Sharpton Threatens Insurrection
April 27th, 2008 at 11:01am Mark Noonan
And on and on and on goes the story of a race hustler who makes his living off of keeping hate alive…
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!”
Please note the name of the street they marched down - Malcolm X Boulevard…a street named in honor of a racial con artist, just like Al Sharpton. We can either keep going - and eventually have the corner of Malcolm X Blvd and Al Sharpton Way, or we can stop playing these games. Whatever happened in the Bell case - and it does seem, to an outsider who doesn’t know all the details (ie, I wasn’t on the jury), that something has gone wrong with our legal system - the facts of the case do not warrant punishing all of the citizens of the New York City. And when we see some people shouting “kill the police”, we know we’ve got a poisonous, incendiary situation which requires the authorities to remain vigilant and immediately arrest anyone who appears to be inciting violence in any way, shape or form.
We must cease this paying court to the rabble rouser who shouts the loudest - order a re-investigation of the case; see if there is a federal civil rights case in regards to the death of Bell…but arrest Al Sharpton if he even looks like he’s going to start something.
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1. police » Blog Archi&hellip | April 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am
[…] rc wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… that something has gone wrong with our legal system - the facts of the case do not warrant punishing all of the citizens of the New York City. And when we see some people shouting “kill the police”, we know we’ve got a poisonous, … […]
2. bagni | April 27th, 2008 at 11:33 am
marksharp
the alienistas thought you were going on a cruise?
and you’re right
this case does warrant a ‘re-investigation’
the interstellar imbibers will bet you a boat deck margarita it will never happen
have a nice float!
3. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
>>>>December 4, 2006 The allegation that last weekend’s shooting was racially motivated is preposterous. A group of undercover officers working in a gun- and drug-plagued strip joint in Queens had good reason to believe that a party leaving the club was armed and about to shoot an adversary. When one of the undercovers identified himself as an officer, the car holding the party twice tried to run him down. The officer started firing while yelling to the car’s occupants: “Let me see your hands.” His colleagues, believing they were under attack, fired as well, eventually shooting off 50 rounds and killing the driver, Sean Bell. No gun was found in the car, but witnesses and video footage confirm that a fourth man in the party fled the scene once the altercation began. Bell and the other men with him all had been arrested for illegal possession of guns in the past; one of Bell’s companions that night, Joseph Guzman, had spent considerable time in prison, including for an armed robbery in which he shot at his victim.<<<<<
The ONLY reason liberals are in a huff is because the victim was black. Had he been white, there would be no controversy.
And after reading the above article, had the perpetrators obeyed police commands, everyone would have been ok. But according to bagni, this cut and dried case deserves re-investigation, if only to keep the racial animous alive. What a guy he is.
And it’s good to see that the liberal race merchants will get some more good mileage out of this. I wonder where Sharpton was when Sean Bell was arrested the first time?
4. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
You think the race merchants are upset now? Wait until Hillary takes the nomination away from Barack.
5. Bill Eischeidt | April 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
4. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Veep will be plenty for BO to assure HRC 99.9% of the black vote in the states that matter. You looked at an electoral map lately? Tell me how Al Sharpton hurts HRC in NY if BO is her Veep?
6. Canuckguy | April 27th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Two of the accused police were black, n’est pas?
So imagine Sharpton’s outrage if they were all white.
7. FmrMarine | April 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Mark
>>>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.<<<
Here we go again.
SOOOO the black “community” does not like a verdict…..so the answer is protest, riot, threaten, and demand a “federal” trial.
Does double jeopardy mean anything any more??
He!! No…. just charge them with a different crime like “civil rights violation” …..BINGO whitey is nailed, and the black Gods are appeased.
STAY ARMED there WILL be a time when it is needed.
8. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Bill,
so you’re ok with a Hillary nomination despite the overwhelming majority of delegates prefering Obama?
wow. and you don’t think that the african-american community, many of whom support Obama only because of his skin color, would be upset?
and you’re a journalist?
incidentally, Obama would NEVER accept the VP nomination under Hillary. I would think that you would know that. But I should never assume anything of a liberal.
9. Bill Eischeidt | April 27th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
8. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
First things first.
The primaries aren’t over and HRC still has a good chance of being the nominee after NC and Indiana are decided. She wins both of theose states and the superdelegates, black and white flock to her and make it a done deal. Then you’ll have the Reverend Wright matter off the table and the Right can focus on trying to paint McCain as a better choice than HRC. Given the state of the economy good luck with that.
