What the F*ck? How can you shoot at someone 30 times and not be guilty after there was no evidence of a gun on the scene. I’ve got to go get myself a gun because if they do me the same at least I’ll get me some shots off before I go. DAmn Damn Damn!!!!

some things never change i guess!!! that was too sad.

wow, this is terrible. This is the world we live in. They don’t give a damn about us cause we not giving a damn about ourselves. The black male race will be extinct. Statistics don’t lie, google it.

Be strong my brothers and sisters, be strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am STILLIN SHOCK!!! Wesley Snipes gets 3 years and these men get___??? Unbelievable!! 50 SHOTS!! I’m speehcless!

It is so sad that justice wasn’t served in this matter. My prayers are with the family!

THIS IS JUST NOT RIGHT!!!…NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT,…NOT EVEN AT ALL. GOD BLESS THE FAMILY.

i emailed u guys about this this jus shows how they still view us they couldnt care less about us as a people i know they jus view us as animals there supposed to be there to protect and serve but wat they do instead kill us off harm us there neva b justice will it all our problems will continue to b swept under the rug people WAKE UP

This is crazy to me I am truly upset. How can the police shot an unarmed man 50 times and get away with it unbelievable.

BULL SHIT
BULL SHIT!

NOt guilty?
Really now?

50shots?
Not Guilty?
HOW CAN 50 SHOTS BE FIRED FROM A POLICEMANS GUN AND THEY GET A NOW GUILTY VERDICT?
50 FREAKIN’ SHOTS!

GOODNESS GRACIOUS
LAWDY, WAHTA ER WE GONNNA DO

ITS HARD TO BE BLACK
I HOPE NICOLE KEEPS HER HEAD UP, ITS SAD TO SEE HER HOLDING THE WEDDIN DRESS LIKE THAT, REALLY SAD

ITS A YOUNG GUY.
A YOUNG BLACK GUY

GOODNESS GRACIOUS

First My Damned Supervisor pissed me off now this SHIT! I’m actually getting a stress headache!

^not guilty

Maybe if the testimony of Bell’s witnesses wasn’t so shitty, things would have been different. When your story changes day after day after day…that’s pretty suspect.

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, but it is not the end to this case. Nicole Bell has the right to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

Until, then my prayers go out to the victims family and all others who were affected by this tragedy.

That’s terrible.
Just another reminder of the sad times that we live in.

Racism is still alive and thriving.

My heart goes out to his loved ones.

That’s some f*cked up sh*t!!!

im about to cry…seriously…this hurts yo

Damn! Wesley gets 3 yrs for a non-violent crime, NYPD gets nothing for killing an unarmed man and injury others.

Damn! Wesley gets 3 yrs for a non-violent crime, NYPD gets nothing for killing an unarmed man and injury others.

So here is our reality. Wesley Snipes (like him or not) gets 3 years for not filing a tax return, a misdemeanor, and these 3 clowns (the brothaz included) are acquitted for shooting an unarmed civilian. NYPD has a history of abuse and excessive force. We should, however, respect the police. The world should STOP when one of them goes down in the line of duty.

This man was getting married (Cosby & Co say we don’t really do that), had a relationship with his children (both by the same woman) and was moving to the next stage of life. He is murdered in a hail of 50 bullets. Too bad Sean Bell wasn’t at f*ckin pit bull, perhaps there would be more outrage.

As much as I like Barack Obama, even he can’t CHANGE this.

I have no words for that bullshit verdict…it’s just unbelievable that they can get away with killing an unarmed man. It’s just a sad day in history. They are just sending out a message to cops that they can do whatever they want. Did they even get fired? Still wouldn’t justify the situation but they never need to hold guns again…

Michael Vick gets two years for killing a mother f*cking DOG!!! And these punk ass police get to go back to work. I really can’t believe this bull $hit!!!!

its cops period, they think they can get away with murdering. It is too easy for cops to kill. What happened to morals. Thou shall not kill. no matter if you’re a cop or not. this is ridiculous. i don’t believe you should shoot more then at the most ten shots….DANG!! whats up with that. And they wonder why us young people don’t respect the police. but really its in the big cities like New York and L.A. they just lost hope THEY SO SCARED THEY SHOOTING EVERY BODY. As a 16yo girl this scares me being in a world were you can get killed by the police, for LOOKING suspicious. This made me so mad and i don’t even watch the news and stuff like that. i feel so bad for his girlfriend…the police turned a wedding into a funeral… and don’t even care. i’m done with those kind of cops.

wasn’t one of the cops black? i don’t think this is a race thing. black people always trying to make everything about race. this was a “connection thing”. The judge made the ruling, the cops are apart of his circle of power. Plain and simple.

We all know they should be doing some time. Damn shame.

Nice look on the photos CL.

I can’t wait to see how the civil trial goes…

It’s a shame that in this day in age we still have the same verdicts given like it’s the 1960’s but there are no Jim Crow Laws now. Racism is alive ladies and gentlemen. This is sickening. 50 shots?

Yo NYC!!! The one thing that didn’t change is 51 SHOTS!!!! That’s going to be the amount of shots let off yesterday, today and tomorrow.

I Live in Queens and all hell will break loose…..may god be with us all

I agree w/ #3. It doesn’t make it right but instead of yelling “injustice” or getting upset… we have to do better. I don’t wanna be another statistic and I’m sure no one else does so act like it. I definitely do not think the judge made the right decision but I wasn’t there so I can’t fully judge the case. I feel the “reasons” are bullshit and until someone sits down (aka that judge) and explains why those “reasons” cause an acquittal, I will feel this an another permanent injustice to SOCIETY.

Soo I’m thinking for them to get acquitted of all 3 charges they must’ve had a DAMN good excuse for shooting at an unarmed man 50 times. I mean better than “we thought he had a gun”.. because it doesn’t take 50 shots to take somebody down.. that’s extremely excessive and unneccessary. SoOo since there MUST be some hell of an explanation I’m gonna need to hear one. Hell I need to hear one of why they were acquitted from the judge. This is complete bullshit and this is the world we live in.. wait I mean COUNTRY we live in. And we’re supposed to have faith in America and think it’s the best place ever.. wow.

OMG…wot is the world comin 2….this doesnt even make sense….4 wot reason shud the police mn be found innocent….this is simply injustice. My heart goes out to the family and friends of this young man…..omg..im still in shock

Vick is now serving time for killing a damn dog!!!!! And you mean to tell me that these cops kill a human and are free- I’m so upset I really don’t know what to say- Why blacks treated as we have no rights to live- Why is so ok for our people to be murder and no one is punished?

That is so sad. Racism is still alive and is getting worse by the minute.
Those policeman should be in prison. How are you going to shot somebody 30 times and they aren’t even shooting at you. But NYPD they will get theres its about to be on in popping in the hood this weekend they think they are going to get away with something like that hell nah and then one of the policeman was smiling ah HELL TO NAH!

I HAVE NO WORDS…MY HEART IS HEAVY FOR HIS WIFE AND KIDS.

NYC LEGAL SYSTEM ALWAYS BEEN JACKED UP!!!!

THIS IS JUST SOME BULLSHIT..STRAIGHT BULLSHIT!!!

This is so sad.

I STILL CANT GET OFF IT….REALLY UPSET..

IT’S TRUE, HOWEVER, THAT WE’VE HAVE GOT TO DO BETTER
NOT MUCH WE CAN DO IF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TO SERVE AND PROTECTA RE SO DAMN TRIGGER HAPPY
THINK ABOUT IT, 5 OVERSEER/OFFICERS SHOOTIN AT AN UNARMED BLACK MAN
DONT SEEM RIGHT
IT’S SAD
SO SA I CANT GET OFF IT

This is so sad. Not surprising, but very sad. All we can do is pray. God has a plan for us all. And all these evil basta*rds will reap what they have sown one day. The ultimate judge is GOD.

This judge claims the prosecutions case was weak… of course it was. The witnesses were contradicting themselves and making stuff up. But who can remember all the little details when there are bullets flying past your head?? Come on! The prosecution didnt want to win anyway. Its just another one of those systymatic injustices built in to keep us down and out or dead. And judges these days are not worth the cheap ass chinese made robe they wear. They could have at least been found guilty on the assault and reckless endangerment charges!! After living in NYC for 3 years, I could see right away that anybody can be an NYC cop. The cops I saw in the hood would spend the day getting at girls, cockilly bossing people around, riding around aimlessly and eating dunkin donuts. I know being a cop is hard - your life is in danger every day. And from what I understand, a random man fleeing to his car does not make him a suspect. And if these cops had time to shoot 50 rounds AND RELOAD - they had time to GET THEIR A$$ES OUT OF THE WAY of Mr. Bell’s car!!!!! What cowards! They could have shot at the tires - but no - they aimed right at him! This country is a trip! In the next few weeks, well be writing again - about how they are going extra hard on Barack. Just wait - they have only just begun to politically lynch him!

We been covering Sean Bell’s case over at Highbrid Nation from the start and when I read today that the police officers were acquitted I was in serious disbelief. An unarmed man was shot 50 times and the people who did it are not responsible at all!? That’s crazy.

Think about Michael Vick and his boys. They killed dogs and they are all serving time..U was just reading that one of the charges against the cops was reckless endangerment. The one cop shot 31 times and reloaded, that sounds like reckless to me…It’s a sad day. They ask us to have faith in the justice system and things like this happen. The sad part about it is that it’s not the firt time and it won’t be the last…My prayers go out to the family.

SMHDH

Thats messed up and i bet if it was the other way around ole boy would be sitting on death row right now.

I’m still in disbelief about this. I cannot believe that a man got shot up that many times and no one is being held accountable.

That’s BS if no weapon was found, so what if they were incarcerated before if they didn’t have a gun then they shouldn’t have fired 50 rounds like that. It sounds to me that people need to stand up and protest these officers who are in charge of ” so called protecting” them.

THATS SOME BULLSHIT!!!!
BUT I’M NOT REALLY SUPRISED. ITS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.

WTF! I’M SO UPSET REGARDING THIS ISSUE. I CANNOT BELIEVE THE JUDGE ISSUED THIS ACQUITTAL ON ALL THREE OF THE OFFICERS. IN MY OPINION I BELIEVE THE OFFICERS PAID THE JUDGE OFF. I ALSO TRUELLY BELIEVED THAT THE OFFICERS WOULD NOT BE CHARGED FROM THE POINT OF WHICH THEY ANNOUNCED MANSLAUGHTER AND MISDEMEANOR CHARGES IF ANY WOULD BE PURSUED. THIS WORLD IS RIDDLED WITH RACISM. ALL WAYS HAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE. AS FOR THE COMMENT BY #3 (NYC) NO MATTER WHAT THE WITNESSES SAID AND HOW INCONSISTENT THE STORIES WERE FACT STILL REMAINS A MAN WAS KILLED.

This is an outrage. No justice at all. I’m still trying to figure out how can u shoot at someone that many times and not realize that noone is returning fire. It is going to be riots all around.

I was listening to Steve Harvey this morning and just like he was saying you dont hear stories of police shooting OTHER innocent people like you hear about Blacks. I don’t want to turn it into a racial thing cause I’m not racist but still you gotta ask.

*SMDH*

This was a very unusual case in that
1. There was no jury. The Judge Made the decision entirely
2. The DA’s office really didn’t want to prosecute the cops. They only did so because there were pressured by the African American Community & Mayor Bloomberg

I believe in my heart that The Prosecution Lost this case on purpose

Here’s an article to support my belief:
In the Sean Bell case, it was the gang that couldn’t prosecute straight
http://www.nydailynews.co...e_it_was_the_gang_th.html

@ #13

Even if the story did change day after day it doesn’t take 50 shots to realize a man doesn’t have a weapon. Please don’t defend racism because you are making an ass out of yourself!!! I work in a police agency and see cops get slapped on the wrist all the time. You better believe those cops will just keep climbing up the latter while a young family is out here without a father. This story just makes me sick to my stomach because it a senseless act of violence. America wonders why black men are so angry…..this is the shit they have to go through.

I am outraged to read this mess…this literally gives me chills up my spine. I hope the civil case has a better outcome than this crap!!! My prayers go out to Sean Bell’s family…this whole ordeal is BEYOND tragic for his family and loved ones.

I don’t think their needs to be a riot like in L.A., but something needs to happen to force change.

It’s unfortunate, but predictable. I wouldn’t call it sad because, in my opinion, the sad thing is that black people continually expect justice in a society where they’ve never gotten it. The judge cites the inconsistencies of Bell’s friends but on a night when those cats were pissy drunk, how the hell can you expect their stories to match up detail for detail? We know that none of them were armed and that the devil emptied his clip, reloaded, and emptied another one but that was not enough I guess. It’s obvious that if a man empties two clips the intent is to leave no one alive. Just say that the case was drawn out because it was a media trial and leave it at that. An idiot could see that the pigs were going to get found not guilty as soon as dirt was exposed about Bell and his friends. When there is a trial involving the black man, he must be spotless and blameless from birth because the court system will try to use a candy bar that he stole in the 4th grade as justification for his murder or imprisonment. Only the caucasian is allowed a second chance or redemption. In addition to that, it was a non-jury trial left in the hands of one “judge”(Deut 32:31).

His wife will be given a certain monetary compensation under the table, if she hasn’t already, from both Bloomberg and Sharpton’s coon National Action Network to shut up in addition to the money that she will get in the upcoming civil trial because money is supposed to compensate perpetual indignities to our people. Sharpton was sent out from the start to smother Bell’s wife and family from saying anything inflammatory and he will be used until everything dies down to keep a certain amount of attention on the case while concurrently telling the masses of black people how they should respond or think. This system that has been developed really is brilliant when you analyze it because the white man has ensured that black people will oppress themselves due to lack of self-knowledge and certain hand chosen black leaders can be used, if necessary, to drown out the small number of blacks that see through the facade. The cops at the verdict reading were unnecessary because there was no chance of any riots by these negroes. This is not the late 1980’s or early 1990’s anymore. Black people want to accept homosexuality, lesbianism, and love the white man before any real concern with themselves. In a sense, our people get what they deserve.

THIS WHOLE SHIT GOT ME THINKING ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON SONG … PLEASE A MOMEMT OF SILENCE …..

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody’s gone mad

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kick me
Don’t you black or white me

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, now
I’m tired of bein’ the victim of hate
You’re rapin’ me of my pride
Oh, for God’s sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy…
Set me free

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
black man, black male
Throw your brother in jail

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I’m tired of bein’ the victim of shame
They’re throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can’t believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don’t wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin’
He wouldn’t let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

Some things in life they just don’t wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin’
He wouldn’t let this be

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, segregation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, strike me
Don’t you wrong or right me

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don’t really care about us

My Heart is Broken…..I mean 30 times?….let us Pray

Lord give us strength!

Our race is indeed headed for extinction. Between black on black crime, HIV/AIDS, police brutality, an unjust justice system, and the destruction of the nuclear BLACK family ( no offense to anyone in an interracial relationship) it has become difficult for us from a pure numbers standpoint.

Please let us love each other. Educate each other. Hold each other up. Raise our children.

You may feel helpless in helping with the Sean Bell situation, but you can do something small today to uplift your people.

Every black woman: go out today and tell a black man, “I love you, brother.” Share your home cooked meal with your neighbor.
Every black man: hold the door open or give up your seat for a black woman. Help your neighbor bring in her groceries or wash her car.

