Black folks we desperately need so UNITY!!! I want to cry for fiance sooo bad.

THAT IS SO BULL SHIT I DON’T THINK THAT’S FAR @ ALL

R.I.P Sean Bell….the real Justice will be UP THERE…We cry for you down here

This is pure bullshit! There is no justification for gunning a man down worse than you do an animal! Prior incarcerations? Are you serious? That judge needs to be hurt! I am from South Jamaica Queens and there are cops posted everywhere in case of a riot! Everyone needs to be rallying the just like they did for the Jena 6!
No Justice, No Peace!

“racism still alive people be concealing it”-Kanye

Oh my gosh,this is SO SAD,I’m welling up with tears,I can’t believe the amount of hatred this world is full of…
I’m definitely keeping his whole family in my prayers
Why? My gosh he was so young,why?

How you mean by what I said “it was his time to go” regardless this is tragic. It was his time to go. Everyone has a birthday and death day.

Somethings God just don’t let us to know, okay. I’m not trying to step on anybody toes or anything. Surely as we as we are born we will die! You all act like I’m saying he should’ve gotten shot up. It’s life! No man knows when he will die; that’s why the saying “an untimely death” makes no sense to say! because none of us knows when that time is. How can you call it “untimely” when you don’t know when the time is? I lost 3 babies at birth so I know the lost. Should I have screamed “why me Lord” or my babies were too young to die! No, God has his reasons for everything. I lost 3 sons, so, yes it’s tragic and it’s hard but we have a lesson in all this.

Maybe the lesson is for blacks in general, when we going to stop hating on each other so much? when we going to respect ourselves and demand it from others? I have never seen any other race of people get shot up this many times and get off. When we going to rally and unite for real? When we going to stay united and not forget about it in a month or so? The fake Jews are still talking about a holocaust that Americans didn’t have anything to do with. Yet, we feel their pain and can’t feel our own. We should honor this young man by uniting stronger. We should let his death be a symbol for all that is wrong with this society towards people of color.

It’s my opinion and I’m entitled to mines;nothing happens by mistake even if it’s tragic.

My prayers for the Bell family and any other family that is “Terrorize” by the Racist System. You want me to send my sons to die for this country; yet you can’t stop randomly killing him on the street. WTF? No way!

THAT IS SO SAD THEY KNOW GOOD AS WELL THEM OFFICERS NEED TO SERVE SOME TIME FOR SHOOTING A YOUNG INNOCENT MAN.

i still cant get over this, im in aww . tears even came in my eyes just lookin at nicole.

I HOPE THE SAME THING DOES NOT HAPPENED TO THAT DUMB ASS COP THAT KILLED JAYSON TIRADO FROM L.E.S. THE COP WAS OFF DUTY AND KILLED HIM. YOU CAN GOOGLE JAY’S NAME. IT WAS ALL OVER THE NEWS IN OCT 07. SEAN BELL’S FIANCE WAS THERE TO SHOW SUPPORT.

COPS NEED TO BE REGULARLY TESTED FOR STEROID USE!!!!!!

I have been bodybuilding in L.A. for over 30 years, never used steroids because of all the may side effects( genital shrinkage, balding, rage, heart and kidney problems, etc.,). But I know for a fact that many cops use them and they should be testes. ‘Roids make people super aggressive. As much money as cities payout for cop abuse, you’d think they’d be interested, but not.
There was a case in Compton that was just settled. The cops shot at a guy over 100 times, and thankfully he didn’t die. The city just had to pay a humongous settlemment. This shit needs to end.

This is outrageous man how can you shot an unarmed person so many times and not be guilty?

I guess this is America for you…I just don’t get it. Something has to change.

If this isn’t excessive, then I don’t know what is! This was clearly a case of aggressive and *probably* racist police officers. Doesn’t matter if the officers were black, we all know that black skin doesn’t immune you from making racist assumptions about people and acting on them. They were irresponsible and should be punished for their actions. This shouldn’t have happened let alone to an UNARMED man!!! 50 TIMES….really….now come on…50 times…AND one of the officers reloaded! I’m heartbroken for this man’s family. No one deserves this.

