Sharpton Threatens Insurrection
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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