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Not Guilty, Cops Walk In Sean Bell Killing
Money:
why all the uproar on this?
Elano:
--- Quote from: Jobology (take out a pad & pencil) on April 29, 2008, 11:19:35 AM ---this just goes to show how they think about us. they think we are savages and wild beast thats why they first reaction is to unload on us with out sparkin a convo. eye hope ya niggas wake the fuck up and see that THEY aint playin so we need to stop playing. and yea 2 of them niggas were Black but that dont mean shit. the system is a corrupt system created by these white devils. so once u become a cop you change too. and prolly start laughin at the racist joke they throw at your own race, like a slave. that shit would never happen if they were white. if they were white them cops would went about it in a whole different way. and this just added to my hatred for the white race. shits fuckin bullshit
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UH....YOU ARE HARD :o
dexter:
--- Quote from: Elano on April 26, 2008, 11:07:23 AM ---It's been a minute since I've blogged on this site, and those of you around during the infancy stages of DX blogging will recognize the screenname (note to all: I haven't gone anywhere, I just write under my government now: Anthony Springer, Jr.)
I can't recall the last time I shed a tear over too much of anything in the news, not 9/11, not Jena, Darfur. The Sean Bell verdict did what an act of terrorism and a genocide could not: move me to tears. My heart hurts for the Bell family, his wife, and the two daughters that will grow up without a father. But most of all, I hurt for everybody who's ever been killed or maimed at the hands of overzealous, cowardly and crooked officers.
To continue saying "fuck the police," at this point in time is counterproductive, and gets us nowhere. Sure, it makes us feel good (go on and say it now, you know you want to), but at the end of the day, we've wasted emotions and black and brown men everywhere will still be getting shot across the country and we'll be left feeling powerless to do anything about it.
My blogging brethren J. Burnett issued a call to action, and if that was the alley oop, I hope this post is the dunk that hits home with somebody out there in cyberspace.
Barack Obama commented on the verdict today, saying, "Well, look, obviously there was a tragedy in New York. I said at the time, without benefit of all the facts before me, that it looked like a possible case of excessive force. The judge has made his ruling, and we're a nation of laws, so we respect the verdict that came down."
I don't expect Obama to take a real controversial stance on the issue, and while his statement was, to say the least, disappointing, there's a gem in there that we need to heed.
In a nation of lawless police, we are a nation of laws, which means that we can't be content to march in the streets and we can't resort to random acts of violence against law enforcement. We need to lobby our elected officials to change our laws.
"Dollars and change," in the words of the late Johnnie Cochran.There's no amount of money that will bring Mr. Bell back, but if the people who fund the police are made to pay EVERY time some rogue cop acts a fool, the police may think twice before drawing a weapon. And we need to lobby for changes to the court system. Expecting the police to police themselves is ridiculous; expecting the local district attorney—who's success DEPENDS on a good working relationship with the police—is equally ridiculous. Cases involving police misconduct should be investigated, at worst, by an independent body and at best by the FBI or Justice Department.
The three officers in the Bell case were likely acquitted because they opted for a trial by judge instead of a jury. This needs to change as well. Trials involving police misconduct should be MANDATORY jury trials, in a venue close to the location of the incident in question.
Bullshit rolls down, real change is an uphill battle, who's willing to push the wagon for justice and equality? I seldom agree with Al Sharpton, but justice was aborted today. Let's not allow Mr. Bell's death to be in vain.
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Nat Turner-reincarnated:
--- Quote from: BigBDrugStores on April 29, 2008, 01:39:19 PM ---why all the uproar on this?
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typical cracker question. what you think the uproar is off nigga.
Nat Turner-reincarnated:
--- Quote from: Elano on April 29, 2008, 01:56:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jobology (take out a pad & pencil) on April 29, 2008, 11:19:35 AM ---this just goes to show how they think about us. they think we are savages and wild beast thats why they first reaction is to unload on us with out sparkin a convo. eye hope ya niggas wake the fuck up and see that THEY aint playin so we need to stop playing. and yea 2 of them niggas were Black but that dont mean shit. the system is a corrupt system created by these white devils. so once u become a cop you change too. and prolly start laughin at the racist joke they throw at your own race, like a slave. that shit would never happen if they were white. if they were white them cops would went about it in a whole different way. and this just added to my hatred for the white race. shits fuckin bullshit
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UH....YOU ARE HARD :o
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elano please shut the fuck up.....your cracker ass friends dont even like you on here
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