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Yesterday, Democracy Now.org showed footage taken from the Air Train station near the club in Jamaica, Queens where Sean Bell and his two friends were shot by police. And the video (link to download MP3) is bananas. One video shows a bullet coming into the station and barely missing a man. Another video shows two Port Authority police officers ducking from the bullets and running. The Daily News' Juan Gonzalez, who co-hosts Democracy Now, explained the tape:
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, I think one of the things it shows, number one, is that there were a lot more people in danger that night by this shooting, the 50-shot barrage of the police officers at the scene, five cops at the scene, plainclothes and undercover. There had been a report that there had been at least one errant bullet, and I think Graham Weatherspoon -- he was on this show also -- talked about one that went into a home and hit a lamp. But it turns out that this particular bullet that went to the Air Train, which was --This comes as some critics claim the polices at the undercover operation during November 25 were not properly trained to use their firearms.AMY GOODMAN: And this is the train to the plane, to Kennedy Airport.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes, the Port Authority’s train to the plane. And the Jamaica station is right down Liverpool Street, where the shooting occurred about half a block away from the shooting. And also, it’s an elevated station, so these bullets had to travel from the ground up, considerably up, in the air to reach the platform of the elevated station.
And the video that was made available to me by a source shows there’s a Port Authority police -- two cameras. And it shows, as we saw in the video, that one elderly gentleman with his luggage was -- the bullet almost hit him in the head, because you actually see the trail of the bullet shattering the glass and right at the eye level of the man, right in front of him. And he drops his luggage and runs. And the two Port Authority police nearby scampered away. One actually has filed for a line-of-duty injury.
Today, Gonzalez's Daily News column features an interview with the supposed "fourth man," Jean Nelson, who says, "The man with the gun never yelled 'police.'"
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There was no fourth man but if there was, he didn't hear the police identify themselves? Who's running this show? O.J.?
I bet *some* people will be outraged now. /snark
There were early reports of "a guy who was there, but wasn't wearing a beige jacket like the police say he was." Perhaps this is him. He never says he was in the car.
It's a somewhat lucid account of the way it may have gone down, though he's coy about a particular detail that people would want to know.
Democracy Now = Most boring newscast ever.
Regardless, that's pretty messed up. By the way, I love how the PA cops did such a good job protecting everybody (run, piggy run!)
Oh, and the post implies that that .mp3 file is the Port Authority video - but it's just the radio show.
That's some video. I liked how the two PA cops just ran for their lives and not hit the deck.
I think the heavier one cut a corner too sharply and slipped. That's the funny part. I'm guessing he's the one filing for disability. lucky bastid.
Gotta love the security guy in the foreground who is like, "huh? someone say something?". So we got people flying so close to Manhattan they can crash right into a building and we got security people who are no better than sleep walkers. Meanwhile when the cops aren't shooting someone they are running for door. All the while there is a person and a kid standing right in the open and nobody tells them to get down or move. Homeland security dollars at work. Nice.
It sure looks like the cop slid intentionally to me. Maybe he got the equivalent of rug burns from the floor.
The cop slid into a kneel. you can see if clearly if you watch the first video, you see him get up from the slide into a kneeling stance. In the second video it only shows him go into the slide, but the slide is angled toward the middle of the doorway and not in the direction he'd have gone if he had fallen while running.
A bunch of the people were behind the cover of the kiosk there. and the rest of the people were just feet from the other protective area with solid walls. There is no sound so people might have been yelling "get down, get down" or some such thing but we all know people are jackasses and just stand about "Huh what? HUH DUuuurrr" like that TSA guy who could have been smacked in the face with a sign that said 'Attention: Gun shot noise, exploding glass." and he still just stood there.
TSA are USELESS. The cops getting to cover is their training. Notice PA cops dont just draw their guns to shoot 50 bullets in rapid fire at some unknown target, because they're better trained and better paid.
Odd, that's the first time I saw a person slide into a kneeling stance with his arms all akimbo and flaying. Looks like he slipped.
Nothing wrong with that, we all slipped before.
If he did slid into a kneel, why was he kneeling in the middle of a walkway/hallway? shouldn't he kneel behind cover?
You make a lot of assumptions there. I only made one and that's the one where he slipped cutting a corner too tight.