Trial by Media (TV Series) 41 Shots (2020) User Reviews

41 Shots

[Whoopz · 6/10 · 4 February 2021]

This is what happens with the current gun laws in the US. Police gets paranoid, and it becomes a question between life and death. I think there was another case similar to this one fairly recently as well.

I disliked the camera angles of the interviews. There's no question they were guilty. It's not even self defense.

Frustrating and Depressing

[standard888 · 8/10 · 16 March 2022]

We've liked how these documentaries deal with how media manipulates what we consider justice in the USA. I had not lived in NYC very long when the police murdered Amadou Diallo. Even to my white Midwestern ears, the police sounded guilty, guilty, guilty. This short documentary brings back the public's frustration and anger at the crazy aggression of Rudy Giuliani and the NYPD, but also how U. S. gun laws (lack of them) yields cops who think everyone--sorry, I mean everyone who's not WHITE is packing and out to kill them. I appreciated the interviews with journalists and former politicians (like Mayor Dinkins), as well as Diallo's mother. It does a good job showing how media "otherized" Mr Diallo, stripping him of his education and family, identifying him as a "poor immigrant street peddler." I believe the police should have been punished, but it is important that we hear this story, too.

Hard to watch

[Calicodreamin · 8/10 · 28 May 2022]

This episode was hard to watch because not having any previous knowledge of this event I foolishly thought "there's no way they got away with this". Well put together doc, short and concise.

Absolutely shocking, innocent, seriously????

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 2 May 2022]

Amadou Diallo, an immigrant in New York chasing a better life, is shot and killed by four white Officers, who discharged 41 bullets.

Unbelievable, the story and outcome will make you feel repulsed, reviled and disgusted by the rotten, corrupt, self serving system. Had Amadou been shot at once, you could argue a mistake was made, 41 shots though, that's a massacre.

Mrs Diallo, what an incredible, balanced, considerate lady, who commands respect, a shame she didn't take to the stand.

I think it's worth remembering what New York was like at the time, crime was rife, a million miles away from what it is now.

The Defence Lawyer, how he can sit that and to this day claim that his clients are innocent, Shocking, however the look of guilt upon his face said it all.

Fortunately things are changing, this was a stark reminder of how corruption works, this was a sickening story.

9/10.