In the early morning hours of February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old male immigrant from Guinea, stood on the stoop of his Bronx apartment building. His life was about to come to a sudden and violent end in a hail of police gunfire that would ignite a firestorm of controversy and protests across New York City and the nation. Diallo, who worked as a street vendor, was unarmed and had no criminal record. He was saving money with the dream of attending college.
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