Wesely Snipes gets 3 yrs for cheating Uncle Sam but these dudes get a pass for firing their guns 50 times and killing someone!!! That’s some BS!!!

shot 50 times and they were acquitted of ALL charges, and ya’ll think we ready for a black president THIS COUNTRY’S JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A JOKE…fukk lady liberty that bitch blind…

this is just so unfair! i can only imagine how the family and friends feel. you know what God don’t like ugly and if those cops shot him for any unjust reason, they WILL have their day with the good Lord. I’m upset, sad and super hurt! i really feel like crying.

Unfortunately I am not surprised by this verdict. Disgusted, upset and angry but not surprised. I wish God’s blessings and guidance to his family.

@24For anyone who thinks this is not a race thing, they are in another world from ours. True, one of the cops was black, but you better believe that black cop got off because of the other white officers involved. If he were by himself, BELIEVE ME, he would have lost his job or served some time- definitely penalized- not exonerated like this.

ALL CROOKED COPS will get a a taste of their own medicine one way or another. They may get off from the courthouse, but they can not run from God. How many of us know too well, that what goes around, COMES AROUND. These cops will SUFFER one way or another, they no longer have peace in their life….

I wish I could say I was surprised at the verdict, but I’m not. Out black men are nothing but targets who can be shot 50 times for nothing other than being a black man. It’s time to get our families and communities in order so that we can unite and fight back-BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!

Asea
Agreed! I can’t believe people are shocked by this verdict! Anyway, they get away with it by man, but never with God, okay people….Never!

I hope they can sleep at night! Fifty bullets just ain’t right. I mean like someone said; ” They could’ve shoot at tires or something” you would’ve thought after Amadou Diallo, they would’ve learn this.

I really feel badly for the family, but, God has a plan and every man has a birthday and death day. It was his time to go even if we don’t want to hear this. May the family keep their faith in the one and only.

Wow! Even though I wasn’t surprise; it still hurts to see the cops walk away.
Oh! yeah, even though I don’t believe in being cruel to animals, in America those animals have reach the level of “lil people” and even they have more respect then a “black man” so don’t be surprise by that.

Wesley Snipes, knew he had to pay taxes like the rest us poorer people, so, please respect the Bell family. This doesn’t compare to what he did. Mr Bell, didn’t know what was coming to him and Snipes did.

where is Louis Farrekan when you need him?

I am not at all surprised by this verdict because if you can shoot an unarmed man who was reaching for his wallet and get away with it then anything and everything is allowed by the corrupt NYPD. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and live around the corner from one of the most corrupt precincts in New York City. I have witnessed crimes against black males that were unwarranted. My family has protested and my father participated in many of the meetings at the precinct and one of the biggest problems was the turnout. You can not wait for an egregious act to be committed in order to be involved in your community. Police seem to be able to do whatever it is that they want because the law is on their side. To Sean Bell’s family it is a tragedy and unfortunate and basically criminal that these savages are not held accountable for their blatant attack on three unarmed black men.

Who cares if the story changed a million times!!! The fact of the matter is Over 50 shots and no weapon was found on the Bell crew!!!! Point blank! If the officers did yell freeze or whatever… the guys were drunk leaving a strip club… they probably were loud, and hyped and didnt hear the officers or take them seriously. If it was at night they could have thought they were about to get jacked or mugged. Anyway………
This is the most ridiculous and disheartening thing ever. I am so sick and tired of overzealous and trigger happy police officers slaughtering people in the street for no reason. Its incidents like this that make us not trust the law inforcement. I hate cops… they often suffer from and bad case of grandiosity or narcisism or some other superiority complex. When it’s all said and done, They do what ever they want. And the cost is a life they deem unworthy. Its so many drug dealers, murderers, molestors, rapist and all of that all over the average urban area…but every day black men that have some sort of positivity going on are the ones they snuff out. Not the scum. This man was about to be married. How many young men his age are thinking about marriage? Settling down and starting a life with someone? Why is it always a school kid getting good grades, a college student home on break, a family man coming home late from doing a double shift? Why is it that it is never some murderous thug? Why is it never a known repeat pedifile? THEY are killing and jailing our black men! How can we progress if we dont have our strength in tact? This is a blantant example of GENOCIDE!

aisha wat u mean it was his time to go??? CUT THE BULLSHIT OUT… HE WAS JUST AT THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME…

Whoever was the prosecuter for this case I believe that they “purposedly” did not do their best on handling and presenting this case. It’s ashame how do you mistakenly shoot someone 50x’s wouldn’t you think that the person would be down after the first 2 shots.

I AM STILL PISSED !!!!! *screaming*

But they wonder why we are so bitter…it is because it never ends and this is the world we live in. Damn right I am bitter. This mess has to stop.

THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW CORRUPT OUR COUNTRY IS!!!!!! AINT NO WAY IN HELL THOSE COPS SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN OFF FOR SHOOTING THAT BOY UP LIKE THAT!! YOU DONT SHOOT SOMEBODY BY ACCIDENT 30 SOMETHING TIMES AND CALL IT AN ACCIDENT!
JUST KNOW THAT GOD DONT LIKE UGLY AND THOSE COPS DESERVE WHATEVER THEY GOT COMING TO THEM!!!

IS IT TOO LATE TO START A RIOT??!!!!!

Today is a very sad day. I’m actually teary eyed. It saddens me to know this is the government we support. My prayers go out to Nicole, after her lost all she could have asked for was justice and to see that’s not received, saddens me.

I can only pray for her and her family. I can only pray for the judicial system as well. And if my faith wasn’t as strong, I would doubt at times.

Everything happens for a reason. My people get involved - -don’t just become football/basketball players WE NEED MORE OF US IN THE GOVERNMENT - - teach our children the value of politics & economics.

I was not surprised when i saw the verdict either, I mean the day Justice is served in America is the day hell freezes over! I’m sorry but the United States has the worst judicial system in the world! How do you JUSTIFY shooting a man 50 times?!? it’s ridiculous, sad, disgusting, inexplicable………I have three brothers and I can’t even imagine what I would do in that situation. I am going to pray very hard for the victims families, as well as the families of the police officers because they are the ones who have to go to bed at night and be reminded of what they have done. There are no winners here, everyone has lost. it’s so sad.

THIS IS SOME BULLSH*T! STR8 BULLSH*T!!!! OMG… taxes and dogs are cared for more than the life of a young (innocent) BLACK MAN?!?! WTF! See…… (sigh) pls let the end of this be near Lord…

Hum… I would like to hear the ENTIRE story because they just can’t let the officers walk with out sensible cause. There is more to this story. I will google and get back.

look people just because a black officer was involved does NOT mean it aint about race…wisen up please

@ #65

I was thinking the same thing.

THE HUNT IS ON AND WE ARE THE PREY. taken from curtis mayfield you had two blk and one cacuasian slaughter a young man. the men in blue is never for you .now this should be a wake up call BLACK PEOPLE to take that inventory we are on our on. i see things like for a policeman to get in the exclusive club of the brotherhood you must make a kill and the blk man is the prey. because I HAVE SEEN WHITE MEN THAT HAVE murdered mass. state troopers and they went into the woods and brought him out in cuffs walking on many ocassions white males have killed law officers and they are arrested still w/ life SPARED. THE WHITE MAN GETS DO DO THE PERB WALK . a blackman the order comes down from the top is to EXTERMINATE WITH EXTERME PREJUDICE . AND I’AM NOT LIEING. now if this doesn’t galvinize the black community to stop the black on black hate and violence and the destructive road we are headed down we are doomed . WAKE UP black murderers , thugs, theives, perveyors of destruction this system has the black race on self-destruct. malcom said THIS SYSTEM IS NOT GEARED FOR A BLACK PERSON . IT IS A SYSTEM THAT GEARS US FOR FAILURE. START TODAY .don’t let em win FOR MR.BELL’S SAKE PLEASE.

This is crazy, I am so mad right now after reading the story on my homepage. There’s so much injustice with this story. After all of that gunfire NO WEAPONS were found on Bell including his friends that were shot too, but lived. That’s crazy! I really feel for Bell’s fiance and their children. They need prayer right now more than anything. We all do!

@ 24
wasn’t one of the cops black? i don’t think this is a race thing. black people always trying to make everything about race. this was a “connection thing”. The judge made the ruling, the cops are apart of his circle of power. Plain and simple.

……

You got one part right about it being about the circle of power and higher ups looking out for eachother. It is still about race, nonetheless. Even though main trigger happy cop was Black he still did the racist whites a favor. That’s easy for anyone to understand. One more Black man dead and away from his family and raising his children, which is definitely needed in our Black communities.

You know its a sign of the times when a dog’s life and unpaid taxes are more severe than a black man being shot on what is suppose to be the happiest day of his life.

Not only is a dog’s life more valuable than a human’s life, it has been proven more than once IN 2007!

I know for a fact that a lady left her baby in the car b/c her fat ass was too busy thinking about some damn DONUTS and her baby died. No charges were filed. Oh and she was on camera making more than one trip to take the donuts into the building. THEN she moved the car.

A fucking dead dog was left in a girls backyard by her NEPHEW and she got locked the fuck up for a minute. It wasn’t even her dog AND the NEPHEW admitted to leaving the dead dog there! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is sad. White folks have the judicial system on lock. Mike Vick goes to prison over some damn dogs, but you murder a Black Man and get off Scott-free.

I bet if the tables were turned, ther verdict would’ve been different. Damn shame! My heart goes to his family and friends!

No I agree with Aisha, shit does just happend they happend for a reason, ya’ll who dont disagree witht this obviously doesnt beleive in God- May Beils soul rest in peace- Jugdement will come to those who killed him, I’m convinced it was delibrate..

This is another sad outcome.. It’s not black or white it’s a BLUE thing! It’s an NYPD thing! This isn’t racism it’s the unspoken code amongst law enforcement. At the very least they should have rec’d a reckless endangerment charge! Dude reloaded…

No one wins in this case…..

The other victims messed up also when they didn’t stick to the grand jury version of their story… their police records didn’t give them any credibility and then they embellished their original stories… the law is the law.. whom does it protect? well we know it protects those “who serve us”…. their embellishments helped allow a clear path to a not guilty verdict. The police records would have been a non-issue had they stuck to their original story… People tend to tell the truth as it happened and remembered right after an event…. and even if they embellised a little right after it happened it wouldn’t have mattered.. they embellished a lot… str8 lied on some things…

This is truely an outrage, even if Sean and his friends were in the wrong, the officers did not have to shoot that many times. I really feel for his family. My thoughts and prayers go out to them. One of the officers was a black man, so this really has nothing to do with race. The police and the judge were all on the same team. Besides they don’t care if we kill each other. It’s all about the police being a gang and sticking to their stories so that they can do what ever they want to whom ever they want and not being afraid of being in the wrong. If you kill a dog then you go to jail and if you have a badge and you recklessly kill people then you get a get outta jail free card. I hate police because they have never protected me and my own nor have they ever solved any shootings in my neighborhood or even investigated it.
I really hope that we as a people stand up and support the Bell family when they appeal this ridiculous and unjustly verdict. I also hope that those officers who did the crime stay outta sight for a while because I think they might be on a hit list out there. The people outside the court house looked really pissed off. I just hope that everyone goes about handling this case the right way so that justice will be served.

Man Thats Some Fuckin Bullshit….
2pac n Eskay said it right…
“Cops give a damn about a negro/ pull a trigga, kill a nigga he’s a hero”

Now if that was a white “Billy Bell” they would be under the jail

@ 48 LEE

Did I ever say that I condone racism?! Please tell me where I said that? So stop making an ASS of yourself. It’s very sad that a young man died. But the judge made the decision that he thought was fair based on evidence presented. And it’s not like the judge allowed the cops to get off because they were cops, he had sentenced a couple of cops to jail prior.

this is the saddest story

Thanks for that #52

if you go against the police you will never win. the law always favor the police no matter what. it just the way it is. so sad.

#24 this is about race! And it doesn’t matter if one of the cops were black. I’m not sure what it is but when officers graduate from that academy they see nothing but blue! Some of the black ones r worst than the white ones(like that black office in boyz in the hood)! I’m not saying all but most! If race isn’t a factor then why doesn’t this same sh*t happen in white neighborhods? It only happens in black and latino communities! If its not about race then what is it about?

@ SAMECH. Min. Farrakhan will be speaking on this subject (Sean Bell) and the senseless shootings and killings that have taken place in Chicago and all over the country tonight at his temple in Chicago. He’s gone around the country and has made a series of Stop the Killing speeches urging those of us who inhabit this country and the world to have more respect for life. Obviously people aren’t listening. Which is sad because it’s only going to get worse as a result of that.

Yo NYC you need to shut the fuck up!

Fuck a case…fuck any evidence…this brother was murdered - the actions taken by these officers were unjust, unbelievable, and wreckless!

I don’t give two shits about a jury they murdered an unarmed young man that didn’t commit any crime. There actions was based solely on wild assumptions!

Don’t bring that shit in here talking about “they had shitty witnesses” .

The man got hit 30 something times and he didn’t have a weapon what more do we need to know!

Seriously,

Fuck this blog shit …Get strapped up!

All the 5’s and 6’s out there need to put down the weed and the coke and start banging for their freedom instead on each other!

Shit is ridiculous…

You mean to tell me that the NYPD has the given right to take my life based off of pure assumptions!

So while all these young black people are complaining about T.I. not being punished severely for HAVING (not using) guns, have a look at how the system works against black men EVERYDAY. How can you shoot someone 50 times and not be deemed reckless?…..if the victim were white these guys would have been convicted! For every ONE black male we have that beats the system (T.I.), they get TEN of us back.

Don’t complain when we get ONE!!!

Like I said yesterday, Wesley gets 3 years for owing money, but owning a black mans life, nothing at all.

Today I will be rioting!

Damn shame…

SONS OF BITCHES!!!!! so people can murder and get away with it?????? Is this the principle that the American justice system is touting? This is why i am moving my ass to Canada, the Carribbean, or to Liberia. getting out of AmeriKKKA.

Like I said yesterday, Wesley gets 3 years for owing money, but owning a black mans life, nothing at all.

Rioting Makes Sense !!! All revolution has come in a hostile environment, we black people are way to passive and we get pacified to easily. Sorry for the profane language but, Fuck That, Time to act like they do…Get Busy All.

@93

This is why you won’t get anywhere. You base everything on emotion. Fuck evidence? I’m sure that if you were on trial, you’d want them to fuck evidence huh? You sound stupid.

@ 97

RIOTING MAKES SENSE?! LMAOOOO

And you wonder why they think we’re savages huh?

lol@ #94!!!!! my ass is mad….I wearing black dresses and my black panther shirt to work next week!!! After this attack Obama foolishness, this case, and shitloads of others, I am become blacker by the day. I am going natural and replacing my 16 inches of permed hair. I am wearing my big wooden hoops in my ears at work today…scaring white folks!!!!!!

Karma is a mutha. Sean Bell and his crew were all drug dealers. They killed themselves. Now nyggers are looking at this for a reason to wild out. There will be more blood shed. I don’t give a fyke. They brought this on themselves. Guzman is fat cocky mofo. They all are. ONLY NYGGERS ARE GONNA WILD OUT. Now Seans Fiancee, (TYPICAL)hood,money chasing chick is dating AL. SHE GOT OVER SEAN REAL QUICK. Decent blacks are going about their business. IT’s the nyggers that want to set fires. I hope the cops have a field day busting their heads wide open. When will NYGGERS learn their position. Decent people feel me, but a nygger will argue with me. PEACE!

