Sharpton Calls For Change After Police Shooting Of Unarmed Man

This happened a few blocks from where I work. The area which used to be the flower district has become like a African Bazaar. All the streetsa are lined with immigrants selling counterfeit crap and other really cheap items. Movies, cheap sneakers, phones, gold chains, cds, clothing, etc. IT's so bad you can't walk down some of the streets. Last week around the corner, one man stabbed another to death in a territorial dispute at the 28th & bway corner right above the N train stop. Pirate CDs and DVDs. there have been several shootings and high profile police busts in the neighborhood in the last 6 monehts. The streets really are becoming scary. I hope the police do keep busting this criominaqls because weapons and drugs have been involved in the cases i read about.

BTW Sharpton, you should not struggle with a NYPD cop reaching for his gun and expect to live.

The mistake is that we are going to keep cooperating with our own inactivity.

Now there's a well turned phrase.

This story fails to mention that the illegal alien African spoke no English. I've read alot about the violence connected to the counterfeiting rings, people jumping out of windows, etc. I'm not convinced that this man was innocent.

Zango was shot Thursday during a struggle with a plainclothes officer after being chased down a hallway at a Chelsea storage facility, where police were raiding a bootleg CD and DVD operation. Police admit the African immigrant, who worked in the building, had nothing to do with the counterfeiting, but say he tried to grab the officer’s gun.

**News Flash**

If you break the law, run from a cop, struggle with him, and then try to take his gun...you may get shot!

Sharpton's comments don't even deserve a reply.

The incident started when the cop chased Zongo, who got out of the elevator on the floor where the action was taking place. There is no indication of why the cop did this.

I believe it was all a mistake, and that Zongo, an illiterate African, thought the cop was some kind of robber or lunatic who was after him. The cop was not in uniform, and it was dark.

Noone should be shot while unarmed. Why didn't the guy have a gun? If the honest people were armed, the dishonest ones would probably find another place to go.

Do ya think he was an illegal alien? any bets?

Do ya think he was an illegal alien? any bets?

From Cop who shot, killed immigrant is Island resident

More about Zango:

"Zango did not havea criminal record, although he was in the United States illegally because his most recent visa expired in 2001."

More about Conroy:

Conroy participated in a similar raid on May 15 when he and the conditions unit raided a basement warehouse on West 28th Street in Manhattan. The raid produced the arrest of one suspected counterfeiter and the seizure of more than 20,000 bootleg discs and tapes.
Conroy's other notable collars include the arrest of Farris Summers, a 54-year-old man who was found with a huge cache of weapons and Xanax anti-anxiety tablets when the conditions unit executed a search warrant in his Dongan Hills home on Nov. 1, 2002.
Conroy and his partner, John Downey, also nabbed a 19-year-old New Brighton man just minutes after the teen robbed a man at gunpoint at the corner of Bay Street and Victory Boulevard in Tompkinsville on Feb. 14, 2002.
Downey and Conroy also been embroiled in a controversy in April 2002 when an unidentified thief stole a book of blank summons forms from their patrol car while it was parked outside the 120th Precinct stationhouse in St. George.
Two summonses taken from the stolen book were later found placed inside the official summons box at the 120th Precinct's main desk. Disparaging comments about a pair of police supervisors had been written on the two summonses.
The theft and the subsequent discovery of the disparaging comments prompted an internal police investigation, but no disciplinary action was ever announced.

The cop was not in uniform

This should be illegal. Cops on a raid should all be in uniform.

Ping. And I am "on the cop's side".

Cops on a raid should all be in uniform.

These raids are usually done at night for supprise, vest, weapon and visable badge are all required.

I would bet that the percentage along West 28th Street on illegal immigrants and non-US citizens is 60-70% on most days.

More on the shooting

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/76568.htm

DIALLO MOM RIPS COPS IN CHELSEA SLAY

By GEORGETT ROBERTS and LEONARD GREENE

SOMBER SCENE:
Loved ones of Alberta Spruill place flowers on her casket at her grave site in Paramus, N.J., yesterday.
- NYP: G.N. Miller

May 25, 2003 -- The mother of Amadou Diallo, a man whose name has come to symbolize excessive police force, sharply criticized the city yesterday in the wake of a police shooting last week that took the life of another hard-working unarmed immigrant.
Kadiatou Diallo visited the East Harlem neighborhood where the latest shooting victim, Ousmane Zango, lived, and urged residents to keep pressure on the police to implement changes.

"One would think when that happened almost five years ago that it would not happen again," Diallo said. "But unfortunately, it happened. That proves to us that the NYPD has a lot more to do."

Zango, 43, a native of Burkina Faso in West Africa, was shot four times Thursday by a plainclothes cop who was guarding a storage bin filled with counterfeit compact discs at a warehouse in Chelsea.

Zango, who repaired African art, was apparently leaving his third-floor locker when he encountered the cop.

Police said details were still sketchy, but said Zango was shot after a chase and a struggle.

Police later said Zango had no connection to their investigation of the warehouse.

"It's never OK when an innocent person is gunned down by those who are supposed to protect and serve us," said Diallo, whose son, a vendor, was shot dead Feb. 4, 1999, by cops outside his Bronx apartment building while reaching for his wallet.