I remember when I first heard this story. This is such an injustice and I pray for his fiancee and children. This breaks my heart in so many ways

I don’t mean to agitate the massess more then this verdict already has but I found this NYPD forum and check out the quotes from these mother F*ckers. Just copy and paste it.

http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/3166?page=6

“Woke up this morning and I got myself a GUunnn, I say I got myself a gun”

WTF

I KNOW THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!! BEING BLACK IN AMERICA MAKES IT OKAY TO GET KILLED..AS A BLACK EDUCATED MALE I CAN WALK THE STREETS AND IN ANY COPS EYE (NO MATTER WHAT RACE) IN NEW YORK IM A SUSPECT..THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY1..OPEN YOUR EYES..I DONT CARE ABOUT THE TESTIMONIES FOR COPS TO SHOT AT A CAR 50 TIMES AND ITS OKAY IS BEYOND ME..OPEN YOUR EYES..THOSE COPS SHOT AT THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE BLACK AND THAT MAKES THEM SUSPECT ENOUGH

You know I had hope that after the Katrina tragedy black people would REALLY wake up but even that didn’t change anything cause a few weeks later people just forgot and moved on when to this day some people suffer from the consequences of that fiasco. But when you talk about it people don’t seem to care. If all those lives being neglected didn’t wake up black people you think THIS ONE will?? Black people used to take it to the streets, not anymore.

Nobody will care for blacks if blacks don’t care for blacks. People see how we react to this and take notes. They treat us how we treat ourselves. Respect and power have very few to do with being a “majority”. Jews are a minority in America and people are scared of them. When you look at the world, white people are THE MINORITY (about 11% of the worldwide population) and THE WHOLE WORLD is scared of them.

Think about that.

We gotta stop moving on so fast everytime a tragedy like that happens if we want things to change.

The judge had to look at the totatilty of circumstances, the officers were acting in accordance to training and it was what any prudent and reliable officer would have done. Now this is by no means to say that this is right. I believe with all my heart as a law enforcement professional and I can tell you from all the training I have received that the officers were wrong. First…if the subject or suspects did not comply with the orders given by the officers and drove the vehicle in the direction of an officer who feared for his life, that officers training indicates that he immediately seek cover. Why? because the commands given may or may not have been heard, the subject or suspect may or may not have been impaired. You do not fire into a moving vehicle which may have innocent CHILDREN, ELDERS, aboard. BAD Training, LEADS to BAD Decisions when it count. NY State should be held accountable!!!

THEY NEED TO APPEAL THIS CASE. THIS IS COMPLETE INJUSTICE. TO BAD THE LATE GREAT MR.COCKRAN IS NOT AROUND TO DEFEND THIS FAMILY. I HOPE THEY GO BACK AND PROBE WHAT’S LEFT OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR THEIR FARE SHARE.

All I can say is that this is messed up what is our world coming to. A change needs to come about immediatly or the world we live in is going to go down the drain. My thoughts and prayers are with Ms. Bell and their daughter. And just remember this whole experience will only make you stronger so keep your heads up and keep GOD first.

I don”t know what to think of this…I started to think it was a racial matter but then i realized that 2 of the 3 cops were African American….I read on cnn that the judge said he was having a problem with one of the witnesses bc he was very combative on the stand…I mean what do you expect 16 of those 50 shots were lodged in his body and 4 of those bullets still remain in his body bc they were in a dangerous area…I am a middle school teacher in atlanta and it pains me to see our young black boys taken out of the school in cuffs bc they are bringing 9mm guns to school and selling weed out of their lockers…They dont undestand that the world outside the confines of the school is REAL and its not nice AT ALL to the black man…

I CAN NOT BELIEVE, THIS PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A NIGHTMARE!!!!!!! THIS IS UNREAL, we can’t even fathom what Nicole and her family is feeling right now……….

Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, responded angrily to Sharpton’s suggestion that the verdicts were unfair.
“That’s despicable for him to say that because we have the greatest criminal justice system on earth,” he said.

Greatest criminal justice system his ass outta be shot for that comment. He maybe in charge of helping cop families who die in the line of fire but what about Bells family. His fiancee, his kids?

May God continue to keep the family in his grace and may they continue to fight until justice prevails.

Here we go again with half the news.

Yall need to read more than concreteloop. Did we know that one of the persons with the party that included Bell did have a gun? Did we know that Bell was a known drug dealer? We not going to tell that. Why the hell were we not protesting the drug dealing. Bell had been arrested three times, twice for drug dealing and once for a firearms possession. In all cases, he was released on his own recognizance. When are we going to learn. I feel for the girl taht she lost her babydaddy, but that man was lost to the streets as soon as he started selling drugs.

Wow I am appalled by the decision. That is a tragedy that an innocent man died, and his killers are acquitted. That is just wrong.

@ 251 I have been stopped several times because i look like the “suspect” i have no record..this didnt happen to long ago with Dialo.. the police didnt know about this past so why is his past an issue..In New York as i said black = suspect..no matter what..this is a race issue..NYPD BLUE vs blacks!! NYPD blue can be chinese, lation, white, and black and STILL believe a black male is a suspect..I live this in NY.. I KNOW!!
For one thing Im not surprise by this verdict.

oh yea who is They? All the officer were black except for two that makes five black officers. Oh they all must hate black people.

when i read this morning on yahoo! news i wanted to just scream!!!
the laws in this society are unjust, but karma is still abound.

they are NYPD blue always suspect that black (and latino) people are suspect!! I didnt say anything about the race of the NYPD hence saying any race of NYPD think like that..

This makes me wanna scream and cry. This world is so wrong, man. It’s just WRONG.

This goes beyond just pissing me off. I’m so sick and tired of this mess. It just never goes away.

I haven’t posted here in a while but I felt so heartbroken when I heard about this and I knew that I could come to CL and share my thoughts on it instead of going somewhere like MSN or CNN messageboards where there would be people actually justifying these cops actions.

A few years back in my city a fourteen year old black male had taken his moms car. After being found and surrounded by cops in a “nicer neighborhood”, this unarmed boy was eventually shot in the head and killed by an officer who claimed that the boy tried to run him over. That same summer a white teen was brought in peacefully after taking the cops on a high speed chase and shooting at them. I don’t care what anyone else thinks-this society still thinks of us as sub-human.

This story about Bell and all the other stories of injustice that we hear about in the future (and there WILL be more) won’t matter because eventually we will become preoccupied with the lastest music single or who’s starring in the lastest movie. Someone said it earlier-we are quick to forget(does anyone still remember Jena6?) and I’m starting to think that most of us are just to used to this type of treatment to care:( I still care.

say it # 52!!! wow i pray for the family.all i can say is just when you think america has come far its situations like this that remind you just how faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar we still got to go.

http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/3166?page=6

Ya’ll have to click on here and see what the NYPD is saying on their message boards. My people we need to get unified in these communities and let these people understand that any harm done to the people will be reciprocated. We don’t have time for marches and sit-in’s. The war is already being waged we are just to blind to see it. Our brothers are becoming political prisoners and nobody is taking notice. The war on drugs is actally a war on “thugs” or black men who don’t have the credentials to fit into this society. Pretty soon they are going to turn their guns away from Iraq and start pointing them right back at black people…….It’s already begun black people. In the words of Fishburn off of School DAZE “WAKKKKKE UPPPPPPP!!”

THIS PISSES ME THE HELL OFF!!! I CAN’T FATHOM HOW THEY COULD LET THOSE PIGS GO LIKE THAT….WHAT HUMAN COULD LIVE WITH THEMSELVES AFTER KNOWING WAT THEY DID WAS HORRIBLE….I AM INFURIATED ABOUT THIS!!! IT’S PAINFUL TO HEAR ABOUT!!! PAINFUL!!!

