Washington - His New York concerts have sold out - but Bruce Springsteen certainly hasn't. So much so that the police officers' union wants members to boycott "the Boss" because of his new song about a police killing.
The song, American Skin, does not mention Amadou Diallo by name. But the repeated line "41 shots" leaves no room for doubt that its subject is the killing of the unarmed West African immigrant by New York police officers in 1999. The president of the Fraternal Order of Police called the singer "a dirtbag".