21.   Closing arguments were to begin today in the trial of four white officers accused of killing the unarmed black immigrant.

22.   Demonstrators have been holding rallies outside police headquarters for nearly two weeks in protest against the shooting of unarmed West African immigrant.

23.   Diallo, an unarmed black African immigrant, was shot to death last year by four white officers.

24.   Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, was shot down by the officers last year in a flurry of bullets outside his Bronx apartment building.

25.   He spoke at an interfaith healing service several days after four police officers went on trial in the shooting of the unarmed immigrant.

26.   Nearly two years after fatally shooting an unarmed African immigrant, four white police officers have learned they will not face federal prosecution.

27.   New York has had to deal with the fallout from the police torture of Abner Louima and the shooting of an unarmed immigrant, Amadou Diallo.

28.   The black activist has led several marches criticizing police in the past, most recently for the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant earlier this year.

29.   The shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant by four police officers will echo in the way that the New York Police Department identifies possible suspects.