PEOPLE ARE GROWING TIRED OF THUGS. IT’S NOT A RACIAL ISSUE, IT’S A MENTALITY ISSUE. IF I WERE ON DUTY, THE SAME THING PROBABLY WOULD HAVE HAPPEN. SORRY. THAT’S HOW I’M FEELING RIGHT NOW. AL MILKED THE HELL OUT OF THIS CASE. I CAN’T STAND HIM EITHER. I CAN’T WAIT TIL THE TRUTH COMES OUT. THESE GUYS WERE NOTHING BUT COCKY THUGS. AND THE JUDGE SAW THIS. NEXT…

God sees all this. Karma is a bitch and those police will get it. I wish I knew what was coming to them but. Bell will get justice afterall. Keep the faith

ugh , im on sping break (im 15) and i woke up cause my mom called me from work to see what the verdict was.

its so tragic that this is the world me and my younger sister have to grow up in.

oh now im getting teary-eyed, how can this happen?

@ #74 i agree, we had this discussion in my english class and that means NOTHING to me. Just beacuse theres one black cop doesnt mean that race wasnt an issue. This sounds a little ignorant to say, but let it have been a white man, all HELL wouldve broke loose by now.

@ #101 tabby , are you serious right now?!

Tabby, who the hell are you and how do you know that information? You are probably a Fox news commentator in disguise. Stop the bitch-assness!

@NYC,
DO YOU THINK I CARE THAT THEY THINK WE ARE SAVAGES?!!
NAW MAN, YOU CAN DRESS UP, PLAY NICE, MARCH PEACEFULLY AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ACT LIKE SAVAGES. TO CATCH A KILLER YOU HAVE TO BE A KILLER. WE CAN SIT DOWN AND RALLY ANYMORE, TIMES ARE CHANGING AND THE SAME SHIT HAS BE GOING ON SINCE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN, THAT’S DAMN NEAR A HUNDRED YEARS AND MORE COUNTING THE RECKLESS ACTS THEY DID TO SLAVES ON THE REGULAR.
INSTEAD OF BEING THEIR PAWN, SHOW SOME UNITY AND FIGHT FOR WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO US FROM THE GATE. IF IT WERE YOU THAT WAS CAUGHT UP, THEN I WOULD BE ON THE SAME SHIT. STOP THE DIVISION BLACKMAN AND LEARN THAT, THEY WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO MAKE US LOOK THE VILLIAN, WHEN IN REALLY THEY ARE.

@ #101, I’ll be sure to post your same comment when this happens to your son, or brother, or maybe you.

IThis is so sad!!!! looking at the pictures makes me even sader my prayers go out to them and there fam!!!!

well . that is messed up.

they should got SOMETHING ! i mean … some one did something wrong and Sean`s family shouldn`t have to pay for it .

Lets really think about this. Do you really think if three black cops shot a middle class white man 50 times they would get off regardless of the witnesses supposedly changing their story? HELL NO! Regular officers do not shoot criminals that much even if they did have a gun…the damn SWAT team does. You right we as a people have to do better….but we also have to teach our teacher to be not only equal to these white people but better. Best believe I would sue the hell outta the NYPD!

I really feel for his fiancee and kids, i hope they stay strong and know that GOD will see justice for your family, its not too much more to say about this, its crooked cops all over the world and its just another reminder of how unfair our justice system is, But like i said, they’ll have there justice its only a matter of time, GOD BLESS and GOD Rest his soul…

I just can’t understand why the police would have to fire 50 shots at an individual even if there were a gun involved. That type of gun play should be directed towards more of a serious situation bank robbery gone bad etc. Shameless to say I’ve heard about this story more than once but never read deep into to know what exactly happened but still I say the procedures taken by the NYPD was unjustly. That’s why there is a constant fear of the police and never no cooperation. My heart and prayers go out to the family of Sean Bell.

WTF @ Tabby.The thug/drug dealer shit is just an excuse because that’s what they think black men are only capable of which isn’t even true.How can you go on the street and be like this man is a thug?

BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This just pisses me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a spiritual war. It’s no longer exclusively black versus white, it never was exclusively that. The coon negro element has always been utilized to cause confusion and blur the lines of truth and still are utilized for that purpose. The black and hispanic cops are the same entity as the white man and operate with the same mind. They may join the police force with upright intentions; and many just join for a paycheck, but they must prove to the white element of the police force that their loyalties lie with the police force, not their own people. As the United States economy continues to fall and the pay scale for police continues to plummet, as it has in New York, look for more and more publicized cases of black men being gunned down by black and hispanic cops. The white man no longer finds it necessary to dirty his own hands when he has good, loyal coon negroes that can do it for him. All one has to do is look at the new ranks of the police and how they’ve obviously lowered their standards to acceptance into the police department to see that the training cannot be up to par if the hiring is not up to par.

Dam, this just goes to show you just how much “our” justice system and societ y values a black life. But I pose a question do value our own lives? You see this court took in consideration the history and the reputation of these guys. (aside fronm being Black) These guys had criminal records and drug offences. I my eyes and for most of us that should not matter beacuse 50 bullets fired at an unarmed man wether a former felon or not is criminal. But we as need to become more a part of the system politically.We must frown on the ideas that:BEING a felone is cool, being a H.S. dropout is acceptable, having gang affiliation is cool, getting good grades as uncool. not voting! Walking around with your pants hanging off your A$$?? I know there are so many things that the prejudice people in general will define or equate as being black. But,there are so many things that we naturally place in our way to deter our influence in society, all the while our justice system does not respect us. We have to look at ourselves as well an get our houses in order, socio-economically and politically. NOW WHO DO WE HAVE TO RELY ON TO GET JUSTICE FOR THE BELL CASE? THE FEDS!!! WHAT A JOKE! we need to wake up!

man that is so sad

justice my ass

You mean to tell me, even IF they believed the men…….did they NOT realize that NO ONE was shooting back at them?!?………..WTH……… are they that stupid. What the hell made them fire in the first place. NO ONE was pointing a gun at them! And even IF they believed the men were trying to escape (run them down), why didn’t they shoot out the tires?!?……. This is a effing disgrace. GOD is crying!!

Understanding the fact of having to shoot because “I though my life was in danger”. Why not shoot to disable if you thought you were in danger? Get out of the way, until back up arrives; but to take a life rather he had criminal behavior at one point or another is really irrelevant. How can you justify, taking a man’s life that was UNARMED?! Why didn’t the cops shoot the tires on the car to disable it, considering the car was at this point being looked upon as a weapon? The U.S. is not for US it’s for citizens who are socially, and economically at the top of the ranks! This young man’s life was taking because he didn’t fit into either one of those categories, so to the JUDGE he didn’t matter. What we must realize is no matter how much injustice we as a people who don’t fit the U.S. Social and Economical standards endure; the very folks who are judge and jury now, will be the same people in line with us common folk waiting on their verdict in the book of life. My heart goes out to his family and his friends and their family during this difficult time.

That just shows that rasicm hasn’t gone anywhere. That’s crazy. I mean the fact of 50 bullets in his body says enough. I just think society will never change. To them there’s just a different value when it comes to blacks and whites. I live and promote love no matter what the color. When it comes down to it we all shall be judged. I believe in that.

@107 AND 113 I’m from this area,so I know what I’m talking about. IT’S A DRUG INFESTED AREA. Do you see anybody getting upset like this when a black man kills another? Where did they work? If you followed this case and listen and watched, and if you know the streets from a decent working class point of view, then you would see the real deal.

what’s up with this??? I’m sitting here crying.. Who are these judges in New York who do not up hold the law… This is sinceless I don’t care who’s story changes day 2 day, the fact remains there were no firearms found in the car with the men, two surving men left to tell the story and still NOBODY LISTENED!!! There’
s got to be a better way… Some type of charges need to brought up against this biased a** judge!! Sad to say, but I wish it was the Judges son and friends who this happened to, I would like to see the outcome of that trial??? mother f_____s!!! got me pissed!!

My heart goes out to Sean Bell’s family, fiance & children.

Yes, it is sad when killing a dog or non-payment of taxes fits more for punishment than the taking of a human-being’s life. Hell, even Paris Hilton served a longer sentence than these officers. It’s unfortunate how America’s society is. Just look at the fact there is still Katrina victims living in trailers while the tourists spots and superdome in New Orleans look as if no hurricane ever hit. All the poverty & overcrowding schools, but yet America spends like billions a month on the war? Jesus please take the wheel.

Still speechless…….

Stop depending on God to turn a situation around. God has no matter in this! Each person on earth has free will. You have the will to do good…and the will to do bad. I prefer to do good…but when people don’t play by the rules…you must then take matters into your own hands.

Slaves prayed…but that didnt stop them from being enslaved for over 300 years. Action changes situations. Pray for vision and strength…but rely on your own action to turn things in yoru favor!

Black men are being eliminated from this earth. But no one can eliminate you unless you let them. No one makes us committ crimes…no one forces men to be gay…Gay men are a threat to the black race. Not because they are bad people…most are very good people! They deserve each and every right that all Americans deserve!

The problem with Gay men is that they do not re-produce. Since they arent in relationships with women…no children will be born from them. This simple act highly cuts down on the amount of young black babies being born. The amount of black men in jail highly cuts down on the amount of black babies being born! Wake up people! No one makes you do anything! You do it out of fear or mis-understanding.

No one fears you…that’s why police officers will continue to shoot and kill. Who would ever think to shoot a Jew? You won’t! Because you fear the heavy consequences that you would face!

Do for yourself. Stop telling your children to “get a job” and “go to school” and instead encourage them to own their own business and read multiple books! Stop pushing them in directions that keep them under the power of other people.

Do not acquire any debt! That debt keeps you a slave to your boss. You can never leave work or stand up for yourself at work because you have a mortgage, car loan, credit cards and even a 2nd home equity loan. Pay for everything in cash! If you don’t have the cash…that means you can’t afford it!

The rules of the game of life are laid out before you…but are you paying attention?

The judiciary system is corrupt. People if you can stay out of it, trouble is very easy to get into but so hard to get out. As you have just witnessed, justice is not always served.

All I want to say and I hope my comment is not deleted………….
BUT………THAT F*%#iING BULLSH%#!!!!
HOW THE HELL CAN THEY SHOOT THAT POOR MAN THAT MANY DAMN TIMES AND GET OFF, I DONT CARE WHAT STORIES THEY THOUGHT WERE NOT ADDING UP. THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING. SEAN BELL LEFT BEHIND HIS LOVING FAMILY THAT COULD NOT EVEN GET JUSTICE ON HIS BEHALF OVER SOME BULLSHIT!!!!! THATS STRAIGHT BULL!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO SORRY FOR HIS FAMILY AND IM CRYING FOR THEM, THATS NO KIND OF JUSTICE WHAT SO EVER. AND THEY WONDER WHY NOBODY TRUST THE POLICE OR THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM. ITS ALL SCREWED UP AND WORKS FOR THE WRONG PEOPLE. HE GOT SHOT FOR NOTHING!!!! HE DIDNT HAVE A GUN. HE WAS CELEBRATING TO BE MARRIED!!!! THATS JUST BULL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is really horrible. i have no faith in this country’s justice system what-so-ever. guilty men go free if they have the monetary means and innocent people suffer because they have no clout. *smh*

sean bell had a family, children to help raise, people who loved and cared about him. his life was taken and no one is being held responsible. its an outrage.

i believe we as americans need to take responsibility for our actions. we are always searching for the “excuse” that won’t hold us accountable. and then telling other people that their government or their way of life is not just. WTF?? we need to take care of home first. this is just the one of the things on the long list of what is wrong with our country.

This is truly sad.My prays goes out to his family.With regards to the police officers I’hve nothing to say to them.This shows that black people need to stick together

I have to say im a white male from suburbia.. and This definatley just turned into a race case.. This women needs to take this higher, at this point she needs to sew the city.. The strenght that Mrs. Bell has right now and/or needs is overwhelming, we as a country need to support her. I am so unbelievably outraged at this mess of a judicial system we have in this country!! I cant understand how any of these monsters have gotten away with this…

These guys did not rep decent blacks, sorry. So I wouldn’t shed a tear for them. We know what’s up. And for the people who choose to address me, you probably co-sign thug life. BE MAD ABOUT HOW BLACKS ARE TREATED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTEM. BE MAD ABOUT BLACK HEALTH COVERAGE. HAVE YOU PROTESTED THOSE ISSUES?? THIS HERE…SAVE YOUR BREATH. IT WILL NEVER STOP AS LONG AS NYGGERS FEEL THEY ARE UNTOUCHABLE. STOP ACTING LIKE YA’LL DON’T KNOW WHAT’S UP! YOU GET BACK WHAT YOU PUT OUT. I DON’T CARE HOW IT’S PACKED. I KNOW FOR SOME OF US, THAT HAD DECENT PARENTS GROWING UP, THEY WARN YOU ABOUT THIS. YEAH THINGS HAPPEN BUT THESE GUYS WERE COCKY. SO…look up their backgrounds and tunes wil change with a quickness. No I am not a news reporter. I am a concerned parent that prays and play my position so that my child will not fall into these negative stereotypes. And I’m am just brave enough not to jump on the race wagon and see thing for what they are… NEXT

Also I would like to add, it is really ashamed because there are SO many crooked cops out there. People paying them off, confiscating drugs and guns and keeping some for themselves. Feeling up some women they may pull over , beatings that just get covered, harassing folks just because, power trippin’, gun-happy cops, the co’s in prison raping inmates, cutting side deals with inmates, and then there’s the cops getting off scotch free…..

DAMN, THAT’S CRAZY. I TOTALLY DONT AGREE WITH THE VERDICT.

A black life has never been worth anything in AmeriKKKa. We’re talking NY here so this shouldn’t surprise any of us…NY, Boston and Philly are three of the most racist cities I’ve ever seen. But after the Amadou Diallo incident, we should have seen this coming…so sad for the family…OMG…I hope they sue NYC into bankruptcy.

And they ask why I sing the songs I sing. A they wonder why I write the way I write. Hell no! I’m not shutting up! STAY STRONG SISTER! This case ain’t over yet, its just the first chapter. People continue to put these issues on blast and not all this other superficial junk that taken in everyday. We need to wake the hell up!

STREET KINGS– that’s all i’m going to say

And I don’t know how those two black cops can show their face in the community ever again.

@99 NYC

Who gives a ratsa** about what white people think, they are savages and their history proves it.

And the judge had the nerve to imply that “they may have brought it on themselves”…. clearly his mind was made up before the trial began.

It’s OK —- They all have another JUDGE to face, and he will not be biased, but their punishment will be just.

Three words WHAT THE FUCK?! How the hell you not gonna be guility for shooting a person 50 plus times? This is some straight up bullshit?! Those detectives are going straight to hell! They know they did it!

Someone mentioned T.I. and guns. For 1 T.I. didn’t kill anyone this young man died for no reason. HE WAS SHOT 50 TIMES!!! Someone please make me understand were is the justice in that.