There is one thing we can do we can try and convince our young men to stop killing each other. This does sadden me but it does not surprise me. Do you realize that if we do not educate our youth into being lawyers and becoming judges we will continue to have judges like this on the bench.

Obama 2008

@ 217. chillain villain

I need you to read the entire article or maybe even google the story. Those officers were plain clothed, did not annouce who they were, and aproached 3 men in a high crime neighborhood where a argument had just occured with guns drawn. Under the situation I think he was just in trying to drive off. It does not take 50 bullets to stop a car. If they would have shot out the tires they would have stopped the car.

Those police are animals and I hope they repented for their sins because they will pay for this in later maybe in this life or the after life, but they will reap what the sew.

THIS IS SAD…

People need to stop thinking about color, J Dakar put a post up here about the north american union and the zietgiest. We are truly becoming a police state, now the war is between civilians and law (police force). I told you all that police don’t need probable cause for searching you now because we (people) stripped it away by the formation of the privacy acts. This was all done out of fear (9/11) and protection of our borders (what a joke). What a joke? I truly am sad about the situation but I’m not shocked. The law will protect their inner circle (lawyers, police, mayors, city councils, judges, the elite and etc.).

blessings to the the family, it’s a struggle for us all to survive out here ( in a society that objects to our own kind because of skin color).

@ damn

“The war on drugs is actally a war on “thugs” or black men who don’t have the credentials to fit into this society”

Are you for real? A crime is a crime is a crime. Plenty of people live their lives without selling drugs. The war on drug is stoping us from killing ourselves. When these so call Un-credentialed thugs are out in the street selling this mess to our family, recuirting our kids, and tearing our niegborhoods apart the police are there. We cant have it both ways. Being a crimnal has nothing do with Credentials, it’s all about your upbringing and what you will allow in you life. Like I said I feel for the girl and all but what kind of mother would invite that type of man in her life. It’s sad how people knock on the Devil’s door and get mad when he answer. everything happens for a reason. God allows thing to happen and steps in when needed.

Today should be marked in the history as one of several saddest days in the black history where an innocent man & unarmed can be shot 50 times and justice was not served. That just goes to show the fight for equality in the justice system has been push back into slavery.

YUNG WTF IZ DIS BULLSHYT!!!???? NO FUKKIN TIME?????????????
DATS FUKKED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@13 i get what you saying but that’s not the point. HE WAS SHOT 50 TIMES! SHOT 50 TIMES!! 50 TIMES!!!! 50 TIMES!!! That evidence alone should have sealed those cops fate. LET IT BEEN THE OTHER WAY AROUND WITH THAT SAME WITNESS, THE JUDGE WOULD’VE PUT THE NEDDLE IN HIS ARM HIMSELF!!! just to show that they take care of their own better than they do for the public that pays for their salaries. Racism is alive and well and never left, just went into hiding.

After further research I have learn that they were not getting married that day. In New York a marrige can not be proformed until 24 hours after marrige cert is issued. A marriage cert was not issued. lets get these facts right.

I’m shook to the core about the verdict…. It doesn’t make any sense!

The judge should address the public and explain in layman’s terms how he came to his decision. In all fairness, the average person has no real working knowledge of what criminal charges mean, even those who have charges leveid against them! Otherwise the public will come to their own conclusions and civil unrest is VERY likely!!

But even the most reasonable person could see that reckless behavior occured that night… empty your clip, re-load and resume shooting?? ALTHOUGH NO SHOTS at any point were fired back at you???

Police want to get home to their families too, but police should be better equipped/trained to handle semi-automatic weapons in a much more responsible way than the average person…. unbelievable…

they will deal with their own hell, having to relive that moment over and onver again and KNOW that they were wrong, dead wrong….

much prayers continue out to the Bell family, that they find serenity amongst this madness…..

I agree with Ja here….but for different reasons.

The verdict was a disgrace and the judge, the city and this country should be ashamed. However, it apparently takes this to get people to wake up and pay attention.

