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Apr 27, 2008

Outcome of NYPD case leads to call for special prosecutor

“I don't believe a police department involved in a shooting should be responsible for the crime scene”

A coalition of civil rights advocates on Sunday urged changes in the handling of police misconduct and brutality complaints after the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man on his wedding day.

They also called for a permanent state-level special prosecutor to investigate such cases.

'The verdict in the Sean Bell case proves it is almost impossible to successfully prosecute cases of police misconduct, especially in homicide cases,' said lawyer Norman Siegel, former head of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Read more

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Apr 28, 2008
 
this should be looked into and changes made but the hate mongering Rev. Al is looking for a riot. He is worse than those he accuses of injustice because he incites people and abuses their mourning so he can have an excuse to cause racial friction and hatred.

this is a true injustice but allowing Rev. Al and his racism to piggyback it is only going to make it lose it's importance.
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Apr 28, 2008
 
Absolutely right - sad that a person like him is given so much publicity - he is nothing but a troublemaker

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Apr 28, 2008
 
1. Cops should have never even been charged!
2. Racism is claimed everytime blacks do wrong, so nobody knows if they are crying wolf.
3. Blacks are more racist than whites!
4. How come blacks are never charged w/ "Hate Crimes?
4. If the blacks followed directions instead of trying to run the cops down w/ their SUV, they'd be alive.
5. He won't try running over any more cops or commit other crimes!

Officers should never have been charged, but instead given the medals they rightfully deserve.

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Apr 28, 2008
 
Sharpton & Jackson would be crying racism if special prosecutors were brought in if races were reversed! But that would never happen.
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Apr 28, 2008
 
Were not some of the cops black? Can't cry racism Al, try again...
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Apr 28, 2008
 
we in the UK support your cops, and are glad they were acquitted. It's getting the same over here, though.
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Apr 28, 2008
 
I'm sure that Sharpton will be welcomed in Crown Heights.

Sharpton doesn't care who he hurts. Even the innocent.

He did a real bang up job in Jena... that's for sure.

I'm sure Sharpton will be looked upon fondly as he will reflect badly upon Obama.

One thing for certain, Sharpton means job stability for law enforcement when he takes center stage. Maybe, he would prefer that law enforcement sit back and watch the show begin as their own are under attack by Sharpton and his cronies.
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Apr 28, 2008
 
takenitlight wrote:
1. Cops should have never even been charged!
2. Racism is claimed everytime blacks do wrong, so nobody knows if they are crying wolf.
3. Blacks are more racist than whites!
4. How come blacks are never charged w/ "Hate Crimes?
4. If the blacks followed directions instead of trying to run the cops down w/ their SUV, they'd be alive.
5. He won't try running over any more cops or commit other crimes!
Officers should never have been charged, but instead given the medals they rightfully deserve.
Maybe it was the SUV's fault. Just like guns kill people not the perpetrator's inacting violence upon the public and... LEO's.

Now the taxpayer's to foot the bill. Maybe Al can take up a fund for the families just like he did in Jena in that it was such a splendid success.
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May 7, 2008
 
Give em all "One behind the ear" and dump their as5'es in the river....
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May 7, 2008
 
Al S. is the racist of all racists! The only time he's in the news, is when he invents a black/white racist thing....what a dope !!
The black community really has no intelligent spokes-person to look up to.
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May 7, 2008
 
Heen wrote:
Absolutely right - sad that a person like him is given so much publicity - he is nothing but a troublemaker
What does that say for the demographic which faithfully follows him? Seems almost like Hitler and his Nazi Party. How should other "demographics" then feel about them?
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May 7, 2008
 
Al Sharpton is so quick to draw when police does something to black people. We is Al and Jessie at when all these black kids in Chicago are killing each other. They need to worry about what we are doing to Each other, not what they are doing to us
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May 7, 2008
 
Note to Al "don't drop the soap"
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May 7, 2008
 
Unfortunately, the African-American community is a total utter disaster. Total utter disaster. They destroy everything they touch. The worst is that they are the same everywhere. They move to Europe and behave just as the children of slaves do here.
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May 7, 2008
 
Throw away the key!!!!!!!!!!
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May 7, 2008
 
Barrick Obama, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson = Soul Brothers.
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May 7, 2008
 
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Were not some of the cops black? Can't cry racism Al, try again...
Yea 2 of them and the reason why this punk was shot was because he claimed "he was going to go get a gun" and some off duty cops over heard it and followed him and called for backup, when the cops came the kids rammed the cop car and were shot.

Even I know if you purposly ram a police car you get shot, I have seen it on tv about 100 times on those cop shows.

But of cousre Al thinks blacks should be above the law. Al thinks blacks should be able to shoot one another rape, rob and live guilt free for it.
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May 7, 2008
 
nicole wrote:
Al Sharpton is so quick to draw when police does something to black people. We is Al and Jessie at when all these black kids in Chicago are killing each other. They need to worry about what we are doing to Each other, not what they are doing to us
Pretty much what I was going to type-they are mysteriously absent when it doesn't directly benefit them (with media coverage) as people are killed everyday.
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Pretty much what I was going to type-they are mysteriously absent when it doesn't directly benefit them (with media coverage) as people are killed everyday.
Al is a huge racist and the only good thing I've ever gotten out of him is a stupid looking Mii to use when I play Wii Sports. Don't "wonder" why he isn't concerned with Chicago. The truth is anathema to people like Al and they will never address it.
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#23
May 7, 2008
 
Where is a tazer happy cop when you need one.
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