclothes officers sparked allegations of New York police brutality and charges of racism.
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