Nothing has changed in this country except for the surface. Underneath the shiny surface, it is still as depraved, morally corrupt and full of racism, classicm, and facism as it always has been.

@ the idiots above who claimed that Sean Bell had drug convictions–unless he was dealing drugs at that moment and when the officers attempted to arrest him he pulled a weapon and THEN they shot him-his past convictions are irrelevant.

I don’t know if I am more angry at the injustice or more angry at the utter ignorance and stupidity of people today who can’t think analytically. This sh9t is not going to change until people begin thinking again.

And CLEARLY Los Angeles has once and for all proven who is the most “Gangsta” in the East Coast West Coast beef–because LA was already up in flames by this time after the Rodney King verdict…NY is waiting on another March from Sharpton or the next 50 Cent concert.

ALL I HAVE 2 SAY IS R.I.P. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE FAMILY I DONT KNOW THEM DIDNT KNOW HIM BUT ITS TOUCHES ME DEEPLY THE WHOLE SITUATION. ITS SAD TO SAY THIS BUT I KNEW THEY WERE GONNA GET OFF FREE.

IM JUST STILL SHOCKED BY THE WHOLE SITUATION

FUCK THE SYSTEM N DA NYPD(NOT ALL)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we have such an unbalanced system man. it’s crazy. 50 shots just to take out one guy. this ish has been going on for years and nothing has changed. the innocence of people are being contaminated by unfaithful justice. we gotta stand up.

@131 Tabby

Your post is annoying as hell. When any person’s life is worthless, regardless of whether they are employed, unemployed, religious, not religious, black, white, whatever–then it means the lives of ALL people are worthless.

If you believe for one moment that the police, in the same situation, will know the difference between your Bourgiouse behind–and any thug on the street, you will be in for a rude awakening.

Ja (#270), can I ask you a few questions? I feel where you’re coming from about his drug dealing past but what does that have to do with his car being shot at 50 times? What does not having a marriage license have to do with this case?

A man was killed, while 2 others were injured. Parents lost a child and children lost a father. A life was taken away because of reckless behavior and you’re bringing up the fact that he and his fiance didn’t have a marriage license?

He was not killed during a drug deal. It’s really irrelevant in regards to the cops being acquitted on ALL charges when they shot at these men FIFTY TIMES.

@82 read Ecc.9:11, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. God isn’t involved in this tragdey.maybe you are the misinformed one. tell me if he is why did he do it?

See this B.S.? This racism/stereotypes/stigma in America (the World at large for that matter) has never ended. Just covered up, disguised as something else. It’s such a damn shame.

No matter what he was guilty of this young man did not deserve this. And how do they acquit these cops like this? The young man was unarmed. And even if they suspected…50 f-ing shots? Sh*t man. This is unsettling.

So so sad. I wish his family all the best.

i hate police…

I REALLY THINK THAT THIS IS A TRUE LIVING EXAMPLE OF HOW THE NEW YORK POLICE VIEW AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES , AND I BELIEVE THE ENTIRE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NEED TO BE REPLACED AND THEN MAYBE THERE WILL BE JUSTICE THERE. IT IS ONE PLACE I WOLUD NEVER WANT TO LIVE. SOME STATES ARE BAD BUT NO WHERE CAN YOU JUST KILL BECAUSE YOU THINK SOMEONE HAS A GUN AND WALK AWAY FREE BUT THERE. MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THEY ARE HURTING.

@Just Me

You must be one those people who think that its ok sell drugs as long as you give back too the community. I think you might be one of those people who believe that people who talk to the police are snitches. He tried to hit someone with his car. Thats reckless. Being in a strip club at dark :30 with 2 kids at home is reckless.
Many of the black website have stated that he was about to get married to make the story seem more tragic than it is. This seems like a ploy to expain why he was at the strip club. I dont know way we ( black people) have to add things or try to change the view of fact. The truth is sad all by itself. It dont need help. I hope that answer you question.

