41 Shots . . . and Counting: What Amadou Diallo's Story Teaches Us about Policing, Race, and Justice

by Beth Roy

Book Overview

When four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation. In death, Diallo joined a long list of young men of color killed by police fire in cities and towns all across America. Through innuendos of criminality, many of these victims could be discredited and, by implication, held responsible for their own deaths. But Diallo was an innocent, a young West African immigrant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560940X
• ISBN13: 9780815609407
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"