Sharpton Calls For Change After Police Shooting Of Unarmed Man

ny1.com ^ | 5/25/03

[finnman69]

Reverend Al Sharpton is continuing to lash out at the Police Department about the shooting death of an unarmed man during a raid in Chelsea last week.

Sharpton, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, says he has launched his own probe into the death of Ousmane Zango.

“We are tired of seeing people being buried and we being told it's just a mistake,” Sharpton said Saturday. “The mistake is that we are going to keep cooperating with our own inactivity. We need to wake up. We need to get up, we need to fight back, and we need to stand up for one procedure in New York for everybody.”

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.

The officer, Bryan Conroy, is on desk duty pending the outcome of a department investigation.

[oceanperch]

Hey it happened here in Portland, Oregon too. Police stops car passenger jumps in driver sear to take off Officers mace did not stop her with him attached to car he shot to stop her from dragging him. She had a warrent for her arrest, multiple drug arrests in so many months, and cocoaine in her system. She died.


Two thousand came out to march the streets calling it a race/brutality killing. Poor motherless children, yeah the ideal Mom. Street runner more into her partying.

When are we going to stop and say enough?

When are we going to say hey we are sick and tired of being harrassed by you idiots that want to break laws and verbally or physically threatening us Joe Citizen?

Why do we have to keep are mouths shut and put up with your crap?

Maybe it is time that we "law abiding" citizens get in your face for a change?

I am just sick of this. We sit home. We do not feel safe or are told it is not a good idea to socialize and walk the streets after hours.

[Coleus]

Fat Al ping.

[Coleus]

[Cacique]

Say, do you think that Sharpton would give a crap if the guy was a Chinese immigrant instead of an African one? You think? Somehow I doubdt it.

[dennisw]

He was an illegal alien ........ what a shock!

[dennisw]

Maybe this guy sold Rev Al his dashiki.

[jonalvy44]

"Zango was shot Thursday during a struggle "

That's justification enough for me...

Let's see, the minority population cry about crime and want police to come into their neighborhoods and deal with it...They attempt to deal with it and wind up with lawsuits and negative press. Time for the pc madness to end.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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

Hey I got an idea! Arm the good citizens of Chelsea!