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Amadou Diallo, 22, West African immigrant, was shot 19 times in February in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment by four plainclothes police officers. Diallo, a street peddler, was unarmed. The officers, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, Kenneth Boss, and Richard Murphy, were all indicted on two counts of second-degree murder. They all pleaded not guilty and were freed on bail.
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