OTMLAW successfully handled and settled a landmark $3 million case against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for the racial profiling and killing of an unarmed man, Amadou Diallo.The lawsuit was instrumental in initiating reform throughout the NYPD to prevent profiling against minorities in New York City.
Omar T. Mohammedi speaks on the Diallo Case on Court TV
2/16/00 The Justice Department has agreed to meet with the parents of slain African immigrant Amadou Diallo to hear their grievances about the murder trial being moved to Albany from the Bronx.
2/22/00 Omar Mohammedi, Esq. quoted on acquittal of officers charged with murder of Amadou Diallo. — A demonstration at the state courthouse in Brooklyn, New York has drawn several hundred protesters chanting against police brutality. Most of the protesters are students. The demonstration was called in the wake of several high-profile cases in New York City involving police alleged police brutality and officers shooting civilians.
1/7/04 OTMLAW settles a $3 Million wrongful death lawsuit against the NYPD. — Almost five years after Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from West Africa, died in a hail of 41 police bullets in the Bronx, his family agreed yesterday to a $3 million settlement of its civil lawsuit against New York City.