Here are some excerpts from the NYPD Blog on what they are saying… You should read this!
Appalling!!!! And I wonder why I never get sad when i hear they have been killed in the line of duty
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Mastershield said…
Not Guilty….as it should be. Except if you’re the black majority, they think differently. Their idea of justice is guilty only, in any shooting against a black person. They wouldn’t know what justice is if it slapped them in the face. To the Detectives involved, and all MOS. This is the reason you should seriously think about bailing out at 20 years working for the NYPD. Do your job and go home.
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NYPDRedsoxFan said:
JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!

Burn in Hell Sean Bell!
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Lovedajob said:
Lets give the judge some credit. He made the right decision. Justice was served. Not what big Al and his henchmen wanted to hear. He did not cave into political pressure, he delivered his decision on the facts and the truths. Hope the 3 will get on with their lives and back to work reach 20, grab their pension and run. There should be no department trial for a job well done.
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BillyDustyFrank said…
Congratulations to my brothers in blue….

And while we are giving out FU’S

A BIG FU to the COWARD LT from vice….FVCK YOU FVCK YOU FVCK YOU

AND FVCK YOU TO THE MEDIA, ESPECIALLY FOX5 NEWS as it is now almost 11 am and they are still live with this non story milking it for all they can….trying to make something more to this than there is…

KUDOS to ABC Channel 7 who were the first to go back to their regularly scheduled programming…

The judge ruled. It was obvious. NO crime was committed, the Detectives acted within the Law…..enough with the Bell family already. These media assholes are making Sean Bell a Saint. He was a PERP. The cops know it, the public knows it, his perp friends and family know it, the criminal justice system knows it….enough already.

Kudos to the defense team for exposing the prosecution witnesses credibility (or lack of)
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O-AFan said:
As they taught in the Academy, if you know you’re on the right side of the law, choose a bench trial. A jury would’ve had these guys on their way to jail. Ooh Rah boys.
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JGirl64 said…

congrats, as i write this with tears of joy

let the savagery begin

f**k ‘em where they breathe
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CivvieRanter said…
‘m glad Judge Cooperman was able to see through the morass of bulls*it.

These thugs used DPF against these police officers in the form of a vehicle and got what they deserved. Driver=DOA, Passengers=Injured enough to know if they’re ever in that situation, it’s not a good idea to try that! image

Well, I guess the judge was “just doing his/her part”, just like the guy on TV yesterday said towards his reasoning for donating to planned parenthood in Ohio because there were too many black there. Some ignorant people of “Other” races keep knocking the race card saying how could it be racial if some of the cops doing the shooting were black. Black people tend to stereotype against our own (house negros) but the judge just iced the cake when she gave dem boys a free pass for cleansing the world of Sean Bells. I know no amount of money can bring the cohesion back to Nicoles family, but Lord please give this woman some Justice and Closure to this soon. Letting the dirty cops walk poured salt on her wound. God bless the Paultre-bell family. My black as* would have went pure Psycho in the court room.

I don’t care if Sean Bell was a woman beating, drug trafficking,gun peddler! They didn’t know that when they pulled up on him! He wasn’t in the middle of a drug transaction or anything. Even if he had a record- people don’t change- he could of been one of the ones that got fed up with the street life trying to go straight now. Either way yes Nicole is hurting but the real victims are her kids.
This is so terrible! From since this happened *Allll those Rappers who are use to this kind of issue should of been helping Nicole with the cake to get a REAL lawyer to fight this case! The witnesses stories were “embellished” or whatever?? Please the WITNESSES Witnessed a black man get riddle with bullets! He wasn’t standing in the middle of the street with a hostage or with a bomb on his chest! He was in a FUCKIN vehicle! His associates were there to see their friend lose his life! Those witnesses and associates have replayed this shit over and over in their heads! Have had nightmares! His associates have had to face his fiance, answer her questions and even more painful see kids that lost their father! These associates almost lost THEIR own lives! AND HERE’s WHAT WE AS society don’t know and can’t relate to: these uncredible witnesses and associates probably testified knowing in their hearts and minds these Devils would get off.
Now my question my fellow CLers- Would YOU be able to give a well spoken-detailed account of the events when you been reliving it and looking at these cocky cops (infruriated and unable to get at ‘em bklyn style) knowing in your heart of all hearts that the system would actually consider letting them off with a slap of the wrist! And then BAM! Worse- they get off FREE!
I don’t know how that judge didn’t choke on his own saliva when he tried to justify his reasoning!
-I am in Boston,MA and I am just bout ready to come out there and set shit of for ya’ll New Yorkers on some Huey P Newton- Black Panther shit! I am serious!
Ya’ll are fuckin slackin! It aint right-we need to stand up for our shit!
So now what- I catch a bullet if I raise my middle finger to a cop because he thought I had a .22- you serious!
Fuck all the other post after this- we need to start bloggin about what we gonna do!

