History of New York City
Police Terrorism Against
Black/African Men

On December 22, 1994, 29-year old Anthony Baez was
choked to death by police officer Francis X. Livoti in the
University Heights section of the Bronx . In 1998, Livoti was
convicted of violating Baez' civil rights, and two other officers
were convicted of lying on the witness stand at Livoti's trial.

On August 9, 1997, Police Officer Justin Volpe in Brooklyn
sodomized Abner Louima with a broken broom handle in the
70th Precinct bathroom.  Officer Volpe eventually pled guilty
and received a sentence of 30 years in federal prison. Other
officers were also implicated and convicted on charges
stemming from the initial cover-up.

Amadou Bailo Diallo February 4, 1999 was a 23-year-old
immigrant to the United States from Guinea , who was shot
and killed by four New York City Police Department
plain-clothed officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward
McMellon and Kenneth Boss. The four men fired a total of 41
rounds. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and a
firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as
the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both
within and outside New York City .

On March 16, 2000, undercover narcotics detectives shot
Patrick Dorismond to death during a scuffle on Eighth Avenue
in Manhattan . The detectives had approached Dorismond,
an unarmed security guard, to purchase drugs. He attacked
the undercover officer and was killed with one shot by the
officer in self-defense.

In 2003, acting on a bad tip from an informant, police
mistakenly raided the Harlem home of Alberta Spruill, a
57-year-old city worker.  The violence of the incursion literally
scared Spruill to death; she died of a heart attack at the
scene.

On May 22, 2003, 43-year old Ousmane Zongo, an immigrant
from Burkina Faso , was shot four times by Police Officer
Bryan Conroy in a Chelsea warehouse. In 2005, Conroy was
found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to
5 years probation. In 2006, the city awarded the Zongo family
$3 million to settle a wrongful death suit.

On January 24, 2004, Housing Bureau officer Richard Neri, Jr.
accidentally shot to death Timothy Stansbury, a 19-year-old
black man who was trespassing on the roof landing of a
Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project. Stansbury was unarmed
but had apparently startled Neri upon opening the roof door
coming upon the officer. At that point, Neri discharged his
service firearm and mortally wounded Stansbury. Although
Commissioner Kelly stated that the shooting appeared
"unjustified", a Brooklyn jury found that no criminal act
occurred and that the event was a tragic accident. Neri was
thus cleared of all charges. The city later agreed to pay $2
million to settle a lawsuit filed by the Stansbury family. A grand
jury declined to indict Neri but Kelly later suspended him for
30 days without pay and permanently stripped him of his
weapon.

On November 25, 2006, plainclothes police officers shot and
killed Sean Bell and wounded two of his companions, one
critically, outside of the Kalua Cabaret in Queens. No weapon
was recovered. According to the police, Bell rammed his
vehicle into an undercover officer and hit an unmarked NYPD
minivan twice, prompting undercover officers to fire fifty
rounds into Bell 's car. A bullet piercing the nearby AirTrain
JFK facility startled two Port Authority patrolmen stationed
there.  An undercover officer claims he heard one of the
unarmed man's companions threaten to get his gun to settle a
fight with another individual. On April 25, 2008, Justice Arthur
Cooperman cleared Detectives Michael Oliver and Gescard
Isnora manslaughter charges and Detective Marc Cooper of
recklass endangerment in the death of Sean Bell.

On November 12, 2007, five NYPD police officers shot and
killed 18- year-old Khiel Coppin. The officers responded to a
911 call where Coppin could be heard saying he had a gun.
When the officers arrived at the scene, Khiel approached
officers with a black object, which was later identified as a
hairbrush, in his hand and repeatedly ignored orders to stop.
This prompted officers to open fire at Coppin. Of the 20 shots
fired, 8 hit Khiel, who died at the scene.[36] This shooting has
been ruled to be with both NYPD rules for the use of deadly
force and the New York State Penal Law provisions, so no
charges, criminal or administrative, will be filed against these
officers.
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