Who are the black voters supposed to go with the renaissance of the old dixiecrats and all those people who are eviscerating Obama for what the black community has always felt but rarely given voice to that white America lives outside the true reality of the rest of the planet.
As far as voters voting based on a single issue think the same thing applies to McCain. There are going to be millions of evangelicals who just can’t hold their nose and pull the lever for Mccain. but they will have a choice all 10 million of them and that guy is Rev. Chuck Baldwin the candidate of the Constitution Party.
From how his people talk Obama isn’t 100% opposed to being the Veep but of course that doesn’t come out of his mouth because he has a slim lead in delegates. Given the choice of being outside the leadership loop for eight years or a heartbeat from the Big Chair I’ll take the judgment of a Harvard Law grad over the sure gut feeling of some guy on a conservative blog.
Stay armed, hoo boy! All the nice stuff in America isn’t enough you always want to spill someone’s blood. How ever compassionate.
10. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
um…mr. journalist,
Hillary can not catch up to Obama in delgate count. I’t’s impossible unless she were to win 100% of the delgates in the remaining contests. Therefore, you obviously support the super delegates voting against the desires of the delegates and making Hillary the nominee. If this happens, the liberal race merchants will riot. And rightly so.
Your second paragraph highlights your inherent racism. I don’t expect you to understand that, but just read the paragraph objectively if you can. It is very demeaning of african americans.
The democrats are in the process of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once again. It is so pathetic it is laughable. You guys are too stupid to get out of your own way.
11. FmrMarine | April 27th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
B.E. poronographer;
>>>Stay armed, hoo boy! All the nice stuff in America isn’t enough you always want to spill someone’s blood. How ever compassionate.<<<
What the F does compassion have to do with being armed?
I will spill NO mans blood until i am forced to.
Where were you when almost every major city was burned, looted, rampaged in costing hundreds of lives, and BILLIONS of dollars.
Where were you when Reginald Denney had his head squashed on national TV?
Or when people had their tongues cut out and others runover so many times they were unrecognizable ( liberty city fla)
Where were you when new orleans was plagued by crime, rampage, murder, looting even by the police after katrina?
The Natl guard had to stop turn around arm and enter a city more like Mogadishu than an American city.
SO DONT even go there about spilling blood, it doesnt happen in my neighborhood.
BUT we are prepared if it happens-( like the L.A. Korean population)
The police and the military wont and cant protect us.
12. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
and remember Bill,
the votes of the people of Michigan and Florida don’t count, thanks to Howie Dean.
I wonder how supportive those two states will be of the Dem candidate in November. Or should we even count their votes?
what a pathetic bunch. LMAO
13. Bill Eischeidt | April 27th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Alright buddy where were you when the Civil Rights marches happened. Did you go to Mississippi and become a freedom marcher? Did you? Were you alive when Emmitt Till was slaughtered? If you were did you care? Did you support the black press in your city? Did you petition your city couincil to allow black people to speak?
You seem to be spoiling for that day when you can cut loose but I hope you never get the chance.
Denney was in the wrong place at the wrong time just like Rodney King.
Liberty City Florida I couldn’t find a thing out about it in 2 minutes.
Katrina? Bush should have sent Gen Honore from the jump because Mike Brown was out of his depth.
and neocon they don’t count in Michigan on your side either. But that doesn’t matter because you are so sure that evangelicals will vote for whoever the GOP puts in front of them.
14. jerry | April 27th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Mark-
There was no jury it was a bench trial. Shaprton is a huckster and does generate his status, power & money from people who feel like society treats them like sh*t. It is a sad state of affairs. But when a tragedy like this occurs it defies logic to think that these cops weren’t guilty of a crime. But the judge heard all of the evidence and I assumed applied the law properly. May the Lord bless the Bell the family.
15. Christian Wright | April 27th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Those cops were smart to have a judge decide their case. A person can only use lethal force if they believe they or another are in imminent fear of death or great bodily harm.
I am sure that was the case, but race may have played an unconscious role in the decision to use deadly force. Some of the cops I worked with were obviously more cautious when they pulled over a car full of Blacks, than a group of Whites.
The expectation of violence because of a person’s race could set the stage for whatever follows. This kind of subconscious racism is difficult to overcome because it is intertwined with the instinct of self preservation.
On the force we have a saying, “Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.” I think this attitude combined with subconscious racism did play a part in the death of that man. But as long as the act was not deliberate, those men are innocent.
16. neocon | April 27th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Bill,
evangelicals are 10% of the base, at most. Independents are usually the deciders when it comes to the general, and they seem to be favoring McCain at this point.
If white people voted for McCain strictly because he is white, would you consider that a racist tendancy?