ok even if the testimony by the prosecutor’s witnesses was questionable and “the story changed day after day” the point IS that doesn’t warrant 50 bullets being shot at a man?!?!?! Is that really necessary?!?! Would that have EVER happened to someone white?….HIGHLY unlikely. Even if they thought the man was armed, isn’t it protocol to just shoot the person in the arm or leg to get them down…that’s like 2/3 shots. Why FIFTY?!?!

May God comfort their family and give them strength.

*SMH*

@JA

You must be one those people who think that its ok sell drugs as long as you give back too the community.

Me:What does that have to do with this case?

I think you might be one of those people who believe that people who talk to the police are snitches.

Me:Again what does that have to do with this case?

He tried to hit someone with his car.Thats reckless.

Me:Even if he did,in new york it is against the law for a police officer to fire on a moving vehicle,why don’t you go and get your facts right.

Being in a strip club at dark :30 with 2 kids at home is reckless.

Me:Oh please man like your ass ain’t out at the strip club.

Many of the black website have stated that he was about to get married to make the story seem more tragic than it is. This seems like a ploy to expain why he was at the strip club.

Me:So everybody just got together and made up this big lie about him getting married?

And for what it’s not like that would bring him back even if he was just a their for fun does he deserve 50 bullets for it?

I dont know way we ( black people) have to add things or try to change the view of fact. The truth is sad all by itself. It dont need help. I hope that answer you question.

Me:You need to reread those facts the cops fired onto a moving vehicle with is against police procedure.

race might have motivated the initial stop, but it definitely was the brutality that is what is so horrendous about this case.

those condemning bell for an alleged “thug life” because he was where he was at (a gotdamn BACHELOR party for a 23 y/o YOUNG MAN) need to get off your pompous pedestals and realize the bigger implications of this: it’s becoming increasingly easier for cops to take deadly action first and ask questions later.

and i’ve been following this story from the beginning. he rammed the police car because he got in an altercation inside the venue with some other people who threatened him. was the squad car marked? not according to MSN.com. should the officer have waited until they exited the car before taking such an irreversible action?

i respect what “good” cops do and the pressure they face (some are scared shitless on the beat), but these kinds of “accidents” are becoming all to familiar; and until someone is made an example or held responsible on a national front, i anticipate other events across the nation, regardless or race.

RIP to Sean Bell and Due Process…Hello to the Police State.

No, Ja, I don’t think that at all. And if you read my post you’d see that I did mention I agreed with you on some of your points.

I was only wondering why you were persecuting Sean Bell and bringing up something that is irrelevant to this case. But thank you for answering my questions and assuming you know how and what I think, and thank you for letting me know that going out and enjoying yourself is reckless behavior. I’ll be sure to abstain from such activities, as I don’t want the same to happen to me in the future.

And this situation is tragic, whether Sean was getting married or not, and the murderers have been acquitted. Also, it’s not just black sites that are claiming he was to be married the next day. All news reports I’ve seen and read have said the same thing.

Thanks again.

Im so sick of people saying that this isnt a race thing because 2 of the officers were black! Black people discriminate and stereotype each other everyday!!

