When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one Shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation.
But Diallo was an innocent, a young West African immigrant doing nothing more suspicious than returning.
Through innuendos of criminality, many of these victims could be discredited and, by implication, held responsible for their own deaths.
In death, Diallo joined a long list of young men of color killed by police fire in cities and towns all across America.
When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one Shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation