His parents were Saikou and Kadijatou Diallo He had 3 siblings. Amadou was part of a historic Fulbe trading family in Guinea. He was born in Sinoe County in Liberia on September 2, 1975, while his father was working there, and grew up following his family to Togo, Bangkok, Singapore, Thailand, and back to Guinea. […]
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On April 18, 2000, Diallo’s mother, Kadijatou, and his father Saikou Diallo, filed a US$61,000,000 ($20m plus $1m for each shot fired) lawsuit against the city and the officers, charging gross negligence, wrongful death, racial profiling, and other violations of Diallo’s civil rights. In March 2004, they accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement. The much lower final […]