ALBANY — Corey Young was reaching for some ice cream when a police officer grabbed him from behind and threw him to the ground inside a convenience store in Winston-Salem, N.C.
It was November 1996 and Young, then 29, was especially bewildered by the encounter because two Albany detectives that he recognized, Tony Ryan and Kenneth P. Wilcox, were standing by watching as he was taken into custody. He was handcuffed and sitting on a curb outside the store when Wilcox walked over and began reading him a Miranda warning.
“I said, ‘I know my rights, but why I’m being arrested? ,’” Young recalled in a recent interview. “He said, ‘Those two cops you tried to kill are some friends of mine.’ I said I never tried to kill no cops — I never tried to kill nobody.”…