How is it that police unload 50 bullets on three men, killing one and then a court of law acquits them of ALL wrong doing? That is the end result of the Sean Bell trial. According to a New York Post article this morning, the judge in the case, prior to announcing the verdict said that the police officer's version of events were more credible than the victims' version. Read the entire article here. I remember this story during the 2006 Thanksgiving holidays as we had family in from New York. In discussing the events, we all believed this case would have a better ending for the survivors, unlike Amadou Diallo. You may recall he met the same fate back in 1999 when police unloaded 40 or so bullets on him. Their justification for this - they believed he was armed. In reality he was reaching for his wallet. After only two days of deliberating the jury cleared the police officers in his case of any wrong. His family sued and was awarded a three million dollar settlement. I wonder how many more times will this have to happen before we as a society see something wrong with this type of policing.
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Cases like this are truly saddening. I find it repulsing that someone can be sent to prison in this country for cruelty to an animal, but a Black man can get shot over 50 times and it's justifiable. Maybe if Sean Bell was a pitbull, his case would have had more consideration. This country needs ALOT of prayer.
Kenya
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