Let's hope there are no agent provocateurs in the protest marches, and if so, they are to be called out!!!!
"3 NYPD officers cleared in killing"
"by Tom Hays, Associated Press | April 26, 2008
NEW YORK - Civil rights leaders demanded a federal investigation and vowed to march through the streets in protest after three police officers were cleared of all charges yesterday in the killing of an unarmed man cut down in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day.
The verdict by Justice Arthur Cooperman elicited gasps as well as tears of joy and sorrow.... Bell, a 23-year-old black man, was killed outside a seedy strip club in Queens in 2006 as he was leaving his bachelor party with two friends. The officers - undercover detectives who were investigating reports of prostitution at the club - said they thought one of the men had a gun.
In announcing his verdict in the nonjury trial, the judge said that the inconsistent testimony, courtroom demeanor, and rap sheets of the prosecution witnesses - mainly Bell's friends - "had the effect of eviscerating" their credibility....
But crooked or murdering cops always get the benefit of the doubt!
Also see: For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he is organizing "economic withdrawal" and "civil disobedience" that could involve going to jail and marching on Wall Street, at the judge's house, and at police headquarters.
"We are going to close the city down in a nonviolent, effective way," Sharpton said. "We're going to hit the pocketbooks. We're going to let you know that we are not going to be in any way diverted from exercising our civil rights."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: "We don't expect any violence, nor is there any place for it."
Tell that to your TRIGGER-HAPPY, MURDERING COPS, asshole!!!!
.... The case brought back painful memories of other New York police shootings, such as the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo, an African immigrant who was killed in a barrage of 41 bullets by police officers who later said they mistook his wallet for a gun. The acquittal of the officers in that case led to days of protests, with hundreds arrested...."
Once is a MISTAKE!!
TWICE (or more) is a PATTERN!!!!
