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Al Sharpton's Protest: 'Kill the Police'

Al Sharpton's Protest: 'Kill the Police'

Al Sharpton comments on the not guilty verdict of the three New York City detectives in the November 2006 killing of Sean Bell as shooting victim Joseph Guzman, right, William Bell, left, Valerie Bell, second from left, and Nicole Paultre Bell, third from

AP

April 26, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) – Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to “close this city down” to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.

“We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians,” Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. “This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell.”

Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell – a black man – and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.

The rally at Sharpton’s office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem’s main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out “Kill the police!”

Fifty of the marchers carried white placards bearing big black numbers for each of the police bullets fired at Bell and his friends.

Sharpton urged people to return for a meeting this coming week “to plan the day that we will close this city down” with the kind of “massive civil disobedience” once led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

“They never accused Sean Bell of doing anything. Then why is he dead?” Sharpton asked, his voice roaring with anger. Authorities “have shown now that they will not hold police accountable. Well, guess what? If you won’t, we will!”

“Shut it down! Shut it down!” the crowd chanted, standing up and applauding wildly.

Sharpton didn’t say exactly how they would protest the acquittals of the officers who fired the 50 shots. He said Bell’s supporters could demonstrate all over the city, from Wall Street to the home of Justice Arthur Cooperman, who on Friday acquitted the three detectives after a nonjury trial.

Sitting behind Sharpton as he spoke were Bell’s parents, his sister and Nicole Paultre Bell, who took her fiance’s name after his death.

“The justice system let me down,” Paultre Bell told the crowd in a soft voice. “April 25, 2008: They killed Sean all over again. That’s what it felt like to us.”

It was her first public comment since she stormed out of a courtroom Friday after the NYPD detectives were cleared in Bell’s killing as he left his bachelor party.

One of Bell’s companions, Joseph Guzman, also spoke briefly on Saturday, saying: “We’ve got a long fight.”

(c) 2008 YellowBrix, Inc.


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    Jerome06

    9 days ago

    222 comments

    We are trying to move foreward in equality, this a@$ is moving things backwards. He's only out for the money and he's promotin racism!
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    Posse44

    27 days ago

    192 comments

    Another fruit loop to walk next to Jesse Jackson.
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    RBressler29

    29 days ago

    37 comments

    Is this not another showing of the quality of life which the media is pushing upon the cattle of citizens who armchair QB everything? Please refer to the also associated post of Jesse Jackson (the other "leader) saying that Chicago PD should not have AR-15's. It is the pieces of trash like this that is going to lead us into further issues. Where do you see these scums when everything is going well, are they feeding the hungry? Have they worked an honest days work? No. They are supported by the cattle in which they lead, and I'm sorry, but I take A-1 on my steak.
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    PAL

    about 1 month ago

    16 comments

    Al Sharpton is a menace to society. If that had been anyone else protesting and rioting like he and his group they would have had the book thrown at them. Inciting a riot in NY City during the middle of the week saying "Kill the Police" is not a laughing matter nor should it be someones right to do the same. What if one of his morons had killed an Officer then what? Would he (Sharpton) be held responsible for it or would it be just Sharpton running off at the mouth again. Sharpton should not have "Reverend" in front of his name nor should his actions be excused like all the other times. He has been linked to numerous crimes he and Mayor Marion Barry from DC spent alot of time together in the 80's...( does the crack -Cocaine and prostitute scandel ring a bell) . Now he and the Bell family have implied that it's not just white people but now the Police are also racist. Anyone else think maybe Sharpton may need to up his meds???
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    BABYDANDOON

    about 1 month ago

    160 comments

    Al is wasting his time..... Bell family is taking on NYPD because they are hurt and upset that Sean Bell was killed. My paryers goes to the Bell family I wish the best for NYPD and God bless!
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    vbpdaco

    about 1 month ago

    169 comments

    You can yell and scream like a two year old about race all you want but three cops saw a veh about to run them down and there race had nothing to do with it...
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    vbpdaco

