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'''Location:''' Mural on the corner of Wheeler and Westchester Avenues in the Bronx, New York. | '''Location:''' Mural on the corner of Wheeler and Westchester Avenues in the Bronx, New York. | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' The mural depicted Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, West Africa. On Feb. 4, 1999, | '''Description of Artwork:''' The mural depicted Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, West Africa. On Feb. 4, 1999, Diallo was shot forty-one times by four police officers who claimed they thought he had pulled a gun. He died as he stood in the vestibule of his apartment building. The mural also depicted a skeletal Statue of Freedom holding aloft a pistol with a pile of skulls at its feet, four New York City police officers wearing the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan and the United States flag in flames. | ||
'''The Incident:'''This controversial mural was vandalized when someone had used black paint to erase the images of the officers. The vandal remains unknown. "It’s going to be taken down,” Sgt. Frank Sorensen said after he scanned the mural. Joseph Berrero, the owner of the curio shop where the mural was painted, was upset also and said that he liked the idea of having some kind of memorial for Mr. Diallo, but that he was opposed to Mr. Waldroup’s depiction of the police, the flag and the Statue of Liberty. Except for the portrait of Mr. Diallo, he wanted everything on the mural covered. | '''The Incident:'''This controversial mural was vandalized when someone had used black paint to erase the images of the officers. The vandal remains unknown. "It’s going to be taken down,” Sgt. Frank Sorensen said after he scanned the mural. Joseph Berrero, the owner of the curio shop where the mural was painted, was upset also and said that he liked the idea of having some kind of memorial for Mr. Diallo, but that he was opposed to Mr. Waldroup’s depiction of the police, the flag and the Statue of Liberty. Except for the portrait of Mr. Diallo, he wanted everything on the mural covered. | ||