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Forty-one shots cut through the night You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule Praying for his life A couple of decades ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote American Skin (41 Shots) about the killing of the 22-year-old Liberian immigrant, Amadou Diallo. Diallo was gunned down outside his apartment building in New York while reaching for his wallet. Nineteen of the forty-one shots hit him, and though the police officers went on trial for second-degree murder, they were all acqui