IMO if there are any riots or damage he should pay the bill.





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."

This is an unfortunate situation that I'm familiar with since it's right next door.

While the police were clearly outside any proper procedure for dealing with a potential suspect, and should never have utilized deadly force, there is no evidence that the officers involved are guilty of anything more than poor judgment. The city will definitely be liable in a civil trial, but, the judge was correct in his verdict that there was nothing to show that the officers had any intent to kill this individual.

The NYC police have one of the most difficult jobs in the country..........damned if you do...........dead if you don't. There have been similar situations on this police force in the past and there will be similar occurences in the future. In a city of 8M people, the police are perpetually in a position of danger due to the sheer numbers of perpetrators that will cause them bodily harm or death.

Sharpton has been clear in the past, and in this case, on his dismissal of due process of law. He's also quite good at inciting others around his own cause. Sharpton's main cause is the promotion of Al Sharpton, unfortunately...........nothing more.

It's highly unlikely that anything serious will happen due to his rants.

Sharpton would be happy to create a tinderbox and light it off. Rioting, car burning, business looting and general anarchy are tools of the left.

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Why stop with shutting it down? Send it to some other freaking country.

Sharpton vastly overestimates his influence.

Is poor judgement resulting in the death of an innocent civilian not criminal? Why?

We should've tackled this kind of problem the last time ~50 bullets were pumped into a black man in NY.

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What does blackness have to do with the tragedy? Wouldn't it be tragic if the man were Eskimo (Inuit to the youngsters out there).

It would be a different story if all THREE of the Police shooters were ALL WHITE.

They weren't.

Two of them are black. This makes Sharpton's job much harder this time.

Sharpton is the poster boy for black racism.

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Go ahead say what you are REALLY thinking. You mean BLACK PEOPLE, not "the left" don't you.

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1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

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2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

No. I mean democrats.

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All democrats do this? Funny that I don't see it very often, and when it happens, there is no general democratic support.

I don't like him one bit, all he is trying to do is grab some fame and money.

He is all hot air.

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No, it is not criminal. Poor judgment by a police officer is just that.........poor judgment.

Unless you change the statutes, it will remain poor judgment no matter how much Sharpton bellows.

It might have been a different story. However, the police officers still would have not committed any state crime. Whether the Feds can hang a charge of violating the civil rights of the deceased is open to question. But, the Feds have a good track record of convicting just about anybody they select.........usually by plea bargain.