Not Funny . . .
. . . but some good timing on the filing of this suit:
Posted: May 10th, 2008 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Law & OrderA Bronx man named Amadou Diallo has hit the NYPD with a wrongful-arrest lawsuit, accusing crass cops of trying to frame him and taunting him because he bears the same name as the victim in the infamous “41-shot” slaying.
“Oh, you’re back from the dead,” the officers crudely joked as they cuffed Diallo, 26, who was stopped while parking his car with his wife in the passenger seat on Feb. 26, according to the suit filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court.
“The fact that plaintiff’s name is Amadou Diallo — a common name in Guinea, Africa, where both plaintiff and the victim of the ’41-shot’ slaying . . . were born — was a source of amusement, laughing and inappropriate joking amongst the officers,” the suit states.
The cops initially told Diallo his headlight was out, but it was only an excuse to search his car on a “hunch,” according to the suit, which comes amid unrest over acquittals in the recent slaying of Sean Bell by cops who fired 50 shots.