Tanya Braganti #2
Taken by Tanya Braganti | Albany, NY | February 2000
What the photographer saw
Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old from Guinea, was shot and killed by four police officers (firing 41 shots) on February 4, 1999. On March 25, 1999, a grand jury indicted the four officers on charges of second-degree murder. In February, 2000, a jury in Albany acquitted the officers of all charges.
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