Shot Penang ‘pirate CD’ victim
p2pnet.net News:- The unarmed man shot and critically wounded by police during an apparent pirate CD bust in Penang, Malaya, wasn’t the first, says a p2pnet Reader’s Write.
The comment points out:
“There was an African merchant named Ousmane Zango (I’ve seen it also spelled Zongo) who was killed by New York city police May 22, 2003 when they raided a warehouse trying to crack down on pirated CDs.”
The post refers to an Associated Press story quoted in the Asheville Global Report, and runs:
“An unarmed immigrant from the African nation of Burkina Faso was shot and killed on May 22 by a plainclothes police officer guarding counterfeit merchandise down the hall. Ousmane Zango, 43, was shot four times after a chase through the hallway of a Chelsea storage facility where he repaired sculptures and drums to send money home to his family in Africa.
“Police officers has just raided two rooms while investigating a compact disk counterfeiting operation. It is unclear why the officer began to chase Zango, who had no connection to the counterfeiting operation. The officer said Zango tried to take his gun and described pushing and shoving between them. The department’s internal affairs bureau is investigating.
“The shooting brought back memories of the death of African immigrant Amadou Diallo, who was shot and killed by four white officers who said they mistook his wallet for a gun. The officers were cleared of murder and other charges in a state criminal trial in 2000, which inflamed racial tensions in New York.
“The shooting also comes a week after police mistakenly raided the apartment of a 57-year-old Harlem woman who went into cardiac arrest and died after officers detonated a flash grenade and handcuffed her. A police informant had wrongly identified Alberta Spruill’s apartment as one used by a drug dealer.”
Zango was a repairman who worked on art objects, says IndieMedia, adding that he lived in Harlem and had no criminal record.
Were the NY cops acting on information supplied by the Big Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) which routinely uses US national and state police as tax-payer funded record label enforcers?
And can the same question be asked of the Malaysian ‘bust,’ with IFPI substituted for RIAA?
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See:-
critically wounded – Man shot in pirate CD arrest, p2pnet, January 14, 2005
Asheville Global Report – Unarmed man shot by NYC police, Associated Press, May, 2003
no criminal record – Remember Ousmane Zango, Shot Dead by NYPD Yesterday, IndieMedia, May 23, 2003
January 17th, 2005 at 12:36 am
well, it’s good that the mpaa/riaa has finally taken a reasonable stance regarding alledged copyright violations. I’m glad to live in an age when it can be a larger fine for selling cd’s, than it is for selling crack, robbing a bank, or stealing the elderlies’ retirement funds. God bless the entertainment industry, dubya bush, and this glorious new fourth riech.
January 17th, 2005 at 9:37 am
When Swiss police shut down Sharereactor, there was no middle-of-night raid, no smashed doors, no guns drawn – as would have been customary if US police had intervened.
January 17th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
You miss spell Malaysia country name.
January 18th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
You face higher penalties for downloading a song than you would if you stole the CD containing the song from a record store.
January 18th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
Because people in America take it! that is why. If it was one of my family member that were killed, I would try the legal system first, and if that did not work, I would make sure officer Htler got the same treatment as my family member.
January 19th, 2005 at 1:27 am
Oh yeah, Malaya was when the ansestors lived. Now it’s Malaysia. Man, I can imagine if I was shot while I was eating. I’ll sue the police for being careless. People could die! Good thing that he was stable.
November 19th, 2005 at 10:47 am
They didn’t need to raid in the middle of the night because they called the owner in for questioning and kept him in jail over lunch. When they went to his house to take his computers and whatever else they chose, they took him in the police car with him. It was about 5:00 in the evening, and it was dark out, since it was winter. I don’t know that things are done so differently in the U.S., but I doubt it would take this long for his case to be prosecuted or dropped in the U.S.
December 29th, 2005 at 1:13 am
You’re dying anyway you fucking white disease. After 400 years time has come that nature will show that the strongest will survive and since you fucking white crap are the minority: Have fun still living, you’re dying anyway…