Jury Is Chosen in Trial of 4 Officers

A 12-member jury including four blacks was seated in Albany, N.Y., for the trial of four white New York City police officers charged with murdering an unarmed African immigrant in a barrage of 41 bullets. Amadou Diallo, 22, was gunned down last February in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx, shot 19 times by members of an elite street-crime unit who said they thought the street vendor was armed. The trial was moved to Albany after an appeals court ruled that the publicity made it impossible to find an impartial jury in New York. According to 1990 census figures, the Bronx is about 39% white, Albany County about 89%.