Kadiatou diallo biography of barack obama
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At This Hour
Protests Turn Violent Again; Johnson Cook and Kadiatou Diallo Speak Out; President Obama and Prince William Meet in the Oval Office
Aired December 08, 2014 - 11:00 ET
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JOHN BERMAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR: New protests over the death of Eric Garner and this time they turn violent. Calls for justice tarnished by Molotov cocktails, looting, and tear gas.
MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN CO-ANCHOR: We speak with a mother who knows the agony of losing her son at the hands of police. Kadiatou Diallo lost her son in a hail of bullets. She speaks with us exclusively, ahead @THISHOUR.
BERMAN: And they are young, they are glamorous, and they have those charming accents. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, they are here in the United States. We will tell you the American royalty they might be hanging out with.
Hello, everyone. Great to see yo
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Amadou Diallo was a Guinean immigrant who lived in Manhattan, New York, and is unfortunately best known for being killed by New York City police after he was fired upon forty-one times outside his place of residence. Diallo was born on September 2, 1976, in Liberia to his Guinean parents, Saikou Diallo and Kadiatou Diallo, and was the eldest of their four children. His parents’ business of exporting gemstones between Africa and Asia gave him the opportunity to study in various countries, one of which was Thailand. Diallo studied both computer engineering and English. The latter led him to take an interest in American culture.
After the divorce of Diallo’s parents in 1989, he lived in Bangkok, Thailand, with his mother. He later left Bangkok for Guinea because he wanted to seek a blessing from his elders to study in the United States. In 1997, he arrived in New York City and went to work as a bicycle messenger. He later worked as a street peddler selling gloves, socks, and videos.
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When President Barack Obama decided to allow undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to stay in the country and work, Republicans blew a gasket. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) raised the possibility of impeachment. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) vowed to sue the administration in court to block the move. And Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, accused Obama of putting “partisan politics and olagligt immigrants ahead of the rule of law and the American people.” The GOP line: Obama went rogue and exceeded his constitutional powers.
Yet Kadiatou Diallo and thousands of other undocumented immigrants like her are living proof that Kyl, King, and Smith are unjustifia