Shoe Leather is an investigative podcast that goes behind the scenes of forgotten stories that shaped New York City. Go along with the team as they knock on doors and track down the people who were at the center of the news.

This season we are looking at the aftermath of the killing of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black man who was shot by four white NYPD officers in the Bronx on February 4, 1999. They fired 41 bullets at Amadou while he stood in the doorway where he lived. Nineteen hit him. The first likely killed him.

Amadou’s killing resulted in one of the biggest trials in New York’s history and changes in the NYPD. It led to the conviction of a Bronx serial rapist who had been on the loose for six years. And it inspired art and music.