NEW YORK (Court TV) — As Amadou Diallo's parents prepared to meet with Justice Department officials Thursday, several minority lawmakers unhappy with the four NYPD officers' acquittal said they planned to boycott Monday's scheduled session on the state of the Legislature.

Last Friday, an Albany jury acquitted officers Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy of all charges in Diallo's shooting death. Diallo was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets in the vestibule of his Bronx home last February. The officers said they thought the victim was armed and aiming a gun at them when they opened fire. However, Diallo was unarmed, having only a wallet, a beeper and his keys when he was struck 19 times.

Several African-American and Latino members of the New York Senate have vowed to boycott Monday's session on the state of the Legislature to protest the failure to pass bills to combat police brutality. Among the bills that the Legislature has failed to pass in recent years are those requiring New York police officers to establish the suspect's place of residence before making an arrest and those limiting the number of rounds in officers' guns.

The lawmakers are urging their colleagues to attend a rally Monday outside the Bronx building where Diallo was killed. Approximately 30 members of the New York State Legislature's Black and Puerto Caucus reportedly plan to attend.

The outrage over the officers' acquittal continues as the Rev. Al Sharpton and the victim's parents, Kadiatou and Saikou Diallo, plan to meet with Justice Department officials and ask them to prosecute officers Carroll, McMellon, Boss and Murphy on federal civil rights charges. The Diallos have also indicated that they plan to file a wrongful death suit against the officers and New York City. Outside the Justice Department building in Washington, D.C., hundreds of protesters and Diallo supporters are expected to stage a rally. Several Washington-bound busloads of protesters left Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem this morning.

Undoubtedly, in addition to the verdict, the protesters will denounce another fatal shooting of an unarmed black man that occurred just blocks away from Diallo's building. On Wednesday night, 23-year-old drug suspect Malcolm Ferguson was shot in the head during an alleged struggle with a narcotics officer in an apartment building. His shooting brought over 200 protesters still angry over the Diallo verdict into the streets of Soundview. Officers trying to control the crowd were greeted with curses, threats and an occasional thrown bottle.

Ferguson, who had a five-year history of drug arrests, was arrested Friday during a protest after the Diallo verdict. The officer in the shooting, identified as Luis Rivera, has reportedly invoked his right not to talk to investigators for 48 hours.