Word: sonly
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...York City, where the killing took place, where it was deemed too explosive to hold a trial, a cold, dull rain deepened the numbness brought on by the news. Anger could muster only brief marches through the Bronx neighborhood where the shooting occurred. One man raised his infant son in the air and pointed to the color of the child's skin. "Shoot him now!" But mostly it was momentary street theater; a demonstration the next day briefly tied up Manhattan traffic, but the shouting soon settled into foul, frustrated meditations on why so many bullets, why so little retribution...
...husband beside her, spoke calmly at a brief press conference, but her words had a touch more emotion when she got to the sanctuary of her hotel room. "No human being deserves to die like that," she told TIME as she imagined the last moments of her son Amadou. "Standing in front of your doorway where you live. Is that a crime? All he was doing was going home...
...good son, the child who always smiled, who never hurt anyone. "He began reading the Koran by himself," Diallo recalls proudly. And always said his prayers, bowing toward Mecca the prescribed five times a day. Perhaps made shy by a youthful stutter, Amadou nevertheless chose to emulate the adventurous example of his father Saikou, a man who had risen from street vendor in West Africa and dodged coups d'etat and other political turmoil to become a businessman with interests in Guinea, Togo, Liberia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. Amadou had seen those troubles and been to those places...
...stay in America, Amadou Diallo claimed he was a refugee from "ethnic cleansing" in the West African nation of Mauritania, that soldiers had tortured his uncle to death, that they had murdered his parents. Now, his parents, alive, have come back to seek justice for their dead son. After some squabbling, they have settled on how they will administer Amadou's estate. It could be worth a lot, especially if a civil suit against the police department succeeds. It will be the Diallo family's chance to make the city accountable for the acts of the SCU, which...
Kadiatou Diallo cannot yet bring herself to reconcile with the men who killed her son. Last week, the verdict still fresh, her lawyer said that reporters would ask her about Sean Carroll's wish to meet with her. Her response was to fold her arms across her chest. "Only when the person comes and says the truth," she says. "Then forgiveness will come...