Bottomline, this was a horrible thing to happen! I am at a lost of words for this verdict, racism is still alive and present. Blacks need to take a stand together, we have to unite….

*people DO change.
Correcting my typo- man I am so vex!

this is just ridiculous, but it’s not that surprising
my love goes out to the Bell Family.

@Judah for you to be quoting scriptures left and right, it seems that you don’t really get the sense of the scriptures. You talk so much hate against white people, where the bible say that God is Love.(1John 4:7,8) I don’t understand how you can say you are a lover of God and yet speak so nasty of an entire race. The sad thing is you are going say to that I’m some porch coon, wanting for the white man to tell me what to do. I just started to visit this site and never comment until this post. The only reason I’m addressing you because I thought it should be said. Not all white people are evil. People in general do evil things including blacks.

Thoes should cops be in jail right now.

Seeing Nicole holding her wedding dress is just sad.

This is a sad day for Black America across the country.

THIS IS A COMPLETE NIGHTMARE!!! HOW CAN THE JUDGE BE SO STUPID ITS OBVIOUS TO SEE THAT THE POLICE ARE WRONG THEY SHOULD BE ACOUNTABLE FOR THERE ACTIONS. WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND FIGHT THIS INJUSTICE. I DONT KNOW THE FAMILY BUT WHAT IF THIS SHIT HAPENED TO SOMEONE I LOVE?

I wouldn’t even do a civil suit- just as a statement but then again the man had kids. No amount of money can replace their dad.
What a thoroughbread like myself would do.
After the Civil Suit- I (as Nicole) would ask each cop for THEIR favorite charity and donate the proceeds to each charity of their choice. And sit and wait for Karma! I know it sounds weird- but I have to pray for these cops- THESE MOFOs are going to catch hell! And I hope that they don’t have kids because there are things we do and we “the adults” don’t suffer the consequences- our children do. The worse Karma when your kids have to pay for something you have done.
It’s messed up to a point -I honestly believe at least one cop feels his ass should be under the jail along with the other criminals. That was a criminal act committed by criminals hiding behind badges.

If this had happened in L.A., there’d be a riot going on right now.

My prayers go out to the family. I saw a picture of his WIFE crying after the hearing and it broke my heart. I pray for stregnth to reach her.

ANd let me repeat some words by made by Ice Cube on the NWA hit ‘F*ck The Police’

‘And on the other hand, the police can’t get none
But don’t let it be a black and a white one
‘Cuzz they’ll slam you down to the street top
Black police showing out for the white cop’

str8 up

*HEAVY SIGH* My prayers go out to the Bell family.

Who the f*ck is this Judah? With his racist bullsh*t? It’s the GOVERNMENT you should be havin a problem with. Not every white man or woman in every corner on this planet. Gatdamn, you the black ignorant man of the month.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO K SO?
YES WERE ANGRY, YES THIS WAS SO DAMN WRONG THAT NO 1 CAN BELIVE IT. BUT SAYING ITS A RACE THING OR A POLITCAL THAING OR A WHATEVR THANG..
ANYWAYS MY PEOPLE MY BLACK, WHITE*, SPANISH, CUBAN, ALLLLL MY PEOPLE WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW. COMPLAIN GIVING THEM* MORE TO LOOK AT & SAY THATS JUST HOW THEY ARE, RIOT WHEN THATLL WORSEN THINGS, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO.
MY PEOPLE HOW ABOUT “CHANGE”, KNOW WHAT THAT IS, STOP DESENSITIZING HUMANE LIFE. PRAY, WOMEN STOP CARRYING YOURSELVES LIKE SLUTS, MEN STOP SELLING DRUGS, CLAIMING BLOCKS, COLORS AND EVERYTHING ELSE U DONT CLAIM TAXES FOR.

DOES ANY1 REMEMBER THE MOVIE SCHOOL DAYZ?! WELL REMEMBER THE END OF THE MOVIE…

YES O YES
SO MY PEOPLE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKEEEEEEE UUUUUUP!