NYC Police Shooting of Unarmed Man Casts Light on City, Industry Piracy

NYC Police Shooting of Unarmed Man Casts Light on City, Industry Piracy Battle
NEW YORK (AP) - The entertainment industry tagged along when police raided a self-storage warehouse in Manhattan last year.
Private investigators hired by movie and recording industry groups had helped link a space in the warehouse to an alleged criminal operation pirating DVDs and compact discs. They were there when the officers moved in.

The teamwork might have gone unnoticed, if not for the raid's deadly outcome.

Undercover Officer Bryan Conroy was charged last week with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Ousmane Zongo, an unarmed African immigrant working inside the warehouse who was not involved in the alleged pirating scheme.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB4IJBBOVD.html

This is horrible... :( I guess we can chalk up the first casualty in the "war on piracy" ?

I knew this was going to happen when I first read about the raids. I just didn't think it would be a real cop doing the killing.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

officially murderers

Shoot the black man who runs away...

Conroy, disguised as a delivery man, was one of 10 officers who converged on the warehouse where Zongo, 35, of Burkina Faso, was repairing African art and musical instruments.

The officers discovered thousands of bootleg CDs, DVDs and videos stashed inside two storage units. Conroy was guarding the cache when he encountered Zongo.

Though he had nothing to do with the case, Zongo ran away. He led Conroy on a winding chase through a labyrinth of hallways before being shot in the chest, abdomen and upper back.

Never mind the fact that Zongo was confronted with an armed man disguised as a delivery man that fact that he ran and was black was probably more than enough for Conroy to shoot him...

What did he do, get shot in the back, turn around and get shot twice more?