On April 18, 2000, Diallo’s mother, Kadijatou, and his father Saikou Diallo, filed a US$61,000,000 ($20m plus $1m for each shot fired) lawsuit against the city and the officers, charging gross negligence, wrongful death, racial profiling, and other violations of Diallo’s civil rights.
In March 2004, they accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement.
The much lower final settlement was still reportedly one of the largest in the City of New York for a single man with no dependents under New York State’s “wrongful death law”, which limits damages to pecuniary loss by the deceased person’s next of kin.
Anthony H. Gair, lead counsel for the Diallo family, argued that Federal common law should apply, pursuant to Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act.
In April 2002, as a result of the killing of Diallo and other controversial actions, the Street Crime Unit was disbanded.
In 2003, Diallo’s mother published a memoir, My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son, Amadou (ISBN 0-345-45600-9), with the help of author Craig Wolff.
Diallo’s death became an issue in the 2005 mayoral election in New York City.
Bronx borough president and mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer, who had protested the circumstances of the killing at the time, later told a meeting of police sergeants that although the shooting had certainly been a tragedy, there was subsequently a move to “over-indict” the officers involved, which led to criticism of Ferrer by the Diallo family and many others following the case.
On March 13, 2015, Capital New York and other news organizations reported that 50 of the 15,000 IP addresses (0.3%) belonging to the NYPD were associated with edits, dating back to 2006, to English Wikipedia articles, including this article on the Amadou Diallo shooting.
It is not known how many of the 50 are associated with edits to this article.
These IP addresses geolocate to NYPD headquarters at 1 Police Plaza.
Detective Cheryl Crispin, a NYPD spokeswoman, said that “the matter is under internal review.”
Amadou Diallo is buried in the village of Hollande Bourou in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea, West Africa, where his extended family resides.
Sources : African-Research.com
