For this episode, you have the description wrong. This Law & Order episode is actually based on Abner Louima. Louima was a Haitian who after interceding in a fight between men and women was identified by a NYPD police officer as the one who sucker-punched him. Based on that officer's statement, Louima was arrested. Following his arrest he was assaulted along with sodomized in the NYPD bathroom. Louima did not die from the assault that took place on August 9, 1997. The case that this Law & Order references to slightly is that of Amadou Diallo which took place on February 4, 1999. Diallo was a Guinea immigrant who was in the process of entering his apartment. 4 NYPD officers in plain clothes mistakenly took him for a serial rapist. Diallo was in the process of reaching for his wallet which the officers could not see due to the porch light being blown. They proceeded to fire their weapons at Diallo 42 bullets times based on one officer mistaken Diallo's wallet for a weapon. Due to all public attention that this incident received, the trial had to be moved to Albany, New York where all four NYPD officer's were acquitted of the crime. I ask that you please correct this mistake since both are not only well known cases but in all fairness to those it affected.
Review of Law & Order: Trial by Jury