    about 1 month ago

    169 comments

    You are so caught up in race and it has nothing to do with it. Sounds to me you have race issues.....I say again if you were about to be run down would you shoot??? Simple answer yes or no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Sobay96

    about 1 month ago

    53 comments

    Better yet. By Buchanam --------------------------------------------------------------- Need to have a conversation about race in America? Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude? Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent? Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself? As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing. Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
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    Sobay96

    about 1 month ago

    53 comments

    "Rev. Al Sharpton nor Rev. Wright are racist. Everyone who say they are without knowing the facts is racist themselves." Not racists?...Man, ignorance at its best. Get your head out of the sand.
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    vbpdaco

    about 1 month ago

    169 comments

    Hey noga let me ask you this if I tried to run you down with my suv and you had a gun, would you not shot to stop me from running you down. There you go in plain english would you shoot???? Oh and can you tell if you would only shoot once? I don't think so!!!!! You my friend are not in a place of steady ground right now... So think before you post... I feel no I know that being a human with self preservation built in by GOD I would have shot the guy untill my gun was empty aswell....This is not a race thing it was a want to go home to see there loved ones you jerk...If you want to jugde put yourself in there shoes first...Who cares what you read or watch the facts are the facts......!!!!! You are not a LEO and don't know the fear we have day to day that we may not go home one day... So yeah big ass car trying to run you down, oh yeah you would shoot!!!!
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    Robocop33

    about 1 month ago

    1633 comments

    What a couple of complete idiots! Unfortunately there are many just like those two who are clueless and have no idea what they are talking about, One says he does not listen to the media yet he gets his info from a black magazine and Al Sharpton's radio show! That is media and media of the worst kind, bigoted media! If you look at the above photo you will see everyone there with huge smiles on their faces just delighting n the attention they are getting fir this POS Bell and his associated. These people are gang-bangers and drug dealers, not your next door neighbors.
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    10X

    about 1 month ago

    182 comments

    Trolls or traveling internet transients who stop by to put in their "two cents" of Psycho Babble should be ignored (just like we do on the streets). You can't talk sense to a crazy person, so why try? Just feel sorry for their narrow minds and MODS...shut and lock the door behind them!
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    KSP494

    about 1 month ago

    126 comments

    Hey goober you're on the wrong site to be talking that way to an LEO. Take your trash talk elsewhere.
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    lauradrizzt

    about 1 month ago

    66 comments

    I think it is pretty common knowledge that Al Sharpton doesn't care about anything other than getting publicity and money for himself. He makes constantly biased and prejudicial remarks, and can't justify the actions of criminals attempting to kill police officers. I think it is a shame in this world that when a criminal is hurt or killed everyone wants to attack the police force. Who raises hell when an officer is killed? Does Al Sharpton ever say we are gonna shut these criminals down? Does he ever console or hold vigils when an officer is slain? What if these guys had killed or maimed the officers? What then? Somehow if they had all lived and the officers were the victims, I think their families would blame the officers for them being in prison...which is typical....
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    JustinUSMC

    about 1 month ago

    244 comments

    Nogahlight, You should hede RPL's warning. YOU are a guest on this website. Also, it is well known that Al Sharpton, ( I refuse to call that man a Reverend. It seems like ANYONE who attends those types of "Christian Churches" can become a Reverend. LOL.), is a racist. It is also known that he will do ANYTHING to get his fat face in front of a camera! WAKE UP! Sharpton doesnt give 2 sh*ts about black people. He ONLY cares about DEAD PRESIDENTS. The more money he can make, the better. He is a crook and everyone knows it and now we have MORE facts to prove it. AHEM... over 1.5 MILLION dollars owed to the IRS in back taxes!! BTW: ARE YOU SERIOUS? 7 KIDS? *Hi, my name is Cynthia and I am a stay-at-home mom and I have seven children. I don't have a job yet. I love surfing the net during my spare time which is usually in the evening when the children are in bed. I am working on my GED and after that I plan to go to school to work on my associate degree and get a degree in Business Aministration*

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