. - the death of amadou diallo is the latest in a series of recent incidents that has new york city'sing in front of his doorway. and he fits a description, apparently, of a suspect in another case. they get out of the car. he begins to turn. - amadou diallo is reaching for his wallet that's mistaken for a gun. - to me, what's most important, was what those men were thinking as they turned the corner onto wheeler avenue before they ever saw amadou. they were thinking, "we own the night." they fire 41 bullets. amadou is struck 19 times. ♪ ♪ - it angers me. it upsets me. - i think he thinks shame is something that a private individual feels. it's not what giuliani feels. i think trump's like that. - i feel terrible about it, and i've apologized for it. - take one. - the night when amadou was killed, i was across the ocean in guinea. that night, my daughter woke me up around 2:00 a.m. this cousin called from new york. and i said to him... [sighs] "is amadou okay?" he said, "why you ask?" i said, "it's not even daybreak in new york." i said, "something is wrong. is my child sick? is amado

the unit faced controversy in 1999 after four plainclothes officers fired 41 shots at amadou diallo,med student outside his apartment building in the bronx, claiming he fit the description of a man wanted for rape. the officers who shot diallo were found not guilty. the unit was disbanded in 2002 after a federal investigation uncovered racial profiling. in 2020, the nypd disbanded all of its plainclothes anti-crime units, the kind responsible for the chokehold death of eric garner. new york city mayor and former police officer eric adams told cnn on monday specialized units aren't inherently bad. >> the units don't create abuse. abusive behavior creates abuse. >> reporter: nearly 25 years later, amadou diallo's mother is still fighting to change police practices. >> i have to hold my heart and i have to let them know that this is a club that we wish we never had to welcome them. and this is a club that no families want to be part of. >> reporter: from philadelphia to baltimore and indianapolis, memphis is the latest example of an all too common cycle, crime rises, police create an ag

the plastic cups covered the shell casings from 41 bullets fired by police after they confronted amadou diallou! amadou! >> in many ways, the '90s ends the way it starts, with a spotlight on violence against black bodies by law enforcement. abner louima, amadou diallo, two people who did not deserve to be on the wrong side of state violence were. >> no justice! >> no peace! >> no justice! >> no peace! >> in our community, we live with that fear that it could be one of our brothers or one of our nephews or one of our sons. and i just wish everyone could understand. >> diallo has become a martyr to some, a symbol of a price paid in new york's war against crime. rudolph giuliani has countered the outrage with carefully selected statistics. >> shots fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. >> and steadfast support for the nypd. >> the new york city police department is the most restrained. substantially more restrained. it's among the most restrained police departments in the country. >> many people thought that even though times had progressed, in other ways, some of the images were not tha

if you remember amadou diallo, you knew in 2006, sean bell. those were black cops. shot 51 times at sean bell on the night before his wedding. so when do we stop becoming episodic and wait on the next tragedy and start dealing with the need for structural change. those in the senate that would not pass the george floyd bill that said that we can't deal with qualified immunity, they are part of the blame of where we are tonight, and we have to keep the pressure on. and they think the unions have political power. we have political power if we use it and say this is nonnegotiable. >> welcome to the show. this was what chief davis said in an interview. four individuals have been killed in altercations in the memphis police, in the last few months. these are all very different situations with different circumstances that led up to a fatal encounter. regardless, will this prompt a review of the use of force policy. this is what she said, it could. i'm not really concerned about that. what i'm concerned about is the fact last year we had an uptick in assaults against offic

i think they've got the lessons, amadou diallo, a number of cases like this.e are specialized units, sort of are in poland by the department, by the mayor, you've got to do something. there are specific things you can, to supervision is key. what was astonishing was, there is no supervisor on scene there. we have almost ten different people, coming so strict supervision, you could be reviewing body worn camera videos. every specialized unit in our country to take a random set of body worn camera videos from those units, and see other dealers citizen. and in strict policies and so forth. i think if you have violent crime, someone has to deal with, it but you just have to make sure that their focus, targeted, and well supervised. >> i quite, slumped on miller, coming up next -- who's been talking about the mar-a-lago classified documents coming up. more breaking, news to more witnesses for the federal grand jury investigating the former president. specifically the mar-a-lago documents. there is that, tonight plus new reporting that the manhattan grand jury's beg

i remember rodney king, but i also remember amadou diallo industry crime unit, 41 shots, he was at 19times. these are units that should not exist but they exist beyond the normal accountability and lines of reporting within police departments. this is incredibly disturbing, and of course, i believe we will continue to see it. >> shermichael, not all cops are bad, right? we are not going to paint a broad swath of saying all cops are bad, but the deterrence is important. i was telling basel before we started, i have an eight-year-old. if you don't have discipline in there isn't consequence to what you do, if it just empty words that you are delivering to your child, there will be no consequence. she is going to run rampant, right? and so what is the difference here? is it cops policing each other? cup saying you shouldn't do that? is it the george floyd justice in policing act coming to fruition, what is the answer in terms of a real deterrent for this type of police misconduct? >> i think it's going to take a combinational things at the local level, the state level, and the federal lev

york city, protests led nypd to shut down its street crimes unit after officers shot and killed amadou diallo999, firing 41 bullets at him as he reached for his wallet outside of his apartment. diallo was unarmed. the officers were acquitted of murder charges. democracy now! spoke with his mother kadiatou diallo in 2014. >> when my son was gunned down in his own vestibule, he was doing nothing wrong. and that night, no one called 911 saying that any crime was being committed, has been committed that night. they just came with their guns drawn and just executed my son. my family and the community at large called for changes. it seems to me that call has not been answered because we keep on seeing many victims of the same similar cases, and even different cases. amy: this comes as new york city mayor eric adams, himself a former police officer who has spoken out against police brutality and says he and his brother were beaten by police as teenagers, now says he plans to restart a controversial nypd anti-crime unit that was broken up after protests over the police killing of george floyd. the un

i was arrested i guess 20 years ago or so in the wake of the killing of amadou diallo, an african immigranth. five years ago i was arrested in the united states capitol fighting for health care and challenging the fact that in the farm bill they were going to take away important benefits for nutritional and food security. well, five years later i'm in the senate and get to write the bill. and what i hear on this day is martin luther king jr. saying to all of us that we need leaders who are not, he said, in love with money but in love with justice, not in love with publicity but in love with humanity, leaders who can subject their own ego to the pressing issues of the cause of freedom. the united states senate and united states congress could benefit from hearing that message right now, centering the people rather than the politicians. >>> coming up, is there a mishandled message about the mishandled documents? how the white house is facing the fallout surrounding president biden and classified material. if you still have symptoms of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or active psoriati