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Today, the Reverend Al Sharpton and and the Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke to the press, alongside family members and the fiancee of Sean Bell, who was killed during a Saturday morning police shooting. At a memorial near the club where the shooting occurred, Sharpton said, "We come this morning with the family in their hour of grief. We're all family now. Not a black family, not a white family, not a Latino family, a human family."
Jackson stated, "It's not about black or white. It's about wrong and right. This is a symbol, not an aberration. Our criminal justice system is broken on black America, on young black males." The AP noted that signs were hanging nearby that said "Death to Police Brutality and Murder" and "Off the Pigs Who Shoot Our Kids."
Mayor Bloomberg has been working hard in reaching out to Bell's family members and black community leaders. After meeting the family yesterday, he said, "I tried to express my deepest sympathies for their loss,. I don’t think that any parent can understand what it would be like to lose a child until it happens, and I just pray that for most of us parents, we never find out...There’s nothing the mayor can do to bring back their son or their fiancé." And the NY Times noted the Mayor's candid remarks about the community's feelings about the police, "There were people that stood up and said we’ve made a lot of progress and there were people that stood up and said we have a long ways to go. And I think both of those groups were right on target."
The Sun had an editorial today titled Bloomberg's Blunder, faulting his decision to turn to Sharpton and characterizing the shootings as "excessive." The Post's editorial also agreed, saying "Mayor Mike needs to hold his horses," given that the police "have an explicit right to use deadly force if they are in reasonable fear of their lives." Mayor Bloomberg has been in a tough position - trying to stake out a new ground in being receptive to community concerns while still keeping faith in his police department. How do you think he's doing?
And Bell's father William spoke to WABC 7 yesterday: "It don't matter to me what color the cops are ... my son is dead ... I don't want that to happen to no other kid, I don't care if they're black, white or whatever."
Photograph of Sharpton, flanked by Bell's fiance Nicole Paultrie (lower left) and Bell's mother Valerie Bell (lower right) with Jackson and the Reverend Hubert Daughtry (right) and Jackson (upper left) by Adam Rountree/AP
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Sharpton is a digusting media whore.
A message to all blacks, whites, hispanics and even chinks;
Try to purposely run-over a cop with your vehicle while acting as if you're carrying and YOU WILL GET SHOT.
A 3rd grader knows it and these aholes were old enough to know it too.
It's not the 50 shots that is the issue. It really isn't. This story would still be as big as it is if the cops shot the car 6 times (one shot per officer). The problem here is the media is making this a black white issue, as usual.
Just to recap:
2 black cops
2 hispanic cops
1 white cop
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, this is not 1 white cop and 3 black dudes is it? No it's not, but leave it to the media to single out the white guy as if he was the only one. Idiots!
lets have a race war to go with the religious war.
*lets have a race war to go with the religious war.*
but only if both sides are on drugs seized from the drug war.
"It don't matter to me what color the cops are " said the father. Yeah, it doesn't matter cause some of them were black but if they were all White then I bet you he would have a problem. Black people are more racist than white people.
Well, at least Kramer doesn't have to apologize for THIS one.
You know all black celebrities are giddy as hell now. They can probably kill at least 3 people each and get off via white guilt like OJ. You know Snoop's at home going "Finally can shoot that white gardener"
Again, has there been any white people shot 51 times while inside a car in this city?
"Again, has there been any white people shot 51 times while inside a car in this city?"
On which street?.
Your mother's.
now your answer again?
I was a bit surprised by Bloomberg's characterization of the shootings as "excessive." Maybe they were, but he really should wait for further investigations before reaching such a conclusion.
yeah, 51 shots is not excessive by any stretch of the imagination.
dispshit
yeah, 51 shots is not excessive by any stretch of the imagination.
dispshit
I agree with poster #2
The guy was asking for trouble in the first place. How could you try a run over a cop and be completely out of it thinking nothing was going to happen.
The police probably though their life was at danger seeing how this guy with a car was going to run them right over.
Sharpton and Jackson are not civil rights leaders.
