Comments on: NEW YORK CITY WEEPS

By: NC_NYer

NC_NYer — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:14:37 +0000

Like most of the other New Yorkers on this blog, I am not surprised, either. I called it in a discussion with some friends. I KNEW they were going to get off. From day 1, Bell and his associates were portrayed as criminals and thugs.

The white folks (in the comment sections of the articles) are saying what they always say - either ridiculing Al Sharpton, calling black folks crybabies, or making ignorant comments like, “How is the reduction in sales of cheetos and 40 oz beers going to shut the city down?” (in response to Al Sharpton’s call to demonstrate our displeasure with this ‘abortion of justice,’ as he called it).

50 is NOT a pinhead (I’m talking to you, Bill O’Reilly!). America IS NOT and WILL NOT be ready for a Black president. We can still see it in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and many other places. There continue to be white folks who simply DO NOT want a black man (ESPECIALLY SOME UPPITY, COLLEGE-EDUCATED NEGRO) in office telling them what to do (Obama’s biggest trouble spots are white, blue-collar, non-college-educated voters –> and Catholics, too).

Now I know people will say, “Oh, when will Black people stand up to this injustice!” and things of that nature. But here’s the other side of that: WHEN WILL BLACK FOLKS STOP TRYING TO ALL BE THUGS, HUSTLERS & GANGSTAS??!! You can go right on MySpace to see all the IDIOTS throwing up gang signs. Here are a couple of news flashes, kiddies: #1 - Being “gangsta” on MySpace is 100% NOT GANGSTA - at all. #2 Just because Young Jeezy makes records about selling “that white girl” - it doesn’t mean you can or should do that! #3 Going to jail is NOT cool (as explained above by post #54 - much of your life is cut off after being incarcerated!). Young people - that is only ENTERTAINMENT - NOT REALITY.

I give a F*** about “street cred.” I want a successful, prosperous life, not a “hood” or “ghetto” life. And no, I DON’T want a girl who dresses like the girl Diamond from Crime Mob….uhhhh NO.

By: mimi08

mimi08 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:08 +0000

50 shots is murder. You cannot justify shooting someone 50 times.

Forgive me lord, but this makes me want to go spray law enforcement. I gotta pray on this one. I feel helpless and vulnerable. I pray for peace for this family and all others effected by this.

To those law enforcements officer: You didn’t get away with anything cause the lord saw it. Karma is a ****, one of your family members might be murdered in the worst way, or even you. Justice sometimes comes outside of the courtroom, and not at the hand of the victims…..puzzled, think about it for a second. The greatest avenger and the one that demands justice is the lord.

I pray these officers don’t have another day of peace in their entire lives until they die. May the dead haunt them until they are no more. Darn shame they will be celebrating with their families tonight, while that young man is dead in his grave, killed when his life was just getting started.

By: Krysi - yes the same one

Krysi - yes the same one — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:56:54 +0000

This is what brings the worst out of people. They like to see us mad, they like to see us hurt, depressed, and on edge. This is the kind of outcome they all live for, because they are hoping that on this very day more lives of black people can be taken with or without reason. GENOCIDE, little by little, we took their ability to lynch and kill us without trial and jury so they found away to do it behind the security of the system. THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO, THERE IS NOBODY THAT CAN HELP, THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN CHANGE THIS. THis is what we have to accept. GOD has written the verdict, and he will be the only justice. I’m sorry my people but as long as we continue to live on this earth we have to accept that these people still have the right to keep us down, all we can do to fight back is keep our head up like we’ve done for centuries and continue to move forward. Think of all the Civil rights leaders who still haven’t seen justice, or justice wasn’t served until they were dead and buried or their murderers were old and half dead themselves, why should we expect anything more. This is more than painful…I don’t know about yall, but its giving me another type of feeling that i can’t even describe. That just lets me know that one day, all these evil MF taking our lives away from us, either with legal documents in the white house, with unexplained arrests, holding us back from education, holding us back from having the opportunities to vote Obama for president, holding us back from better job opportunities, killing us off and calling it justified keeping us in a F*cking BOX, weather its closed casket, or a limited way of life and progress….THE WILL ALL BURN RIGHTFULLY IN HELL…..one day. Thats one day we can look forward to.

By: Irene

Irene — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:38:23 +0000

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

By: crystal

crystal — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:25:31 +0000

I am not shocked of the outcome. Just like the Diallo case. It’s the American fuking way, when cops can kill you and not go to jail, and if you shoot a cop, then you get the death penalty. I am sure the decision of the verdict was made way before the Pope came to town.

when O.J. got acquitted, it was open season on everything the police can get any black man on. riding your bike on the curb, throwing garbage into the garbage can and missing it….ect..ect…

By: zyah0804

zyah0804 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:22:02 +0000

The sad thing was Sean Bell will go down in history (as far as white people are concerned) as a drug dealing thug that was killed by police because he was in a “seedy” part of town doing wrong and not as a VICTIM. I read some of the comments on other sites and was completely appalled. Some even went so far as to say that was a good way to clean the streets of NY. My opinion the clean up needs to start in DC at the White House and then to the capital of each and every city.

It’s just sad. But really is anyone surprised? Society shows us everyday one way or another how they really feel about us. Yes we cool to sell their tennis shoes and liquor and maybe even a select few can be the face of their products but at the end of the day we as a people hold no weight in this country. YOU STILL A N#$$er. What can we do? How can we do it?

I pray that the family of Sean Bell will find comfort, understanding and peace somehow …

By: aqtpie

aqtpie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:33:13 +0000

This is sooooo sad but I am not surprised.

By: NYCUTIE

NYCUTIE — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:21:13 +0000

I almost fell out of the shower this morning when I heard that they were acquitted. I pray for he families having to deal with this ordeal. Bet BELIEVE this is not over!!! Someone will pay for what thes aholes have done. The black cop involved shot the most rounds or almost as many. Black cops are just as bad as white cops. The black cop involved stopped the car to begin with. This is not the end of this case!

By: ladydiiaamond

ladydiiaamond — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:03:41 +0000

Only in America can the police violate their code of conduct, receive pay while on leave, be found not-guilty when they admit guilt, and walk away with a slap on the wrist.

Only in America can an unarmed Black man be gunned down in a hail of 50 bullets fired by 5 officers and the 5 officers feel vidicated although their stories matched the stories of the witnesses who took the stand yet the judge returns a “not guilty” verdict.

Only in America are we, the people of the darkest color in America, asked to “keep the peace” after in-justice.

he fathered two childre with the fiancee’ he left behind and he had every intent on making the mother of his children, his wife. This speaks volume in a society in which it’s not common for a man to make the mother of his children his wife and not just a woman standing in line with other women as ”baby mommas.” He was 23, and scheduled to be married the morning of his murder. The media says “gunned down”, but it was murder. Is it fair to say he shouldn’t have been where he was or should it be fairly stated, the police used excessive force against a Black man? How can this be racism when 3 of the 5 officers were minorities?

Well, as I was writing, three of the detectives found not guilty were doing “damage” control by holding news conference on CNN. They thanked their attorneys and the judge for making a fair and just decision. They thanked God and losely apologized to the Bell family for their loss. GUESS WHAT! SEAN AIN’T NEVER COMING BACK! This is why NWA wrote the song, “F*** the Police” because of things like this.
Now go RUN & TELL THAT!

By: TsC

TsC — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:20:08 +0000

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, **** 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 **** aside and stand together, because nobody else don’t give a **** about us.
Reminder:
Amadou Bailo Diallo
Patrick Moses Dorismond
Abner Louima
Timothy Stansbury, Jr.
Ramona Moore
Sean Bell…and counting