THIS IS TRULY A SAD DAY FOR ME I ACTUALLY CRIED AFTER HEARING THE VERDICT THIS IS JUST DISGRACEFUL. MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO SEAN BELL’S FAMILY HE LOOKED LIKE A FINE YOUNG MAN IT IS A DAMN SHAME AND THOSE COPS DO NOT HAVE AN OUNCE OF REMORSE FOR WHAT THEY DID THOSE BASTARDS!!

@ 99 NYC

* and their present*

IVE NEVER BEEN THIS OUTRAGED IN MYH LIFE.THE JUDGE SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS POSITION BECAUSE WITHOUT EVIDENCE AT ALL THOSE COPS HAD NO RIGHT TO GUN DOWN AN UNARMED MAN PERIOD..AND NOT ONLY ONCE DID THEY SHOOT..BUT THEY SHOT OVER 50 ROUNDS..HOW IS THAT JUSTIFIED?????MAN F**k DA COPS YO..NO LIE..

As a native New Yorker, I will say that I am not surprised at all. Yeah, it really hurts me to the core they these pigs got off, but I also understand that we are indeed living in the land of our OPPRESSOR. Its sad that many of you are still naive into thinking that any form of “justice” was going to be served today. I guess some of you thought that times has changed because of Obama.
The fact is that times hasn’t changed, shit is getting worse. Racism is alive and well in this country. As far as the “Justice System” is concerned, many of you will be SURPRISED by what goes on under the veil. Just ask any of your friends and family members that actually been incarcerated. And no, I ain’t talking about some punk ass 8 month sentences either, lets talk 10 years and up. Are any of you even aware that once you are released and are still on parole that you are required to pay monthly restitution fee to the state? Oh, and if you decide not to pay, guess where your black ass is going back to? Extortion at it’s finest!
I’m sorry to say this, but there were many before Sean Bell and sadly, there will be many after that will suffer the same travesty. That is why we as a people need to put all the negative shit aside and stand together, because nobody else don’t give a shit about us.
Reminder:
Amadou Bailo Diallo
Patrick Moses Dorismond
Abner Louima
Timothy Stansbury, Jr.
Ramona Moore
Sean Bell…and counting

completely unfair!

I don’t usually use a lot of profanity, but this is some BULL SH*T!!! I feel like the government gives some people too much power so that they can get away with anything! My prayers go out to the family!

i’m speechless…

I live in NY and the atmosphere out here is crazy…ppl are grieving left and right like it was just yesterday…I tried to take my mind off of it but now that I came back on the site; I know realize you cannot run away from something like this and can only deal with it…

The verdict was ridiculous…how can you not even find them guilty of negligence is my question….It’s as if the “black life” is meaningless out here and IT”S SAD!!!!!!!

Police really should watch how they treat others b/c one day it can be their own, once again sad, but true.

My prayers go out to the family and friends of Mr. Bell

AND TO ALL MY FELLOW NY’ERS OR PPL AFFECTED BY THIS KEEP YA HEAD B/C THEY’RE WAITING FOR A REASON TO ARREST AND KILL US!!!! IT’S TIME WE START TAKING A PAGE OUT OF DR. KING’S BOOK AND STAND TOGETHER NON-VIOLENT!!!

We black people need to stop all of this black on black crime and scaring the po-po into thinking they should shoot us instead of us shooting them first. We are doing this to ourselves. THUG LIFE EQUALS NO LIFE!!!!!!

Blame George Bush because he hates black people.

This shit is ridiculous I know his family is devastated by this verdict the NYPD are the absolute worst. How the fuck can you get away with murder this just lets them know that they can do it again. 50 BULLETS? GTFOH!

Thanks DAVID (#91)

@ # 13: In this case, it is irrelevant as to the witnesses’ statements. I read the official article on Yahoo and US Today. The Yahoo article ends verbatim “The truth emerged when the smoke cleared: There was no weapon inside Bell’s blood-splattered car.” So, witnesses don’t matter in this case.

Also, race may be the cause, but that is not the issue here either. The issue is that this gentleman was completely unarmed, and they fired 50 shots into his vehicle. It doesn’t take 50 shots to take down a wild animal. It was excessive any way you slice it. There is undeniable proof that he was unarmed. If if he was armed, 50 shots can not be explained. This is one of those days when you just want to go to sleep and forget what’s going on in the world for a while. I was having a very good day until I read about this.

I refuse to read AOL’s article on this b/c the posters on there always have something racist to say, even when the topic is not about race. AOL needs to monitor their boards better as other sites do.

@ # 25: Thanks for the info J. The trial should be very interesting.

This case is a prime example of the reason why the relationship between police enforcement and the public at large has continued to decline in the last few decades. There are some good honest cops out there, but there are still too many reckless law enforcement officers on some type of “mission”. People find it very difficult to trust law enforcement when things of this nature happen.

I am just praying for the karma train to pull up to the station and dock.

This is a messed up situation that has left a fiancee and a child without! For real, how can cops shoot at someone over 50 bullets and pretty much get away with it! Yo, I would hate to be them….or in Queens NY for that matter! Cuz Sh*t is going to hit the fan! That’s a damn shame!

Why did that cat try to run? A car is considered a deadly weapon. It was a very stupid decision on his part. We all have to liv by the decisions we make. It is unfortunate and I pray for him and his family - RIP S. Bell!

It is definately a shame. It feels like we just fell back 100 years. Is this truly the new millennium? Is this place really a place of the people? Realistically, NO, it is not, and we really do need to come together and fight for what we deserve. We ARE ALL SEAN BELL’S.

I fucking hate this world.

Let’s stop teaching our children to hate white people and police officers. If someone was trying to run you down with a car outside of a sketchy spot at 3am and you were an officer of the law you would consider them armed and dangerous too. I don’t think the pig should have shot the car up like Rambo but he did have the right to defend himself as an officer of the law. The officer should lose his right to continue to serve in the police force and the unfortunate family should become millionaires for the loss of a fine young man. It’s all truly sad….but we can’t blame the entire white society for his death. The po po just killed a WHITE college student with a taser gun in Ohio last Saturday night for simply trying to state his case / defend his friend from being arrested. It happens to white people too.

Our people are just so damn simple. I don’t know if it’s more pathetic or sad.

WE need to WAKE UP. If you didn’t already know or never cared to think about it.

Here is what they think about “US”.

Knew this was going to happen. We as African-Americans need to wake-up and pay attention. Yes, we have made steps in the right direction, but we are still less valuable than any other race. If we don’t kill ourselves, they are going to (accidentally) do it for us.

Accidents do happen, but 50 shots. Are you kidding me. Where is the weapon he supposedly had… Crickets…..

NYPD is now the LAPD!

Rodney King live free and prosper!!!!!! Just stop beating the shhhh out of all those women and stay off the smack too…..

That is absolutely…just beyond. BEYOND. No words.

LMAOOOOO!!!!! @ #100 aka THE WIRE ADDICT

LOL *wipes tears away* your killing me over here… that was some funny ish, i know this is a serious sitaution… but damn that was sooo funny, lol

———-Lev 26:17

When a black guy is on trial it’s another story isn’t it?

Was OJ Guilty?
Did you folks bitch and moan when he went free?
I doubt it.
We have a justice system and we have to believe in it or else we will be just like athirrd world Nation, Just hanging people because we don’t like the outcome of a verdicr.

What people are saying regarding this gentleman’s background is irrelevant. People change, and people reform. Some of the greatest gospel singers & beloved ministers, (John P. Kee, etc.) have admitted to being involved in gang/drug activities in the past. Sean was not involved in anything illegal at the time of the shooting.

# 125: You have a right to your opinion, but prayer DOES change things. Prayer + positive action is the only reason we are all able to be on here making comments today. I disagree with most of your comments, but I do agree with the part about debt. Debt is awful. Try your best to pay for things in cash, or wait until you are able to honestly pay for it in cash.

“Damn! Wesley gets 3 yrs for a non-violent crime, NYPD gets nothing for killing an unarmed man and injury others.”

Wesley, screwed us the United States people out of 20 MILLION dollars. What the hell are you complaining about?

Is that not a crime?

NOW COME NOVEMBER MY BLACK PEOPLE NEEDS TO WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 08 IS A LEAP YEAR AND A YEAR OF WEIRD OCCURRENCES..AND WE NEED TO WAKE UP..OBAMA IS THE MAN FOR THE JOB..BECAUSE US BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO STOP DEPENDING ON THE SYSTEM TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE IT BETTER..WE NEED TO DO IT FOR OURSELVES..REGARDLESS WHERE WE ARE..THE MORE THESE CASES OF OUR BLACK MEN BEING GUNNED DOWN OR PUT IN JAIL FOR NO REASON AT ALL THE MORE IT WILL TAKE FOR OUR PEOPLE TO OPEN UP THEIR EYES..
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE IVE BEEN FULLY OUTRAGED BY AN OCCUREENCE LIKE THIS…
IM 19 YRS OLD AND ONLY HEARD OF THE GRUESOME THINGS THE WHITE MAN HAS DONE UNTO MY PEOPLE BUT IT IS 2008 EVERYBODY..IT IS STILL GOING ON..

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE ((TEARS IN EYES))) I FEEL FOR SEAN BELL’S FAMILY AND ALL MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY..IF THIS DOES NOT BRING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER THEN WHAT WILL????

@ 131 TABBY

I agree there is a time to take a low key,especially when confronted by someone with a loaded gun. Though, last time I looked being cocky was’nt against the law. So being cocky is grounds to be shot fifty times, oh I see you…….. you are one of those step and fetchin type Negros. It does’nt take fifty shots to kill anyone, that’s overkill plus Mr. Bell and his friends did not have guns, what were they shooting at, it almost sounds like it was a HIT. The policemen were WRONG.

I TOLD YOU!!!!??! DIDNT I SAY YESTERDAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT CARES MORE ABOUT MONEY THAN HUMAN LIFE? Just yesterday i made that comment on the blog entry about Wesley Snipes getting 3 years for tax fraud!

FUCK THE COPS! THEYRE ASSHOLES! AND IT DOESNT MEAN SHIT THAT ONE OF THEM WAS BLACK. BLACK COPS ARE ASSHOLES TOO! FUCK ALLA THEM! and fuck that judge! he was in on that shit! he may as well had pulled the trigger himself! the cops knew the judge would let them go! thats why they chose not to have a jury! the jury would have put them UNDER the jail! DIRTY COPS CROOKED JUDGE NO JUSTICE! ASSHOLES

OUTRAGE!

@ DEE

What are you talking about??

Unbelievable! I’m not surprised b/c police officers are almost never convicted in situations like this. Probable cause is such a broad standard so when that is thrown in, the prosecution has to be on their A game.

It’s obvious the prosecution didn’t pull it together b/c I’m not understanding how they couldn’t argue and prove that 50 rounds WAS excessive force.

Hopefully they will go back and SUE in civil court and recoup damages for wrongful death, loss of consortium and emotional distress. Maybe even sue under Section or 1981 or 1983, civil rights statutes). No amount of money can bring her husband back but it damn sure will serve justice.

RIP Sean Bell and my immense condolences go out to the Bell family

Oh my God, this is an outrage. I hope his fiancee appeals this case.

Look people we don’t know waht really happened.
Lets not jump to the conclusion that just because Sean was Black he was right and he was innocent.
Maybe the Judge knew more than we do.
Maybe Sean and his pals were not so innocent.
Let’s just keep calm and let this work out.
God will see that justice is done.
We can not assume that what we think happened really did happen.
As some one else said. O.J was set free, and he sure as hell was a guilty dude.
No justice was served there.
But he will get his in due time. I jsut can’t wait untill he does.

Peace

Sad! As a young black american it shows that we have came no further with race relations than we were 50 years ago! Rest Well Sean B. I’ll pray for your family’s strength!

I GUESS FROM WHITE LYCHING ROPES TO BLACK TRACKING BULLETS ,NO JUSTICE ,THIS IS NOT SAFARI, THEY ARE HUNTING US DOWN LIKE ANIMALS .

RIP Sean Bell……….Noone deserves to die like that even if he tried to disobey the law. The pigs should have shoot his tires out or something, especially with considerable back-up. The situation was definitely handled horribly by the NYPD officers, but dayum why did he try to run? Sad Sad Sad!

I was shocked by the outcome of this whole thing. For me, i feel like it hits too close cuz that could have been anyone’s family going thru what tha bell’s are goin thru at this very moment. I want to know what is it goin to take for the justice system to change the way they go about giving justice to grieving families.WHEN YOU SHOOT SOMEONE 31 TIMES && RELOAD THAT IS M U R D E R. Point, blank, period. This man left behind 2 beautiful little girls, a beautiful wife, a mother, a father && countless other family members. My heart goes out to them.

@ 101 TABBY

Even if they were drug dealers there is still called a thing called………due process.

@179

Whether we know the full story or not, 50 shots is NEVER justified!!! Especially when the man is unarmed.

(OFF THE SUBJECT)….TO THE CHILD THAT POSTED COMMENTS EARLIER HOME FOR SPRING BREAK I WANT TO COMMEND OU FOR BEING AN INTELLIGENT 15 YR OLD. CONTINUE TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND MAKE GOOD DECISIONS. AS A 33 YR OLD IT MAKES ME PROUD TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE YOUNG ADULTS LIKE YOU THAT ARE CONCERNED ABOUT MORE THAN JUST WATCHING VIDEOS AND HAVING THE LATEST FASHION.

I’m sorry if this gets deleted or whatever but FUCK THE POLICE 4 REAL.
R.I.P. ALL MURDERED POLICE VICTIMS! LETS FIGHT THE POWER PEOPLE and RESTORE POWER TO THE COMMUNITY. THEY WALKIN’ ALL OVER US YA’LL….SMDH

Effdat; your post is surely not going to help. It will only show people how stupid you think.
If you want to be helpful, say something constructive.

I think that the post Wykisha made was right on target.

As black folks we have to use our heads at this time and be cool, do the right thing,

I FEEL FOR SEAN BELL’S FAMILY AND ALL MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO THEM

@DEE

You devils kill me with that O.J. and 9/11 stuff, lmao. That’ s why I laughed when I saw you people jumping out of the World Trade Center (Job 5:22, Psa 52:6,7). The Most High will bring worse calamities than that on you before he destroys this place. Caucasians never forget and that’s what I like about you people. Good for you. It’s just funny that you teach other races to “forgive and forget” and “come together” and “love” when you people have never embodied those traits. For every O.J. trial, there have been 100 Sean Bell trials and there will be 100 more. Your justice system provides justice in name only. The only justice that will be provided is when Christ comes back and puts you pink bastards back into the perpetual state of servitude and torture that you deserve for your crimes against the other races and the earth itself (Isa 14:20,21, Rev 13:9,10).

Ok, the only color this is about is money. Somebody in the case got some and somebody didn’t. I am sorry people but money rules the world. I live in Baltimore and we know here that you have got to pay to play which means unles you are bringing, or making some money then it doesn’t matter.

That is how it is with the government, white and black people and all races for that matter. We we get into a position of power things changes for us. This smells of a back story with the victim and the cops.

Money rules the world, money rules the world, that is it bottom line. Racism does exsist but it is just perpetuated by those who have a bigger agenda at hand, greed!

Look deeper into the situations, and see why people act and do the things they do.

In this world the problems have many layers and not just one.

