A Connecticut police officer has been convicted of manslaughter. Scott Smith, who is white, fatally shot an unarmed black suspect in the back at point blank range in New Milford, Connecticut. A jury acquitted Smith of murder, but found him guilty of manslaughter for the death of Franklyn Reid in 1998. Smith says he shot Reid because he thought he was reaching for a gun. Smith had been the first Connecticut police officer charged with murder for an action committed while on duty. He could get up to forty years in prison, once sentenced in May.