And what do 40 year old events have to do with the current political climate? Most of the african american support for the Yale educated, successful black candidate comes from young, college enrolled black activists who are the beneficiaries of the MLK struggles. But I do realize that it is vogue to play the victim amongst liberal circles.
That’s all you folks now how to do, play the victim and find problems. So predictable.
17. Diana Powe | April 27th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Some here seem to be making uninformed assumptions. Two of the three NYPD detectives charged in this case are black men. This has nothing to do with “whitey” being “nailed”. In defiance of the accepted idea that the police get a free pass to shoot people, the district attorney’s office prosecuted the officers, however, they had to present credible witnesses to overcome a specific standard from the New York Penal Code:
The judge hearing the case made the determination that the prosecution had failed to meet its burden. The officers are hardly off the hook as they are still subject to civil suits and the potential prosecution of a separate civil rights violation allegation.
18. Sara | April 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I agree that Sharpton is nothing but a hate mongerer, but I think it was a bench trial, not a jury trial and those cops got off with a gift from the judge. I don’t blame the family for being angry. I can’t believe it myself that those cops got a walk. That said, the situation is already egregious enough without Sharpton adding fuel to the fire.
19. Tractatus | April 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
race merchants
Race merchants? Where is the market where they buy and sell races?
20. js | April 27th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
real life…50 shots…and they only “thought” the guy was “reaching” for something…if that is the basis for a police officer to use deadly force….then half of america is in danger…so…really…there is a reason for outrage….when a court of law can justify the killing of unarmed persons because they twitched….
our constitution provided us the right to protest these things…most of the time i disagree with sharpton’s and jackson’s when they play the race card…and i reject thier racism from a to z….but i cant stand up and denounce this outrage….because the court is stacked against the truth….at what point during those 50 rounds, did they realize that nobody but the police had weapons…..ecspecially when they didnt have the right to fire the first round without having seen a single weapon….
no…let the cards fall….justice has needs that should be served…
21. Christian Wright | April 27th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
“Some here seem to be making uninformed assumptions. Two of the three NYPD detectives charged in this case are black men.”
I did know that, Diana. One of the Black officers I worked with (now retired) was just as wary of Blacks as the White police officers were. He was also the only officer to use the “N” word when addressing gang members because he believed his race allowed him to. Racism isn’t always Black and White. It is also Black and Black.
22. The Real Sporer | April 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Yet this loathsome flim flam man wants to be treated like some kind of statesman or racial diplomat.
No, wait, maybe Matchstick Al is a diplomat, having marticulated at the Ribbentrop school.
23. Diana Powe | April 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
js,
Did you hear any of the trial testimony as the judge did or are you just claiming that your judgment, based on secondhand accounts, is superior to the finder of fact in this case?
24. js | April 27th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
actually putz, i believe the cops lied thier axx’s off and got away with it…read the transcript.
25. Diana Powe | April 27th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
js,
It’s nice to know that you’re always willing to demonstrate the inherent classiness of conservative Republicans with the gratuitous insult.
26. js | April 27th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
its always nice to know you are still a putz, no matter how many erroneous conclusions you come too..
27. Diana Powe | April 28th, 2008 at 12:08 am
As I said, real class…
28. congressive | April 28th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Nice deflection! A man is killed in cold blood, then the perps are sprung to lift police moral… arrest Sharpton!
It’s a pattern. Saudi Arabians attack us on 9-11… BOMB IRAQ!
29. js | April 28th, 2008 at 7:05 am
not to break your concentration, but who cares what you said….its nothing but the ego of a wannabe anyhow…..
30. FmrMarine | April 28th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
JS;
A local white kid was being perused, entered into a close neighborhood. He was trapped in a culdesac
by about 10 police cars.
He refused to exit the vehicle, when he ROLLED it ahead 1 or 2 feer he was shot at over 25 times.
He died at the scene, some angry neighbors who witnessed it stated it was an execution…………NOTHING happened the cops were cleared.
The next year a similar action took place…EXCEPT it was a black felon with a long history of assaults, drug busts etc in a STOLEN car.
Long story short………cops cleared afterwards
FIVE NIGHTS of RIOTS, LOOTING, MAYHEM, arson and MURDER.
I dont agree with actions of the police often however we cant destroy our cities every time we disagree with a verdict.
Will juries now be afraid to convict a black? or release a white for feat os a black rampage.
WTF is this somolia?
31. Bill Eischeidt | April 28th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Fmr Marine maybe those black rioters just have less to lose than Middle Class white folks who have a general aversion to anything that threatens their comfort even a corrupt government.