The sad saga of the Amadou Diallo case in the American criminal justice system has come to an end with the Jan. 31 announcement by the Justice Department that it would not prosecute the four New York ...

Relatives of an innocent bystander killed by a slay bullet in a gang-fueled Brooklyn lounge mass shooting are trying to figure out how to tell his beloved young niece and nephew he’s gone. Amadou ...

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The aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell in November both mirrors and contrasts with the case of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant killed in the Bronx in 1999. New York City ...

This morning, the cast of lawyers in the Sean Bell case will meet for the first time the judge who may preside over them for years as they present evidence in the most important police brutality case ...