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50 shots = Not guilty.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A judge acquitted three New York Police Department detectives of all charges Friday morning in the shooting death of an unarmed BLACK man in a 50-bullet barrage, hours before he was to be married.
This was not a murder trial. The men were given lesser charges that I believe were more suited to their crime but I don't see any justice in allowing them to go free without consequences.
And I will say this: 50 shots at an unarmed target. That kind of thing never, ever seems to happen to anyone else.
Detectives Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora were found not guilty of charges of manslaughter, assault and reckless endangerment in the death of Sean Bell, 23, and the wounding of two of his friends.
Detective Marc Cooper was acquitted of reckless endangerment.
We sure are lucky we're black.
Comments (3)
I hear ya, bro...
I wonder if Geraldine or Bill want to trade places with Sean Bell or Amidou Diallo (41 bullets as he was standing in the doorway of his apartment reaching for his wallet to identify himself) or with the brother who so "lucky" to be sodomized with toilet plunger in the bathroom of NYPD precinct.
It's a long list...
April 27, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
A long, long, long list.
April 27, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
THE FIX WAS IN FROM DAY ONE. THE DA, THE JUDGE, THE UNION, THE COPS. OH SAY CAN YOU SEE?
April 27, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
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