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N.Y. policeman testifies in immigrant murder case
The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — A third policeman charged in the shooting death of an unarmed immigrant testified yesterday that he started firing because he was certain his partner had been shot.
Officer Kenneth Boss said that when he got out of his unmarked patrol car outside the building where they encountered Amadou Diallo, he spotted Officer Ed McMellon lying on the ground.
"Ed was shot. That's all I could see," Boss said on the stand yesterday at the four officers' murder trial.
Boss said that he saw Diallo, a West African immigrant, in the rear of the vestibule of his New York City apartment building and that he fired because he thought he saw a gun.
The officer, Richard Murphy, later took the stand and gave a similar account. "There was not a doubt in my mind that [Dialio] had a gun. There was a feeling in my stomach that I was going to be hit at any second."
After Murphy's testimony, the trial was recessed until today.
Boss said that when the gunfire ended —
the four officers fired 41 shots, hitting Diallo
19 times — he ran to McMellon.
"I grabbed him and I started feeling his chest going. 'Where are you hit, where are you hit?' ... He said, "I'm not hit."
Diallo was holding his wallet, not a gun.
Boss said he went to his car and called for
an ambulance and police supervisor.
"I use distress." He said.
I was instructed, he said.
Diallo's slaying by the white officers on the night of Feb. 4, 1999, touched off widespread protests about alleged police abuse of minorities and an appeals court moved the case to Albany.
Officer Sean Carroll, the first officer to testify, claimed Monday that Diallo, a 22-year-old street vendor, fit the general description of a wanted rapist. He also said he suspected that Diallo might be committing a robbery because he was acting suspiciously.
"At the time what went through my mind was that we had a fleeing suspect." Boss said. "It didn't occur to me if he spoke English or not, or whether he was running because he was trying to get away from police or whether he was afraid of the police."
The defendants have pleaded innocent to second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
IRA withdraws from negotiations
The Associated Press
BELFAST. Northern Ireland — Stung by Britain's decision to suspend Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, the IRA deepened the province's political crisis yesterday by breaking off negotiations on disarmament.
In a hard-line statement, the Irish Republican Army accused Britain and the province's major Protestant party, the Uister Unionists, of ignoring its disarmament proposals.
"Both the British government and the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party have rejected the propositions put to the [disarmment commission] by our representative. They obviously have no desire to deal with the issue of arms except on their own terms," an IRA representative said.
It was the IRA's failure to disarm that triggered the recent crisis, and lead Britain to suspend Northern Ireland's fledgling Protestant-Catholic government Friday.
Hours after the suspension, the IRA suggested it would be prepared to put its weapons stockpiles beyond use in certain political circumstances — a euphemism for disarmament. That shift broke new ground for the IRA, but it fell short of the clear-cut commitments being sought by the Ulster Unionists. In its statement yesterday, the IRA said it was withdrawing the offer.
Meanwhile, both Britain and Ireland were working to turn the process around.
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