The officers, believing Diallo had a gun, fired 41 shots at the West African immigrant as he stood in the vestibule, striking him 19 times.

Zango's roommate, Kasimir Pare, said he learned the news after coming home and finding their apartment in disarray. At first, he thought a thief had broken in, but neighbors told him cops had been there searching the apartment.

Police said they were in the apartment to look for a contact name.

"We sleep in the same room, two beds right beside each other," Pare said. "I was very shocked."

The shooting death was the main topic of the Rev. Al Sharpton's weekly address to his National Action Network.

Sharpton addressed the crowd after attending the funeral of Alberta Spruill, a 57-year-old city worker, who suffered a heart attack after a cops threw a flash grenade while executing a mistaken no-knock search warrant at her Harlem apartment.

"Just my schedule shows the state of affairs in New York City today," Sharpton told the crowd. "Before we could even say goodbye to Miss Spruill, we had another killing."

Sources identified the police officer who pulled the trigger as Bryan Conroy, a three-year veteran. He has been placed on modified assignment pending an investigation.

Conroy has yet to give an official account of what happened, but sources said he told cops on the scene that he shot Zango as he was trying to take his gun after a chase and a struggle.

"He kept coming at me," a source quoted Conroy as saying. "I had to shoot him."

Friends of Zango, however, expressed serious doubt about Conroy's version of events.

"He took a lot of care not to be involved with police," Pare said of Zango, whose wife and two daughters are still in Africa. "He was always worried about his green card."

Additional reporting by Sarah Gilbert and Philip Messing

More from the NY Post on why Chelsea is going to hell. Illegal immigrants + counterfeit trade = crime.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/76581.htm

CHELSEA FEARS

By SAM SMITH

TROUBLE SPOT:
Chelsea parking-lot attendant Mohammad Ali, shot twice during a robbery, says crime in the area has gotten worse over the past few years.
- Michael Sofronski

May 25, 2003 -- Mohammad Ali doesn't feel safe anymore.
The 44-year-old Pakistan native was shot twice, one bullet grazing his head and one severing tendons in his hand, during an attempted robbery in Chelsea last March.

"I've worked here six years and no problems," said Ali, who was attacked at a parking lot on 28th Street where he works as an attendant. "Now this area is not safe."

The latest NYPD statistics suggest he's right. Crime, it seems, is booming in Chelsea.

The neighborhood of high-rises, housing projects, galleries and warehouses is experiencing a 36 percent increase in serious crime over this time last year, more than twice the rate of increase in any other city neighborhood.

In the 10th Precinct, which includes Chelsea and part of the Garment District, robbery is up 52 percent, grand larceny 71 percent and - driven by the serial rapist who stalked Chelsea and The Bronx for most of this year - rape is up 250 percent.

Last Thursday, less than a block away from where Ali was attacked, cops raided a storage locker believed to be used by a group of CD counterfeiters last Thursday. Three men were arrested while another man, not connected to the investigation, was fatally shot by an officer.

The soaring crime figures are an aberration that cops and residents are blaming on the changing character of the neighborhood, marked by more night life and wealthier residents.

Anthony Estosito, a 12-year resident, runs a business on 27th Street in the building where the serial rapist committed his final attack. He said that until a year ago, there weren't any crimes in the building. Now thefts are common, and a grotesque rape took place just outside his office.

"I remember when I first moved here," he said. "At 5 o'clock, everybody working here would split and this neighborhood would be deserted. Now there are people here around-the-clock. When the neighborhood was desolate, it was safer."

Cops say the increase in crime is a result of more night life in the area, a change in how grand-larceny numbers are classified and an unusually high number of serial thieves striking the area.

According to police, the bulk of the 183 grand larcenies this year to date have been stolen property at new nightclubs and from cars in the area of nightclubs.

"We're having a lot of car break-ins," said the 10th Precinct's commanding officer, Capt. Gabriell Sbano.

Sbano said the rise in grand larceny is also a result of rejiggered numbers. In the past, she explained, if a credit card was stolen from someone who lives in Chelsea, but used in The Bronx, the crime would be logged in The Bronx. Now it gets tagged to the victim's residence.

"The median income is higher in this area than some other places," Sbano said. "More people live here that would be likely [robbery] victims."

Robberies this year currently stand at 76 and are mainly fueled by "pattern" robbers, repeat thieves who use the same M.O. each time they strike, Sbano said.

Cops say they have increased patrols and are working closer with club security. They've also installed new digital cameras at the Penn South co-op, where a pattern robber is still active.

"We've had a lot of arrests," Sbano said.

But it doesn't seem that way to Ali, whose wounds have left him unable to clench his fist.

"This place has changed," he said. "It's getting worse."

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BS

Also why was this democrat in our Country?

What else can you expect from the cow pie hole of "The Graft Zeppellin"?

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Sharpton Calls For Change After Police Shooting Of Unarmed Man

Here you go Al...now call someone who gives a sh%t.

When a police officer tells you to stop, it's generally a good idea to do so. And you most certainly do not try to take the gun from him or her.