A WHITE former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year in Oakland, California, sparking a wave of looting and destruction in the city on Thursday night.

The head of America’s National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People said today a newspaper’s controversial dead chimp cartoon was an invitation to assassinate US President Barack Obama and urged readers to boycott the tabloid.