Amadou Diallo

In the pre-dawn hours of February 4, 1999, a 23-year-old man named Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, stood on the steps of his own apartment building in the Bronx. He was unarmed and had no criminal record, a hardworking street vendor who was saving money with dreams of attending college. His life, full of promise and aspiration, was about to come to a sudden and violent end in a hail of gunfire that would ignite a firestorm of controversy and outrage across New York City and the nation. ...

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