Ok, the only color this is about is money. Somebody in the case got some and somebody didn’t. I am sorry people but money rules the world. I live in Baltimore and we know here that you have got to pay to play which means unles you are bringing, or making some money then it doesn’t matter.

That is how it is with the government, white and black people and all races for that matter. We we get into a position of power things changes for us. This smells of a back story with the victim and the cops.

Money rules the world, money rules the world, that is it bottom line. Racism does exsist but it is just perpetuated by those who have a bigger agenda at hand, greed!

Look deeper into the situations, and see why people act and do the things they do.

In this world the problems have many layers and not just one.

DIDDY WHY ARE YOU HATING ON OBAMA…THIS BLOG IS ABOUT SEAN BELL SO SAVE THAT FOR ANOTHER DAY…

andrea e fobbs

Your post was SICK, and STUPID

Only negroes that worship money run with that “it’s not a black or white thing, it’s a money thing” nonsense.

This has me at work singing “His Eye Is On the Sparrow” to myself.

Sorry to say, but even IRAQ has more togetherness than black people. They are fighting to get the ‘infidels’ out. POWER should really be to them.

samech said:

“where is Louis Farrekan when you need him?”

I say, IN HELL I HOPE!

And JUDAH;
Don’t tyou think that there were 100’s of Black Folks killed on 9 11.
What a stupic thing you said.

Next time you need police assistance, I’m sure the goons in a Strip Club will be happy to assist you
Did anyonyone ever think that maybe the judge heard evidence that the anti-police media opted not to share with Joe Public

All the more reason OJ is a hero in my eyes. He is still the only negro to flip the United States’ unjust “justice” system to his own full advantage.

How firing 50 shots, with one cop RELOADING, isn’t even reckless endangerment is beyond me.
Granted, I haven’t seen all the evidence, but 50 shots? Reloading a gun? And these guys are acquitted on ALL charges?

Although we’ve seen things like this happen before, I am in shock. I was at least expecting a guilty verdict on the lesser charges. How can things like this continue to happen? Maybe I’m just naive in expecting more of the justice system.

RIP Sean Bell. Bless his family and friends.

Some of the posts here are disgusting.
We are not animals you know, so don’t write and talk like one.

@195

You’re damn right that blacks died on 9/11, just like black police officers get killed and black soldiers get killed in the “war on terror” and I feel no pity for any of them because they’re following the devil to their own demise. It’s not exclusively a black/white issue anymore. I mentioned that earlier. The coon element is always there and they deserve and will receive the same fate as their master. The Lord says that 2/3 (66.6%) of our people have that mark of the fourth beast on them (love of the doctrines of the caucasian) and will die with him (Zech 13:8,9, Rev 13:18).

Holyshit, 50 shots!?

I’m shocked and I am speechless.

This is really painful. The only way to be able to “deal” with this situation is to know- 1. These cops have families and universal karma has an ugly way of showing itself.
2. These cops behind the badge are Human and they have a “conscience” hopefully that will get the best of them and they will eventually reap what they have sown.
3. There is a Higher Power that they have to answer too and that Higher Power doesn’t care for skin color. Authorative positions- He cares For what is right and what is wrong.
This is alll kinds of wrong. The Police aren’t the Only OFFENDERS here- the judge, the commissioner, the mayor, jurors, the police officers peers AND the media because things like this happen all the time and they are not broadcasted to the people unless their is a “twist” or some other appeal to it. Had it been just any other night in any other circumstance in that man’s life- it would not be reported. Shit like this need to STAY in the spotlight- they need to be able to Keep the Public’s confidence In LAW ABIDING police officers. 50 Shots! Discharged from more than 1 officers gun! Are you kidding me?

actually Tabby I agree with you to a certain degree. I think it is bad he is gone, and that force did not have to be used. I pray for his wife and children because drug dealer or not he was loved, and that is something that hurts.

But he is right we all get worked up when a case comes to light in the media and we call it unfair, but this is a everyday thing in some parts of america and yet we say and do nothing. We kill each other like it is second nature. Innocent bystanders get killed in cold blood everyday, and yet we turn the channel and dismiss it.

We need to be held accountable for our part in this and start making some changes. Things are the same right now because we are still blaming others. In anything you can never change untill yourealize that there is something that needs to be changed.

Volunteer at the local schools and talk to these kids, you would be amazed and how misguided they are. It hurts me how bad that they are so lost. There morals and all screwed up. But if you are hurt by this channel that into change.

We come no closer because we only come together when something like this happens, when major tragedies happen like 9/11. When the dust settles back on the block we talk about one another like crabs in a bucket try and pull one another down. We see on sites like this everyday as we talk about the celebs how they look how they act…. we are not a people of unity… other races come tot his country and “live the american dream” they take full advantage of the resources the options. Most times people are trying to beat the system or try hard to make the system work for them… get upset and say nothing is going to change.. how do you expect change if you are part of the problem..

All this complaining going on about this case what have you done for your community? What have you offered to help change? It’s easy for us to complain and say some words but how will you put those words into action?

I’m sorry that young man had to lose his life, I’m sorry two children lost a father, two parents lost a son, a woman lost her husband to be. Of course no one should lose their life like that and I’m sure if there was a rewind button everyone will use it… but guess what? There is no rewind button we have to move forward change isn’t created by your anger it’s created by action. We always want to riot and they laugh at us and call us monkeys to see us destroy our own neighborhoods. We come together in the name of destruction like they give a damn that we are tearing up our community… They laugh everytime they see us on television cooning to music. You expect justice? 89% of the NYC cops don’t even live in the neighboorhoods they patrol and live outside of NY cap that with a scared ass cop in a situation with gun. what do you have? A dead black man!

The common man will receive no justice until you are deemed respectable… Sean Bell may have been judged by the company he kept it could have been 2 shots that killed him it still wouldn’t have mattered.

@196

The “anti-police” media, lmao? Where do you live?

This here ain’t right at all. The man wasnt armed nor was he or his friends dangerous to the cops. I dont understand how these people can get away with murder and Wisley Sniper can be locked up for tax. I know it’s different issue but lets look at it this way. I hate to play racial card agaisnt this mutherfuckers bt i am so pissed off right now. Ok lets see how many white people have done crimes. There is Paris Hilton,Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan,Mischa Barton, Mel Gibson..the list goes on and all these people who were driving under the influence of alcohol. This shit is a crime because you could kill someone and yourself too but what do they get? A pat on the back and 24 hours of jail time. There is waaay more white people who are celebrities getting away with every shit that they do, but wait until when they get to a black ass. They will lock your ass in jail. My question is why all these white people gettin so little time in jail or send their asses in rehab but when black person do something they send your ass in jail for good time?

Now lets see we have Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Mystkal(sp?), and the list goes on of black celebrities who done serve their time for some issues that they arent even there to be beggin with. Now lemme start with Snipes. Ok i know some of yall hate him for one reason or the other. But lets see how many white/hispanic celebrities that didnt pay their taxes. Did any of them receive any amount of jail time? I dont think so. But we have to ask our selves why is Snipes receiving jail time of 3 years and fine of $5 million for tax and others dont? I understand that when you do a crime you have to do the time but these Judges and Prosecutors have to play a fair card.

Now its Sean Bell’s case.Why are those cops free when they shot an innocent man wit 50 bullets. 50 MUTHERFUCKING BULLETS Yall and they get no time in jail? That is a fucking crime and there should not be any excuse for them fucking people. They murdered someone who was innocent to begin with. They took someone’s son, someone’s father and neverless someone’s fiance. That man was going to wife up someone. He was someone’s fiance. He was at his party going home. But as soon as those cops came through these people done lost it and shot an innocent man. Now i am not a judge nor a lawyer but i know when a fair deal is played and this one isnt FAIR to begin with. We have murderes cops who are free to go back on the street and we have a man who lost his life and left people with sadness that will never go away.

Our society needs to realize that no metter what colour your, you have to get the time you deserve. I dont understand why these white people get so little time in jail and all these black people get enough amount of time in JAIL. Like i said i am not gon play a race card here but this is some fucking bullshyt you cant tell me those cops are innocent for fucking killing a man with 50 bullets. You dont need to study law to get it right. Our colour will always be the pointing finger at as long as we live. Imma give yall an example of a crime happened in Canada on Boxing day

First i am agaisnt crime and i dislike crimes, i wish this world was safe for all of us. Now in canada, after Xmas day there is a boxing day shyt. A white girl was shot to death. And nobody knew who the shooter was. My heart really went out for their family because i never lost someone in a crime bt i lost so many people and i know how it feels to lose the ones you love. But the real shyt was, we have so many black kids getting killed and these cops always telling the media we have no lead nor witness. Now this girl’s case they had no lead nor a witness but their asses worked it off and focused on this girl’s killer so badly. They really paid attention to this case like it was the only first murder case. Now they found the person who did it and who knows what happened now but my reason of giving you guys this example is that. Why they were so interested on finding this girl’s killer and everytime when a black kid is gunned down nothing happens. All we hear is “POLICE HAVE MADE NO ARREST TO THE SHOOTING”. why cant it be ” WE’RE WORKING VERY SERIOUS ON THIS CASE AND WE PROMISE TO FIND THE SHOOTER”? Did they focus on that case cuz she was a white girl that had been gunned down?. Why do white people have to get the special treatment thru everything? It pains me to see that we always have to be stabbed in the back.

We need a fair deal one way or the other. My sisters and brothers, lets get out of the streets, lets go back to school and finish our education. We need more black lawyers and Judges. I am sick and tired of this law they have for us. THESE COPS NEEDS TO BE IN JAIL. And I am praying that justice will be served in either way or the other in the name of GOD these cops will get what’s coming to them. A killer shouldn’t be walking in the streets PERIOD.

REST IN PEACE SEAN BELL AND JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED one day.

REST IN PEACE JANE.

I don’t mean to be petty, but out of respect for Sean Bell and the Bell family, Concrete Loop I wouldn’t have made any new posts after this one.

Did Webster’s change the definition of guilty this morning?

this is some messed up shit…how can you be a judge and let some killers go free…that stupid a** judge..and to see that white muthafucking cop leaving out the courts with a slight smile…i’m reading every news blog just wanting it be a MISTAKE …”say it aint so LORD” IS WHAT I’M THINKING… i dont’t even know BELL but it hurt me so badly when i heard those killers got off…its a dame shame..

@59 Why would a God of love give life, then take it away by using evil cops to viciously gun down and ferociously kill this beautful young man BECAUSE IT WAS HIS TIME? What sense does that make? It doesnt, blame the right people- the PIG evil cops.

These PIGS have killed yet another innocent black man for nothing They are wicked, corrupt and lower than dog dung. They probably were jealous that these guys were having a good time. Whatever the case, it will NEVER be right to kill someone just because of the lie they came up with to cover themselves - “we thought he had a weapon”.

@59, I wonder if this vicious crime happened to your husband, brother, cousin, friend, etc.. if you would still feel like, “Oh well, It was his time”.

WICKED COPS STOP THE KILLING, STOP KILLING OUR MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Even after all this protest people, these cops are still gonna gun down our men until God step in. Sad but true.

this is a tragedy, for sure. especially that someone died.

i don’t care what his rap sheet was, what he was doing at the time as long as it was legal.

i didn’t read all the comments, but has ANYONE read what the judge wrote? i think the judge said that the car was surrounded by police and he attempted to back out and hit a police van and almost ran over a police officer.

that is assault with deadly force or something. if someone had attempted to run one of my friends over, i would try to shoot them, too.

plus, 3 cops shot, so if each clip had 15 rounds, that’s 45 shots. you don’t know if the shot once it hits the car is going to keep going straight.

i feel bad for this whole situation but if the guy tried to get away, then this would be the outcome.

I would like to say that despite these three men being deemed innocent in the new york court of law. The judge, and whoever else corrupted this case all have to answer to GOD’S court of law.

MAY HE HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOULS!

My prayers go out to the bell family.

NO WORDS……………

This was sad. I think the Police officers abused their authority and got away with it. We will never receive justice. How the hell can you shoot someone 50 times because you thought he has a gun? That I can’t grasp.

Mick Vick is in jail behind a dog! and tree police officers shoot an unarmed man 50 times and the get no jail time? A dog is worth more than a black man in this country smh.

can someone look and find out if the murdered individual was in a car and driving towards police officers?

if i drive towards police officers, i’d expect to get shot at. and the closer i was to hitting them, the more bullets i would expect.

im so fucking pissed off..this is some FUCKING BULLSHIT!this brought tears to my eyes,i remember when this first happened and i just knew they were going to ROT IN JAIL…but these racist motherfuckers got away with it….

somebody already mentioned this but HOW THE HELL THEY GIVE MICHAEL VICK TIME FOR SOME BULLSHIT ASS DOGS?im pissed

It is awful what happened. With society as it is today where every corner has a shooting at least once a week it seems, these officers and others are bound to react to someone reaching for their pocket. I can’t see how it can be “racist” when two of the officers are themselves black. It was certainly a bad area they were in. I surely don’t think it was intentional to just shoot a black man when like I said they were themselves black.

It seems to me that racism is kept alive by the black race. after all they have NAACP, Ms. black america, black FOP, and on and on and on. Yet let a white person try that…..oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo noooooooooooooooo! come on give it up. This is 2008 and everyone has an equal chance to do and be whatever they want to do or be. If as much effort was put forth to become something as it is to preserve racism we’d all be better off.

@ #209
That is how I felt. When I read that they were acquitted, I thought I had the meaning of the word all wrong all along. So I opened the dictionary to look. I am not trying to be funny. I am dead serious!

I’m sad. But remember this, even though justice has not been given by humans, it will be seen to by God.

