Simple travesty. The NY Police officers who killed an unarmed black man after his bachelor party were acquitted today. They were found not-guilty by a judge who obviously thought the officers were justified in killing him because they "thought" he had a gun. Similar to the Diallo case, police officers' creative imaginations qualify as sufficient evidence to kill someone, regardless of what the actual facts may be.
Here's the deal. Two undercover officers were at the scene of Sean Bell's bachelor party trying to find evidence to close the place down. Bell and his friends leave the club after a dispute with another patron in Bell's Nissan Altima. One undercover cop tries to get them to stop. But, various witnesses at the scene say he never identified himself as an officer. According to Bell's crew, they think they're about to get robbed or car-jacked by the group from the club, so they try to keep going. But other officers get them to stop by spraying 50 bullets and shooting everyone in the car. Bell dies from one of the 4 shots he receives. The front passenger gets shot 13 times. Another passenger gets shot 3 times, tries to run away, is arrested and handcuffed to his hospital bed for three days. The rest of the bullets hit nearby homes, cars and businesses.
Nothing wrong here I guess. Everything done according to proper police procedure; no criminal wrecklessness really. Obviously this judge and NYPD officials are okay with these officers killing civilians and playing Wild West in populated residential neighborhoods. Former NY Governor Elliot Spitzer decided against assigning a special prosecutor, obviously because he felt there was nothing really special about this case.
Now, if Bell was a teenager running away from police with a pellet gun, he really would have got what he deserved. Blacks need to stop all of the complaining about dying or excessive force by the police. We know they're making all of this up.
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I am very saddened by this incident. We are in a big mess these days with the police around this country. Being a black man, I have to be careful and being a Muslim who is also black I have to be Double Careful. How do you fight for these injustices? Really!!! I think there has to be a US. wide march of both Young and Old Black Men standing up against police brutality and homicide. Isn't it STRANGE that we (Blacks) have the highest percentage of men and women in the prisons along with the highest rate of injustices of police brutality. Can this be contributed to "Underground Racism/Prejudices". Systematically destroy a people from within. Something to make you think and say hmmmmmmm!
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