Man with same name as slain immigrant sues NYPD

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NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx man has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was taunted and falsely arrested by police officers after they learned that he had the same name as a West African immigrant shot to death by other officers in 1999.

Amadou Diallo said he was parking his car in Harlem in February when a group of officers confronted him over a broken headlight, and then searched his vehicle for weapons.

Once the officers learned his name, Diallo’s lawyer said in the suit, it became “a source of much amusement, laughing and inappropriate joking amongst the officers, with crude and disgusting comments.”

“Oh, you’re back from the dead,” one of the officers told Diallo, the suit claimed.

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NYPD guys still keeping their reputation great...

[Guest feraldan]

Guilty until proven innocent.

[Guest]

Guilty until proven innocent.

lol that seems to be the emtbravo way!

actually, i said what i said because it sounds like the cocky NYPD arrogance that I know

but yes innocent til proven otherwise