PostScript: HAVINAFIT it is not possible for the black male to go instinct. that in my opinion is extreme nonsense since there are millions of black male populating this earth. In Africa, here in the States, in Europe and so on and so forth.

yess i was sooo pissed when i saw this on tru tv this morning ..ugh

POLICE NEED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE!! THE LAW IS DESIGNED TO SAVE THE WHITES! THE BLACK OFFICERS WHO SHOT FIRST ARE A PRIME EXAMPLE OF BLACKS FEELING A NEED TO BE EXCEPTED BY THE WHITE MAN! NO ONE LIKE TO HEAR THAT PHRASE BUT IT TRUE AS HELL! LOOK, YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A WHITE OFFICER BEATING OR SHOOTING A WHITE MAN OR FEMALE BY ACCIDENT! THEY ARE SO PASSIVE AND LEANIENT ON THEIR PEOPLE BUT BLACKS ARE LIKE STUPID HOUSE NIGGAZ TRYING TO BE EXCEPTED. YOU GUYS WILL NEVER BE EXCEPTED FULLY. I HOPE THIS HAUNTS THEM FOREVER. IT WAS SO UNCALLED FOR, THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A GUN-HOE TRIGGA HAPPY DETECTIVE WHO THINKS THEIR ABOVE THE LAW! IT WAS OVER KILL FOR NO REASON!! NO WEAPONS FOUND SO LIKE ALWAYS, ALL THE WHITES COME TOGETHER TO HANG THE NIGGAZ! NO MATTER HOW MANY THINGS THEY DIG UP ON MR. BELL HE WAS UNARMED! HE COULDN’T DRIVE THE CAR AND HOLD A GUN! THIS IS A GOT DAMN SHAME AND THE BLACKS BETTER WAKE THE HELL UP AND START HAVING EACH OTHER BACKS LIKE THE WHITES HAVE EACH OTHERS BACK! STOP GOING AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE TO GAIN THE RESPECT OF THESE RACIST WHITES WHO WANT TO SEE US KILL EACH OTHER OFF! THIS INCIDENT SHOULD NEVER HAD HAPPENED NOT TO MENTION THE COPS GETTING AQUITTED FOR THEIR WRECKLESS BEHAVIOR! TRUST AND BELIEVE IF THOSE WERE WHITE BOYS AND ONE GOT SHOT A FEW HOURS BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE, THE WHITES WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT SO UNLAWFUL AND THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND THOSE BLACK HOUSE NIGGA COPS GUILTY, THEY WOULD HAVE TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THEM AND LET THEM GET HUNG! DON’T YOU UNCLE TOM ASS NIGGAZ GET IT, THEY WILL NEVER EXCEPT A NIGGA! I AM SO ASHAMED OF THOSE BLACK OFFICERS. THEY WERE WRONG, IT WAS OVER KILL AND NO WEAPONS WAS FOUND WHAT THE HECK DOES IT TAKE FOR A BLACK MAN TO GET JUSTICE. COME ON, BLACK PEOPLE YALL BETTER GET IT TOGETHER AND START SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND STOP PULLING EACH OTHER DOWN. STOP BEING SO HATEFUL AND LARSONHEARTED, WANNA BE’S! LEARN HOW TO LOVE YOURSELF AND YOUR PEOPLE! I’M SO ASHAMED AT HOW THE BLACKS IN THE WORLD HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE! MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD BE SO DISAPPOINTED IN HIS PEOPLE!

that just shows how the legal system is how you shot somebody 50 f***ing times and not be guilty thats just messed up

ans someone made a GREAT point wesley gets 3 yrs for taxes and ish. but dese niggas dont get ne thing …wth !? justice was NOT served !!!! i cant believe this . in the 90’s ma cousin got shot 15 times by cops [for no reason]..he didnt die but hes paralyzed and the cops were not found guilty either

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!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEE UUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPP! ALSO NOT FOR NOTHING THIS STORY WILL BE OVER AND WE* AS A PEOPLE WE FORGET AND GO BACK TO OUR DAILY LIVES, CLUB ON FRI IN NY, SHOPPING WITH THE REBATE CHECKS COMING NEXT WEEK, GETTIN OUR HAIR & NAILS DID.. TO GO OUT WITH THAT BUM ASS DUDE FROM THE BLOCK THAT YO GIRL GEE GEE TLD U WAS CUTE CAUSE HE GOT LONG PAPER. I MEAN IM TIRED OF PEOPLE COMPLAING AND ONLY A FEW OF US ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING.

EITEHER WE WAKE THE HELL UP OR SHUT THE HELL UP. WHATS NEXT GUYS ? WAT DA FCK IS NEXT LETS DO SOMETHING!!! AND PLEASE PRAY FOR MS BELL SHE IS IN DIRE NEED NOW. GOD BLESS HER.
BUT PEOPLE IM SERIOUS AND WHOMEVER IS WIT ME HOLLA BACK AND ILL GIVE U MY EMAIL LETS TRY AND MAKE CHANGES CAUSE OUR COUNTRY IS SUFFERING THESE THINGS DONT HELP!!!! IM SERIOUS

im crying right now, i dont believe this shit, i just dont believe it

Those cops better pray that God finds forgiveness in his heart for them. They better hope that their own bodies don’t end up in a NY river somewhere…

My heart goes out to the fiancee and the family..
it’s hard enough to find good black love as it is. God bless you and don’t give up the fight, whatever you do! You are in our prayers!

#260
I checked out that site. It’s despicable. Many of the comments on there by those in law enforcement were just sick. I live in NYC and I see so many arrogant officers who abuse their authority. I’m interested to know what your thoughts are on how we as a community can come together. I protested with Charles Barron, other community leaders, organizations, etc. showed solidarity with the Bell family at vigils and I’m so sick and tired of what’s going on. I’m just really sick and tired of all these injustices. I’m interested in seeing us move to a place of dialogue on what we can do.

Why does it seem the legal system is setup to help criminals. I can say I feel her pain, and it is just sad. Those kids don’t have a daddy cause some cops was a lil trigger happy. Damn when will this racist shit end!

#301
I am with you

First of all as many are, I am so outraged and saddened by this absurd verdict!

Second of all —–For people who think that just because 1 or two of the officers were Black themselves that this does not mean that racism has anything do with this case, they really need to think again. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing happening to a white man? I don’t think so. Also throughout history, black people have been conditioned against one another. Many Black people harbor the same prejudices and hatred towards their own people as their White counterparts. So People Please Please Wake Up! If you have not heard of the colonized mind or the about the psychological impact of centuries of racism, slavery and colonization on Black people, please read Franz Fanon! As many have said we Black people need to band and stick together!

Black men are particularly targeted by the police and everyone who is Black KNOWS THIS!!! I go to school in Wellesley, MA, which is a rich suburb outside of Boston. While with my man, we have been stopped more than a couple of times. The police officers have often demanded to know what we ( as Black people) were doing in the town. One time I even had to show my college id to the officer to prove that I went to Wellesley! Now tell me why was this even necessary?So yes people wake up racism is alive and well. Black people are the most devalued people on the face of the earth.

My prayers go out to Sean Bell, his fiancee and his beautiful family. May God continue to help you find strength during these difficult times. We are all praying for you. Be Strong!

CORRUPT COPS KILL BLACK PEOPLE! CORRUPT BLACK PEOPLE KILL BLACK PEOPLE! ALMOST EVERYBODY IN ALL BLACK COMMUNITIES HAVE LOST SOMEBODY KILLED BY ANOTHER BLACK PERSON! THIS HAPPENS DAILY! IF I STAY STRAPPED, REP MY HOOD AND MY SET, AND IF I AT THE DROP OF A DIME AM WILL TO BLAST ON A NIGGA IN MY OWN HOOD WHERE MY MOTHER, GRAND PARENTS, FATHER, AND MY KIDS LIVE ITS OK CUZ I’M KEEPING IT REAL. I’M KEEPING IN HOOD! FOR EVERYONE THAT READS THIS AND U LIVE IN A SO CALLED HOOD AND U A REAL NIGGA, GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK AROUND AND ASK YOURSELF HOW MUCH HAVE YOU ADDED TO DESTRUCTION OF YOUR HOOD. HOW MANY TIMES DO U HEAR “SHOUT OUT TO MY NIGGAZ IN THE PEN HOLDING IT DOWN”? NIGGAZ LOCKED UP FOR SELLIN DOPE, ROBBERY, KILLING ALL IN OUR HOODS. AIN’T NOBODY SAYIN ” SHOUTOUT TO MY NIGGAZ IN COLLEGE”, SHOUTOUT TO MY NIGGAZ IN THE HOOD THAT DON’T PARTICIPANT IN THE “KEEPIN IT REAL” FALSE HOOD! IF WE LOVE OUR HOODS SO MUCH WHY IS THE MAIN PLAN TO GET OUT IS TO SELL WEIGHT THEN MOVE TO ALL WHITE COMMUNITIES AND SAY WE MADE IT. NIGGAZ HAVE KILLED MORE SEAN BELL’S THAN THE NYPD! SHOUTOUT TO MY NIGGAZ IN THE PEN FOR KILLIN OTHER NIGGAZ LIKE THE NYPD! SHOUTOUT TO MY NIGGAZ KEEPIN IT REAL HOOD AND STAY BUSTIN THEY GUNS AT BITCH ASS NIGGAZ! SHOUTOUT TO THE NYPD FOR HOLDING THEY SET DOWN!…………WE HAVE TO WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I am saying, let that be an Hasidic Jew or some other ethnic group or race. Every road in NYC would have been blocked and riots would have consumed the city. But unfortunately, Black people have this tendency of “as long as it’s not me or my loved ones” why should I give a damn?

Black men in all the urban areas in and around the USA need to wake up a realize that it’s open season. We need to mobilze and let our voices be heard, do what ever it takes, by any means necessary. If that means rioting and burning a couple buildings then so fucking be it. There is nothing wrong with that. Riots are good because, riots are the voices of the unheard! But until we stand up and fight for what’s right - our basic human rights that should be equally gauranteed to all, without regards race. Until that day, Black men, our dreams of equal rights will be nothing but a fleeting illusion, to be persued but never attained.

It’s sad, but dang if I didn’t already know what the verdict was going to be. I always know whenever stuff like this happens that the outcome will always be the same. Remember, they caught officers on tape beating the sh*t out of Rodney King and they still got out of it. What more proof did they need when that happened.

I WAS FOLLOWING THIS AS SOON AS I WAS UP IN THE MORNING WAITING FOR THE VERDICT AND WHEN I READ IT AT WORK I DIDN’T EVEN ALLOW IT TO PROCESS…BUT NOW I’M READING ABOUT THIS IN DETAIL AND SEE THE REACTION HERE, MY HEART IS FEELING REAL HEAVY…

I’M LISTENING TO ERYKAH BADU’S “A.D. 2000″ AND IT MAKES ME THINK LET’S NOT GIVE SEAN BELL A BROKEN BUILDING, LET’S BE VIGILANT IN OUR OWN HEARTS SO THIS WILL NOT GO DOWN QUIETLY. IF THAT MEANS TO START A SEAN BELL FUND, OR START A WATCH DOG PROGRAM IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO MONITOR CROOKED COP PROCEDURES OR START A MENTORSHIP FOR YOUTH, OR ORGANIZE A MARCH, OR WRITE YOUR LOCAL POLITICIAN, ETC. BASICALLY LET’S NOT JUST ALLOW THE MEMORY OF SEAN BELL BE REDUCED TO JUST A MURAL ON A 3RD RATE WALL. LET’S NOT LET SATAN POISON OUR HEARTS WITH WRATH, WE CAN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS IN OUR ON WAYS.

GOD BE WITH THE BELL FAMILY AND THE MASSES EFFECTED BY THIS.

so so sad!

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!!!!!!!!

For the young brothas in that(16-26)age group,the power that runs this country ,fears you more than China,Russia,North Korea,and the Middle-East,combined.This age group is the true power of our race.Picture if you will an army of 1million modern day versions of Crispus Attucks,ready,willing,and able to respond to HUMAN INJUSTICE with violence,it could change the world!Brotha Attucks was also an unarmed BLACKMAN who was partying, when he sparked a revolution.The British Army viewed our oppressor as the dirt under their shoe,and a run-a-way slave freed a SUPERPOWER.I have read the comments of those who say that this young brotha was a drug dealer,that the neighborhood and strip-club warranted a strong police presence,and that he got what was coming to him.I had to sit back,and think on that a taste,and apart of me says,why DID the brotha pick an area so hot to party,and I always think in my mind BECAUSE HE EFFING WANTED TO.The last time I checked this is still America,a place were anybody coming out of a bar/club can walk to their car and not get cut to pieces in a hail of police bullets.WHITE AMERICA is scared sh–less of young brothas in a group,I don’t care if it is a group of THUGS or MBA’s it’s the same thing in the mindset of white people,and it is reflective their judicial system,and what happened to him can happen to any man of color or class.A BLACKMAN’S HUMANBEINGNESS(it may not be the correct word )gets taken away 85% of the time we get pulled over by the police.The white,black,brown,red,yellow,BOYS IN BLUE come out of their cars, with guns at the ready.This is known by all in the Black Community,DID THESE BROTHAS HAVE SOMETHING ON THE COPS?There is more to this story than is being told,it does not make sense, for three unarmed men to engage in conflict, with armed men representing the law…Young brothas in New York city it is my hope that you will keep your cool in the coming days and weeks,and don’t give them a reason to take more of you away from the ones you love,however,I hope that some of you young brothas are so mad,that you go to LAW SCHOOL to use/rewrite laws to ensure that NO MAN will endure 100% of his HUMANBEINGNESS taken away from him the way it was for SEAN BELL.GOD IS WITH YOU NOW!R.I.P BROTHA!

this is absolutely ridiculous…..how can a man get shot 50 times n the ppl involved gets away wif it?????????whats the world turning into?????probably if sean was white the case would have been diff….seriously i am black bt i dnt like whites.am nt a racist bt seen n heard many fins happen to blacks n whites get away wif it….tell me how am i suppose to like someone who doesnt like me(an eye for an eye)OMG pls b wif sean’s family its now they need u most….

“A slap in the face and a kick in the ass.!”

I think this is really sad… I thought London was bad for the injustices that are caused against black people but this time the US have really ‘outshone’ themselves… I am sorry for the family of this man it is really unfair and my thoughts are with the family at this time xx

People keep saying “black cops black cops” but may i point out that only one was black one was spanish and one was white

the white one was the one to shoot 31 times

hes the one that reloaded and went at it again

the spanish one shot 4 times

and the black one shot once and he shot at the airtran terminal not sean bell

and guess what he was the only one to issue a public apology when they all had the opportunity to do so

wow!!!

THIS ADDRESS TO TABBY, COMMENT #131 OR WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT TO CALL YOURSELF…………
HOW IN THE HELL COULD YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO SPEAK THE WORDS
YOU SAID ABOUT THOSE YOUNG MEN. AND FOR YOUR INFO IF YOU WATCH
BET YOU KNOW THEY WERE NOT THUGS!!!! THIS MAN HAD STEP UP AND SAID HE WAS GONNA DO WHAT HE HAD TO DO TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY SO HE DECIDED TO PLAY BALL. NOW DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A DAMN THUG, I THINK NOT!!! BLACK MAN OR NOT……..NO ONE DESERVES TO BE SHOT AT THAT MANY TIMES AND DIDNT EVEN HAVE A GUN AND DIDNT EVEN DO ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH AND ONE OF THE GUYS TOOK 16 SHOTS LUCKILY HES STILL ALIVE BUT HIS BEST FRIEND ISNT AND THEN THESE SORRY ASS COPS GET OFF FOR DOING IT!!! AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED TO AN INNOCENT YOUNG BLACK MALE IN NYC, SO DONT DARE SAY THE THINGS YOU SAID THAT IS WRONG!!!
WHAT IF IT WAS YOUR BROTHER OR UNCLE OR COUSIN HOW IN THE HELL WOULD YOU FEEL. I KNOW THAT MOUTH OF YOURS WOULD SAY OTHERWISE!!!! YOU NEED TO BE BANNED FROM CL!!!!!!

That really is not right. My heart goes out to the family. I guess some things just never change.

@Skittles25

You should have watched larry king. The boy did not have a job. He was selling drugs “present tense” note dates of arrests. And he gave up baseball to take care of his baby’s mamma and child like all lost souls he thought that selling drugs was the way to do this. You should be mad you should be upset. You should be so mad that you start a neigborhood watch in your area to get rid of the crime and keep the police at bay. Police follow the crime. On the same note if you par take in that lifestyle you should be prepared for what happens. They thought he had a gun, he ramed a police van, thats enough for me. Lastly anyone who partake in this life aint cool with me. I say put Frank Lucus and Big Meech ass in jail and let them stay there . I dont believe 7-8 police never identified themselves. that sound suspect. Police are proud to be police. Even more so when they feel someone is below them. The judge in the case has handle cases like this and when the police asked for a bench trial the family nor the DA disagreed. This was a fair and just trial based on who was more creidable. and you are right there is more to this story then what either party has said. Where are the strippers that he had the fight with? There where more then the police and the 3 “thugs” in the club that night where they at. All those people could have testified but they didn’t. Why? The case is not a civil right case because I’m sure everybody in that club was black. the police was there for the crime not black people although its sad that the two terms are so closely related.
AND PLEASE STOP TRYING TO GET THESE YOUNG PEOPLE TO RIOT. THAT THE WAY TO GET SHOT

@ JA. Your statement is so ignorant it actually frightens me. It’s actually hard to believe that it is possible for someone to be that simple minded. You have:

- No understanding of the facts
- No understanding of police procedure
- No understanding of this case at all.

