Since my family was victims to a police department I have heard of so many African Americans who are victims at the hands of law enforcement. There was a murder of NYPD Cop Shoots and Kills Unarmed 18-Year-Old Ramarley Graham in The Bronx, A college football player from Massachusetts is dead after police in New York shot at his car during a bar brawl. New York officials' greatest fear is a repeat of the Amadou Diallo affair in 1999, from which the city's race relations took years to recover. Diallo was a Guinean immigrant who was killed in a hail of 41 police bullets after he reached for his wallet at the entrance to his block of flats. The four white officers involved in that incident were all acquitted of wrongdoing. The Sean Bell shooting incident took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States on November 25, 2006, when three men were shot a total of fifty times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers, killing one of the men, Sean Bell, on the morning before his wedding, and severely wounding two of his friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman.[1] The...
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