Neighbor Testifies in Diallo Shooting
From Times Wire Reports
Amadou Diallo’s next-door neighbor testified at the Albany, N.Y., murder trial of four New York City police officers that, moments after Diallo died in a hail of 41 police bullets, she overheard a man making a remark suggesting a cover-up. “OK. OK. We’re going to say this,” Ida Vincent quoted the unidentified man as saying. Diallo, an unarmed black man, was shot 19 times last February by white plainclothes officers.
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