There’s no point in even schooling someone as ignorant as you. When an unarmed innocent man is shoot 50 times while not committing a crime and the police get to walk away free as a bird by just saying “sorry, it was an accident”, justice has not been served. I hope your not a black man, because if you can’t understand that what happened to Sean Bell can happen to you your crazy.

Now this is some real bullshit…. but Im not suprised. The entire system is corrupt, but this right here is crazy. how the hell can you shoot that many times and get off the hook. These cops officially have a license to kill. no ifs, ands, or buts about it. A word to all my black brothers don’t even look their way. Its a shame that we have came this far in time and shit still has not changed. At times it feels like the black society is doomed from the moment we walk out on the streets. There is no justice served when a young man is shot down and killed on his wedding day, leaving behind two beautiful daughters and a wife. Where the hell is the justice???

o and @ ja u are very very ignorant and its people with a mental like you that would let them m***fuckas walk off free with no charges……. an innocent man is dead. no one should care about his damn record it has nothing to do with that night.

I don’t know what saddens me more, the fact that Sean’s fiance and family aren’t receiving any justice or the fact that two of the three officers involved in this heinous shooting were actually black… What a shameful situation.

This is too sad for words. I thought cops were taught to shoot to injure enough to protect themselves, not shoot to f*ckin kill!!!! Since this case had enough evidence to go to trial I believe there is enough cause to have a civil suit. I HOPE they SUE the f*ckin pants and underwear off those cops and the NYPD!!!!!!!!!! Nicole cannot have her fiance back but at least if she sues she can provide for her family for the rest of her life. These cops took her future husband away from her and its a shame. F*CK THE POLICE!

wow i am very disappointed and angered by the verdict….tghe family def should hit the city in the pockets for millions!!!!!! our people has to take a stance both against police brutality and the black on balck crime we will tolerate no more!!!!!!

why be shocked?? cops can kill whom ever they want a not pay a price. even black cops can kill black people and get away with it. as long as your a cop no matter what race, you can shot someone 50 times and walk. this is just a sad cause of black on black crime. hell they shot amodou diello a whole bunch of times also and walked. from what i hear the black cop was the first to start busting on sean bell’s vehicle. killing a black person in america is nothing. it is the norm. america and other countries have no respect for black people. those foreignors had the nerve to kill three black college kids in newark ,nj. they had no respect for those black kids. so now it is just open season on black people.

I am so disgusted at the verdict, I am more deeply saddened and hurt for the family. It is now crystal clear that a black man could never get justice in Amerikkka. How the hell can that low life cop get off from firing over 30 shots? He had time to reload, but yet he was in fear of his life?

With all that being said, what are blacks going to do about all of this? We really need to come together and stop taking this shit. This is crazy, first Diallo with 41 shots now this? This is UNBELIEVABLE, I’m so hurt right now!

Horrible news! Can’t believe the prosecution dropped the ball with this one. Aren’t you supposed to rehearse witnesses??

this really sucks. God bless that family.
racism still exists. and justice is still faked in this country.

This is crazy

Justice……Yeah, right!!!!!!!…SMDH with tears in my eyes and an ache in my heart.

That’s crazy. 50 shots is excessive. They should have stopped shooting when they realized nobody was shooting back at them. But I can’t really say I am surprised. This is how America does us in the judicial system. It’s amazing because it seems like some people really don’t give a damn about a black life. However, Michael Vick gets 2 years in prison for the life of a dog. How is that justice?

First of all, we need to stop protesting, and rallying because black men, black women are still being murdered by these goon squads they call police officers! I say it is time to stop hanging on the corners, stop robbing, and killing one another, and really unite, and pull our resources together, so we can take care of ourselves, and not the city of new york. Lets bear arms, and protect our lives against the NYPD, because that judge gave all nypd cops the right to shoot to kill black people just because we look suspicous. When are we going to WAKE UP!! Rest in peace, not in vain SEAN BELL!

I said it yesterday - will say it again today. I don’t care if he was a career criminal. I don’t even care if he was actually committing a crime. I am not a law enforcement dickhead but I know that the proper protocol; the human protocol is to shoot to injure or disarm. I don’t care the race of anyone in this situation. The cops and Sean Bell. This is plain wrong. Yes it is true I feel bad for Nicole and his kids but they are not the only victims here. If SOCIETY opens their eyes- we should all be scared. This isn’t a group of people that killed Mr Bell. It is people that took a position to Protect and Serve. This aint a mechanic, the local pimp and a high school dropout. These are people of authority. There is no way to justify 50 shots. I am sure after the first 10 rounds everything was at a standstill except perhaps the innocent bystanders running for cover…which leads me to this question- Had a passerby (white maybe) got hit with a stray?

Things that make you say hmmm?

my biggest fear came true…chi town police are using M4s now. if other cities adopt the same method next time someone is shot by the police it could be 100 rounds fired…..when do we stop them from treating us like this?

M4s are the rifles u.s soldiers are using in iraq….this country is a war zone ALL BECUZ OF SURVIVAL!

A revolution needs to come. of this. We can’t sit back and do nothing.

i am with #338 Khadijah- it aint to be rebellious its to stand up and stop letting people treat us like inferiors!

I’m not going to call you anything, lol. You called yourself that so you must already know who and what you are. Don’t tell me that I don’t have a sense of the scriptures when all you people in the church do is quote the same two scriptures, out of context, (John 3:16) and the one you just quoted. I’m not going to get into another biblical debate because this is not the thread for that and you honestly don’t understand what you claim to profess. You’re obviously more concerned about caucasians than you are Sean Bell as you spent two weak sentences on that and a paragraph on myself. What I will say is that if you’re going to claim God and the scriptures, claim the entire Bible: from Gen 1:1-Rev 22:21. Don’t pull every scripture that has the word “love” in it and level it at me when there are a million and one scriptures that talk about the “terror” of the Lord, the “hate” and “jealousy” of the Lord, how the Lord is a man of “war”, and how he commanded the destruction of entire races. The Lord’s “love” is not the vain “love” that man alleges to have and that is the source of the tricknology and false teachings of the church. The “love of God” is to keep the commandments, not give every one a damn hug and lower your head to the chopping block over and over again (John 14:15, I John 5:3, etc.). The Lord’s Word tells you that when Christ comes back, not only will he put the other races into hardcore slavery for their crimes against the Lord’s people, the Israelites, but that He and the angels will kill so many people that the blood will come up to the bridles of their horses. Either you believe or you don’t but don’t allege that I have no “sense” when you have no knowledge.

Unless you can tell me who “white people” are known as in the Bible, who “black people” are known as in the Bible, “Chinese”, “Japanese”, etc. we cannot have a conversation because we’d be speaking two different languages. There are no terms like “African”, “Japanese”, or “Chinese” in the Bible so either you’re simple enough to believe that those people didn’t exist back then or you have the understanding that they were known by their biblical names at the time. The Bible is a historical book, not an emotional one, and to serve God you must love the truth in context with the history, not you’re opinion. I honestly don’t believe that you or 99% of people that claim to believe in the God of the Bible or the Bible itself actually believe in it at all because you get so quickly offended by what it says (Matt 11:6, Matt 24:10). My beliefs are based on knowledge, not emotion. This is why the church is the first thing that is built, other than a liquor store, in the black community because it is used to destroy the minds of the people, you being one of them. So you mean to tell me that God controls all and loves all, but he allows the rampant confusion, self-hatred, and virtual genocide of one race of people at the hands of all others and especially one, the so-called white man? That makes no sense because your church doctrine makes no sense. Our people have perverted the message of the scriptures because their minds are perverted. You love lies and in doing so you have taken away all hope from the young black male. He is now left to hate himself because he has no power against this system or his oppressors. This is why the coon negro MUST have the same fate as the oppressors. They are accessories to the destruction of the Lord’s Chosen and must be destroyed. You think “that’s so sad” is enough for a person that had their son, husband, or father shot at 50 times?

That’s at # 292

I am absolutely outraged at this verdict. I mean really how do u justifiy shooting someone that many damn times? Its amazing how they can give Wesley 3 years, Vick in jail, arrested Tip at the damn Walgreens for just possessing some damn guns, but these dudes receive a get out of jail free card for mudereing a man. Are we playing monopoly now? what kind of world are we living in? And I am more disgusted with the black officers who were involved. I have a feeling they were probably the ones shooting the most. It amazes me how niggas put on a uniform and just abuse the shit out of their power. My prayers go out to the families of everyone in this situation.

OK COME ON NOW LEADERS THIS IS SOME STRAIGHT UP BULL SHIT. WE NEED TO STAND BEHIND AL SHARPTON, JESSIE JACKSON, REV WRIGHT, FARAKAN, BILL COSBY, OBAMA, TELL US WHAT THE HELL TO DO THIS WRONG THIS IS STRAIGHT UP BULL SHIT. WHOM EVER IS SUPPOSE TO BE LEADERS AND WANT US TO DO THE RIGHT THING NEED TO STAND UP ITS NOT ABOUT VOTING AT THIS POINT WE NEED JUSTICE AND NOW. HOW MANY CHEEKS CAN WE TURN. GET RID OF THAT SEVENTY YEAR OLD JUDGE CLEARLY HE IS SENILE. STAND UP BLACK MEN. IT COULD JUST AS EASILY BE YOU. BEFORE THIS IS ALL OVER WITH IT MAY BE YOU.

That is so sad. R.I.P Sean Bell.

@ TABBY . .

Because you’re a drug dealer, you deserve to get shot 50 times? I guess I learned something new today.

all i have 2 say is my man Ice Cube summed it up best when he said “This is just another of example of how the court system in America views another black life as worthless” cant get anymore realer!

R.I.P Sean! i hope u and ur fam recieve the justice u all so truly deserve! cause this is senseless!

What would Mr. X do,,, By Any Means Necessary,,,,

50 shots is overkill, but at the end of the day, I just wish Mr.Bell and his boys had decided to go bowling or to a movie on the night before his wedding.

@ Judah First off I am concerned about what had happen to Sean Bell. Hence my username (SMH@your ignorance) The only reason I didn’t write alot about the situation is because mostly everything that I wanted to say was already said……………. The only reason I commented on you because for the 3 months that i have been coming on this website, everytime you comment you are either, 1) saying something very racist, or, 2) Are constantly belittling someone. LOLOLOLOL You said your not getting into a bibical debate and yet that’s exactly what you did. I find it also interesting that you didn’t find a scripture that support your right to hate and talk viciously against a whole race of people. Also if you knew your history and geography you wouldn’t need for the bible to say wheter they’re Japanese (etc) Acts 8:27 talks about an Ethopian enunch. (Do you know what a enunch is BTW? ) anyways ethopia is in Africa menaing he was what African(BLACK). Job 1:3 says that Job is the greatest of all the Orientals. That could be Chinese, Japanes,Korean, (etc). The bible even says to have love and pray for your enemies.(Matt 5:44) But I guess that doesn’t apply to you right? You don’t go by truth you go by your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5) That’s why……………….You know what….. there’s really no need to continue this conversation. You are just one of those people who just won’t get it, until it hits right in the face and you won’t be able …….so you have a good night

……………..by the way, I don’t get that you say that 99% of us don’t know what we’re talking about right? So why do you come on this website? I mean really why? You act like you are more intelligent and more spiritually stronger than everyone on here (because you are part of the 1% that knows what you are talking about.) so this is just weird that you would waste your percious time on this website debating with people who will ultimately be destoryed. I really don’t get it…………now i’m done……for real LOLOLOL Good Night

the judge made a good decision. it wasnt intentional and they were just trying to do there job. it had nothing to do with race. its just that they were uncooperative and each party believed their life was endanger. also bell didn’t get shot 30 times or 50 thats just how many shots were fired. it happens real quick. it doesnt matter how many was fired its as many shots as it takes to stop the threat. there are criminals and killers that do this intentionally everyday, some cops made a mistake and your ready to put them in the same category’s as murderers. i wish people would grow up and look at things outside the box and not be so ignorant.

#350 You are the ignorant one, your racist views are not welcomed here. The fact is this had EVERYTHING TO DO WITH RACE!!! You do not hear this happening to young white men. This was a murder, plain and simple. There was no treat to these low life cops, none THEY DID NOT HAVE A GUN. They were not uncooperative because they never identified themselves as cops. These drunk cops were negligent and went on a shooting spree. They were shooting to kill that’s the reason why so many shots were fired, luckily 2 survived. I don’t give a damn, how fast it takes to empty a magazine. The fact that that klan cop had time to reload clearly proves that there was NO THREAT!!!! NONE. THIS WAS A MURDER, SO STOP TRYING TO JUSTIFY IT!

My heart goes out to Sean Bell’s family this is a very bad situation and has affected a whole lot of people not to mention what the family is going thru, justice has to prevail. To Sean Bell’s wife, girl you got to be strong for your babies I can’t even imagine how you feel, but your children are going to need good energy from you to move on. Don’t know you at all, but just want to say I LOVE YOU.

@350 ARE YOU A COP?! IF SO GET YOUR TRIFFLIN BEHIND OUT OF HERE!!
ONLY DUMB A COP WHO HAVE KILLED AN INNOCENT MAN BEFORE WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING SO STUPID. 50 SHOTS IS RIDICULOUS AND YOU KNOW IT !!! HE DID GET SHOT 50 TIMES, SO QUIT TALKING ABOUT THINGS YOU OBVISOUSLY DON’T KNOW ABOUT. LAST TIME I CHECKED IT ONLY TAKE ONE SHOT TO GET THE JOB DONE. HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY FEEL THREATEN AFTER THE 3 SHOTS? HE WAS ALREADY DEAD, THEY WERE JUST TRIGGER HAPPY. YOU MAKING EXCUSES FOR THEM IS SO DISTURBING!
LET’S SEE WILL YOU BE FEELING THE SAME WAY IF IT WAS YOU! AND YES THIS A RACE THING, BECAUSE WOULD HAVE GIVEN A DIFFERENT VERDICT IF HE WAS WHITE! PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! WE DON’T WANT OR NEED YOU HERE!

@350 shut up jackass they are murderers, only you are the ignorant one.
there has been policeman who have been doing this for over 20 years and never used a weapon. they are to be to not to make mistakes when they’re lives at hands. you big dummy

“To Serve and Protect” my azz…more like “To Murder and Persecute”

The devil is a lie…..