They want to keep the African-Americans down, since that is how they get their power. Why do you think they go around fomenting racial hatred?
Well, they also both attention whores, but that is besides the point.
Jackson is an extortionist and Sharpton has a track record of lying and apparently has some sort of pact with James Brown about having the same hair which he admitted to on Jimmy Kimmell Live once.
Whoever wrote the post below, MIXIE?
Where did you get your education? Did you get it from K mart red light sale? Do you know these people you are speaking about or did the media give you all of your information?
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"Sharpton and Jackson are not civil rights leaders.
They want to keep the African-Americans down, since that is how they get their power. Why do you think they go around fomenting racial hatred?
Well, they also both attention whores, but that is besides the point.
Jackson is an extortionist and Sharpton has a track record of lying and apparently has some sort of pact with James Brown about having the same hair which he admitted to on Jimmy Kimmell Live once."
[16] Posted by: Mixie | November 29, 2006 10:53 PM
"Again, has there been any white people shot 51 times while inside a car in this city?"
Ok, if we're going to ask rhetorical questions:
Have there been any white people who have gotten into an altercation outside of strip club, said they were going to get their gun, ran into a police officer with a car, and rammed into a van full of more cops >twice
DUMMIES
#1 he was not intentionally running the cop over
#2 if some weirdo pulled a gun on you and was shooting what would you do? stay in your car and stare into space??????
gosh some of you sound really slow on here
OK, another question?
Has there been any NYPD incidents where White cops shot at a White individual or Group of white individuals?
And, you got too many questions in your questions because none of it were proven.
I just asked a simple question and if it's rhetorical to you then I already know the answer.
I am not sure if you have ever been put in a situation where you may have been scared and was trying to leave a situation before it escalated, but i believe that is what the issue is here and for them to shoot at someone 50 times is uncalled for. I have never heard of any non white person being shot at or treated unfair by the police and we all know how rowdy they get after they have been drinking. They show their behinds and the police just tells them to move it along.
The one DET shot all those times to make sure no one was alive. There's a very thin line between the law and the criminal.
Dead man tell no tales.
you wanna hear a no, #9/20? ok, maybe it's none. who cares. but since you push, let's take your pathetic racism baiting to it's logical conclusion: how many young black men commit violent crimes or threaten cops compared to white? it can be rhetorical if you like... we already know the answer to that one too.
seems like a good time to stop spinning this into a race issue, doesn't it?
Who made it a race issue?
I just asked were there any NYPD incidents where white officers shot at a white individual or group of white individuals.
Simple question. And, you answered it.
NONE.
clearly you are still trying to do just that, #24.
first, yours was an inherently racist question. you divide the world into black and white in order to make a misguided point.
second, your jumping for acceptance of 'proof' with a 'maybe' is quite telling.
third, you ignore a simple question directed back at you which shows how irrelevent you are.
fourth, you are hiding behind your 'simple question' afraid to actually state your point.
do you have something to say?
It's not a racial question, just a simple factual one. I'm sure the NYPD has stats on such things.
I don't need to add to anything else I've said.
Except this,
When was the last time the NYPD had a shooting incident that involved white officers and a white individual or a group of white individuals?
I have no idea what your "maybe" was in reference to.
I love blogs. They bring things clearly into focus for those of us who believe that we live in a loving, color blind society. Keep it up guys. I'm enjoying the education.
only one of the officers was white and you're still playing the race card. are you saying something? yaaawn.
So were there any incidents in the NYC NYPD of them shooting a White individual or a group of white individuals? Just a curiosity factor.
Yes or No?
If yes, when? if not, then I guess it's NO.
How bout within the last 40 years? Does that make it easier?
i really don't care. if you want an answer, do the research.
So that means, NO incidents like this has happened to white individuals or groups of white individuals.
Only Blacks and Hispanics. You can check on that stat. It's much easier. You don't even need to go back forty years, my friend.
your point, my diligent researcher?
the shooters were 2 blacks, 2 hispanics, 1 white.
you have nothing.