Amadou diallo biography books

Entrepreneur, street merchant

Struggled to Get a Start in America

Tragic End Sparked Protests

Funeral and Trial Ignited Many

Street merchant Amadou Diallo wanted a piece of the pie when he moved to America.

Instead he became a martyr for the crusade against police brutality when he was slain by New York City police officers in February of His death ignited a movement to reform police procedures in New York and other cities.

Amadou Diallo was born in Liberia on September 2, He was the oldest of four children born into a well-to-do family from Guinea.

His father, Saikou Diallo, and his mother, Kadiatou Diallo, ran a business exporting gemstones from Africa to Asia. They often went away on business trips to Singapore and Bangkok, Thailand, leaving Amadou and his siblings at home in the family mansion.

Young Amadou later attended French-language private schools in Togo and Thailand, where he studied English and computer engineering. He soon became fluent in Eng