@good decision by judge/

You said. That is the most common sense post here. you hae unbiasist eyes

First of all Thank you Cookie for telling #321 JA what he/she needed to hear!!!
50 Shots is to damn much, 1 of the officers alone shot 31 shots he had to stop and
reload is F**$#ing gun to shoot some damn more, no at what point do you realize
nobody is shooting back at you!!!!
As for TABBY…….you talking about I must didnt watch LARRY KING, NO I didnt
watch no DAMN LARRY KING……..INSTEAD I WATCHED B.E.T. where the victim
Sean Bell’s best friend was interviewed…….And he said out his own mouth that SEAN decided that HE HAD TO PLAY BALL TO TAKE CARE OF HIS FAMILY, NOW DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A DAMN THUG TO YOU…….IF SO IT MUST BE A NEW KING OF THUG………..and “IF” and I say that lightly “IF”…..HE WAS A DRUG DEALER (WHICH I AM NOT SAYING HE WAS)….IF HE WAS HE STILL DIDNT DESERVE TO GET SHOT 50 HOT DAMN TIMES. AND ONE OF HIS BEST FRIENDS TOOK 16 SHOTS AND THAT CAME OUT THE HORSES MOUTH DURING HIS INTERVIEW ON B.E.T. AND THAT DUDE SAID HE’D TOOK MORE JUST TO SEE HIS BEST FRIEND GET UP AND WALK AWAY TO HIS FAMILY. SO I GUESS YOU SAYING HE AND HIS FRIENDS DESERVE IT…..WHAT THE F*%K EVER!!!!!!! NO BODY DESERVES TO DIE LIKE THAT, NOBODY!!!!
LET THAT HAD BEEN ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMEBERS OR SOMEONE YOU WERE CLOSE TO, HOW WOULD YOUR ASS FEEL???????????UGH, CANT HEAR………HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF IT WERE YOU OR SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU????? ITS NOT RIGHT, ITS NOT FAIR!!!!!!! ITS A DAMN SHAME!!!!! AND I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE FAMILY AND HOPE ONE DAY THAT GET JUSTICE LEGALLY THRU A JUDGE AND COURT SYSTEM THAT AINT CORRUPT!!!! AND ANYWAY THE DAMN OFFICERS HAD BEEN DRINKING THAT NIGHT, AND THAT DID ACCOUNT FOR ANYTHING, IM NOT UNDERSTANDING!!!! TRUST WHO, TRUST WHAT KIND OF SYSTEM, NOT ONE!!! THIS IS JUST A SHAME AND THESE SICK COMMENTS PEOPLE ARE MAKING SAYING HE WAS THIS AND HE WAS THAT……..SO…..AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW………AND IF HE WAS
50 DAMN SHOTS IS STILL OVER KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trigger happy coppers go wild on un armed victim! Again, and again!!! You see we have our share of “wyatt earp” ravenous dogs who serve a fucking police state!!!! Yeah Canada has this horror put on innocent citizens by homicidal (state sponsored executioners in my opinion!) coppers too. In quebec two innocent contract construction workers asleep in their motel room were shot to bloody shreds in their beds by the Quebec Surrette(kind of state troopers), armed with automatic weapons. The workers of course like the poor gentleman shot by those coppers in N.Y.C.. were unarmed no weapons of any kind were discovered. Just like in the case of the victim in N.Y.C. the pigs opened up without warning, this tells me just like in Quebec, these coppers were cocked(safties off selector switch on full auto, weapon at the ready), to start shooting …….DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN?!!!!??? THAT DENOTES THAT THEY WERE READY TO FIRE!!!! TO ME …(in my opinion…) THIS SMACKS OF AMBUSH, TACTICS FIRE FIRST( says predisposed to “see a weapon” PUT EVERYONE DOWN,CONTROL THE FIELD OF FIRE…. typical paramilitary training with a twist of overkill!! There was an incident at Ipperwash where an unarmed protester was shot to death by O.P.P . paramilitary swat type unit.again overkill with a PREDISPOSITION TO”SEE” A WEAPON SO FIRE FIRST!!!! WHAT A TERRIBLE LOSS FOR THIS YOUNG BRIDE TO BE. MY MOST HEARTFELT SYMPATHY FOR YOUR LOSS AND THIS YOUNG MANS FAMILY LOSING A SON TO THIS OBVIOUS OUTRAGE. I TRULY HOPE THAT THROUGH THE CIVIL SUIT THE TRUTH IS SHOWN AND THE MISCREANTS ARE HELD UP TO THE LIGHT OF VERACITY WHICH WILL ILLUMINATE THE SHORTCOMINGS IN SUCH A LOOSE SHOOTING POLICY OF THE COPPERS.

The whole situation is unfair. There’s no way the cops should have been aquitted of the charges. & someone had the audacity to call up the fiancee’s house and laugh at them. Here’s the link:

http://www.nypost.com/sev...probing_taunts_108298.htm

what is this country coming to…

The NY Post just reported that after the verdict Nicole and her father recieved a phone call at their home during which the caller laughed at them and hung up–the call was traced to the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a NY police union. They had just returned from the verdict and visiting Sean Bell’s grave site when they recieved the call.

Throughout this country’s history people of color (and other non-wealthywhitemales) have been publicly and privately abused, and that abuse is very often sanctioned or covered up by the government. Now, tragically, this innocent young man’s life was taken by a barrage of NYPD bullets. The men who shot at him 50 times have been released without punishment by the courts of America.

For a long time, I have been keenly aware of the racism that exists in our public and private institutions, especially the criminal justice system. Particularly due to my involvement in the recent incident, I have paid special attention to how the media reports on this story.

I found it curious that on CNN Crime, at the very bottom is a list of “usual suspects.” The linked photos include a child rapist and murderer, as well as the former police officer suspected of murdering at least two of his former wives. Among the four photos was also a photo of Sean Bell. Why is this young man’s photo displayed among a group of suspected criminals? Sean Bell’s photo has been listed under “Usual Suspects” on CNN Crime for several months now…

The media has blatantly blanketed this case in racist/elitist propaganda, describing the crime scene as a “seedy stripclub.” The worst is the intentional degradation of this young man’s character and the character of the other victims. The way he chose to have a private celebration with his friends, during which he at no time became violent, should be irrelevant! But, that has obviously impacted many peoples feelings about this man.

The media owes this man’s family an apology. But, unfortunately, I know full well that in today’s world, an apology is not an acknowledgment of guilt and decision to do better, but a corporate compromise to silence opposition. Apologies won’t change these people’s minds.

Furthermore, I fully realize the legal burden of proof required in this case, and also acknowledge the fact that the Bell family will probably (hopefully) get a large civil settlement and receive at least some type o retribution and acknowledgment of guilt. However:

The fraction of the amount of money spent to silence the dissent against racism pales in comparison to the exorbitant revenue gained by oppressing minorities!!!”

The words used in American public and private discourse to describe persons of “minority” cultures have a deep meaning about how America truly feels about diversity and acceptance.

All these issues that my opponents say are used as “race bait” are, in fact, roots/branches of the same rotten tree.

Sean Bell’s murder and the acquittal of those men who brutally and ruthlessly shot an unarmed man are evidence of how America truly feels about us. The situation is dire and the time is now.

God bless the soul of Sean Bell. May his death be a call to action to us all.

It’s going to take 50 bullets to stop me from telling the TRUTH about racism and elitism in America. We are at war, but our ammunition is education and organization!

Throughout this country’s history all non-wealthywhitemales have been publicly and privately abused, and that abuse is very often sanctioned or covered up by the government. Now, tragically, this innocent young man’s life was taken by a barrage of NYPD bullets. The men who shot at him 50 times have been released without punishment by the courts of America.

ANYONE NOTICE? On CNN Crime, at the very bottom is a list of “usual suspects.” The linked photos include a child rapist and murderer, as well as the former police officer suspected of murdering at least two of his former wives. Among the four photos was also a photo of Sean Bell. Why is this young man’s photo displayed among a group of suspected criminals? Sean Bell’s photo has been listed under “Usual Suspects” on CNN Crime for several months now…

The media has blatantly blanketed this case in racist/elitist propaganda and that has obviously impacted many peoples feelings about this case.

Yes, the Bell family will probably (hopefully) get a large civil settlement and receive at least some type o retribution and acknowledgment of guilt. However:

The insignificant amount spent to silence the dissent against racism does not compare to the revenue gained by oppressing minorities!!!”

God bless the soul of Sean Bell. May his death be a call to action to us all.

It’s going to take 50 bullets to stop me from telling the TRUTH about racism and elitism in America. We are at war, but our ammunition is education and organization!

If we only stand up when someone dies, we’re all stuck trying to change things too late…

Bless up,
Beth

This is so messed up…R.I.P Sean Bell

@350 shut ur ass up…… u sound like one of them effin pigs talkin crazy like that. bottom line is all them shots were excessive. Those cops were under the influence and killed an innocent man dont u get it!!!!!!!!!!!! not to mention the other 2 that were injured. Dont come to the hood talkin that shit or u might get got now try that for ignorance

People are saying that this is not a race issue because there was a black cop (uncle tom) involved and that makes me extremely mad. Had it been a white man that got killed and some white people that got injured, you know those cops would have never been acquitted. Black celebrities are going to prison for small shit and when it comes to killing a black man, no one cares. Honestly, I hate bringing up race but this is some straight up racist shit. They do shit like that in Orlando, so FUCK the police. Lazy ass motherfuckers make everything worse.

@350 YOU GOTTA BE A COP TALKIN BOUT THEM “TRYING TO DO THEIR JOB”-TALK ABOUT B*THCAS*NESS

FOR YOU TO REALLY COME OFF LIKE THIS SH*T IS HUNKY DOORY, YOU MOST DEF MUST ME 1TIME, AND PROBABLY A ROOKIE AT THAT

YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT THE DOCUMENTARY “MEETING DAVID WILSON”

Why does it matter if he was shot 50 times instead of once?

Why does it matter if he was a drug peddler instead of a saint?

Why does it matter if he was a family man about to get married, instead of a bachelor?

As Judah said, Black people are too simple.

Whether is was by an array of bullets, by drug overdose, by gang warfare, by sexual deviances and HIV, or by the simple fact, HE was born to an unwed, single black mother…the black man has always faced extermination ( too ignorant to realize it…and too ill-equipped to do anything about it).

And for those who can see further than their noses understand, if the black male species is endangered, the same will become of the black woman.

Ignorance is SIN…and now I understand why.

i feel that the sean bell murder was horrible. this makes me think that there is no hope for us as african americans. i cant understand how you can kill a police and get life , but a polie kills someone else and gets aquitted it just does not seem right. how can we look up to police officers and not be scared if there hurting the innocent.
my prayers go out to the whole sean bell family.

That was a total miscourage of justice. i am certain that this evil judge and wicked prosecuter and these rouge cops are all in bed together. I pray that hte federal prosecuter pick this case up and give these three criminals what they truly deserve.

i live in brooklyn, ny and the streets are definitly in an uproar right now. I was outside on friday following the verdict and everyone’s blood was boiling. sad 2 say im not surprised, amadou was shot 41 times and he wasn’t leaving a strip club he was entering his own apartment and those officers got off as well!!!!!!!!!!!! black ppl we really need 2 get our shit together or else there will never be change. i’m only 18 but im pretty sure if this was back in the 60’s or 70’s all hell would be breaking loose! I’m not promoting a riot or anything but we cant just sit back quietly while they kill us. They already know what it is so they are not worried, we’ll all be angry for a while but in a few weeks all will be forgotten until another black man is murdered then we’ll pretend to care again.

i’ve been in brooklyn all my life and if a police officer is shot the whole city is put on a stand still. police and helicopters everywhere on the hunt searching especially knowing that the suspect is usually a black male. best believe when he is caught his as is getting life in prison and thats only because ny doesnt have the death penalty.

i know it probably sounds stupid but i kinda wish they were armed so at least they could have shot back at the officers. in my opinion they would have been better off shooting back at the officers and serving time because sean bell died for nothing.

this is really heartbreaking because as a child police officers and fire fighters are supposed to be your heroes but its not like that anymore. My friends and I try to avoid them at all costs.

AMERICA DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
and by the time we wake up and realize this it will be too late……im really on some marcus garvey back 2 africa ish rite now……..i now see y so many of my loved ones left the U.S. and are living happily in other countries.

@ JA

seriously dig a hole and bury yourself!!!!!!
so wat if he selled drugs in his PAST or if it wasn’t really his wedding day….ur bringing up irrelevant info like u r trying to justify what happened……point blank he was shot no once not twice but 50 TIMES and killed leaving behind 2 young children and a fiance…..he was not a saint but he was not a serial killer or rapist and did not deserve 2 die that way

This makes me so sick. I sat an cried about it. When young life is taken for no reason except for the color of his skin and the “stero types” and a trigger happy cop it hurts me. It also hurts to know that those cops are verdict “not guilty”. I just hope the cops and the judge enjoys their slow burn in hell for this. I hope those cops that shot him 50 times can’t sleep and can’t live with what they have done. I hope it eats away them until they shells of their former racist selves. If they can live with all that then they really deserve a special wing in hell just for them!!

With this verdict I am once again reminded that because I am BLACK I essentially have no rights. This man was celebrating his upcoming nuptials and was shot down in hail of bullets because he didn’t have the right complexion, which is what it all boils down to, for protection. Had he been a white man in Manhattan, New York he would have probably been escorted to his condo in the heart of the city and given a slap on the wrist. The NYPD is basically practicing genocide against our young black men, now more then ever we need to rally together and protest this injustice against not just civil rights but human rights.

i so agree with you on that one.

the police kill us for fun and get away with it all the time, we need to stand strong in this day in age, those cops will get whats coming to them….what goes around comes around

i think that the jugde coul dbe removed from the office. He sets bad bad for black people. when he found the three cops not giult the judge gives cops all rights to kill blacks. So cops know that they will get away with all black murders. If it was a white child they will never do what have ever done, but they will pay in time.

GOD DOES NOT LIKE UGLIEST!!!!!!
AND I WONDER HOW THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT AFTER DOING ALL OF THESE EVIL THINGS AND GET AWAY WITH IT, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST.

WE ARE ALL HUMAN GOD MADE EVERYONE SPECIAL
IF HE WANTED ALL BLACKS THEN HE WOULD OF MADE ALL BLACKS
AND SAME FOR WHITE. HE MADE EVERYONE HOW HE WANTED THEM.

HOW ARE WE TO THINK DIFFERENT!!!!!!

Now what? March, holla in a bullhorn, sing tired azz slave hyms? That’s the reason we are here! We need to make them respect or fear us, but stop killing us! N.Y shoul have been on fire!!! This message is saying to our kids that they are 2nd class citizens. You can send someone for fighting dogs, or tax evasion but killing a blackman carries no punishment. Fukk that!!! And to you monkey-minded house niccas, you can go down with them to!!! POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Almost forgot, F>U>C>K the POLICE!

sorry to say those cops better be on alert
someone might take 50 at them……
sad to say but true

Of course everyone in this hypocritical racist piece of shit country will sit back and watch the institutionalized extermination of America’s archenemy and greatest fear; the black male. What else is new?

Fcuk the white people who sit in comfortable silence and watch the propagation of their blood-drenched status quo.

Fcuk the the punk ass police.

Fcuk the USA.

Fcuk any black person who cares about this country more than the black family unit, black self respect, black empowerment, black sustenance, black love, and black unity.

>I still cry everytime I hear it, this shit is nutz!!!!!!! It makes me made the something can happen this drastic and nothing happen to those ass holes. The more I type the more I get madd. To the family stay-up the best way you can cuz I know its hard. Peace Y’all!!!!

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