[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H518]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST INSTITUTE AN INVESTIGATION IN THE CASE OF 
                             AMADOU DIALLO

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, last week the Amadou Diallo 
family suffered a double tragedy, the loss of their son with 41 shots 
and 19 bullets to the body, and then a sense of injustice in our 
judicial system.
  This is not a comment on that judicial process or the deliberations 
of the jury. It is simply a statement to America that we must stop 
tolerating man's inhumanity to man: an unarmed individual, an immigrant 
seeking only opportunity, not definitively told that police were asking 
him to stop, and in front of his own home.
  I applaud the New Yorkers who have marched in peace, and I ask for 
Americans to join hands in peace, but at the same time, it is now 
appropriate for the Federal government to move in and to do a thorough 
and rightful investigation to determine whether or not Mr. Diallo's 
civil rights were violated.
  Only when America understands that we are truly one America and that 
every life is precious, no matter how you came to this country, will we 
meet the promise for Americans for the 21st century.

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