Apparently Alton Sterling was at the c-store selling his cds. I have not seen nor heard anywhere in the media exactly what kind of cds he was selling. Therefore it must be safe to assume that he was engaged in the illegal activity of selling pirated copies of the hard work and talent of legitimate taxpaying musicians.
If so, he was a parasite similar to a tick, or flea or mite, or perhaps head lice.
Something tells me he wasn’t charging sales tax either...or reporting business income on his pirate cd sales.