Sharpton Calls Shooting Verdict “Abortion Of Justice”
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(April 25, 2008)—The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling the acquittal of three New York City police detectives in the wedding day shooting of bridegroom Sean Bell an “abortion of justice.”

Bell was shot 50 times on Nov. 26, 2006 and two other men were seriously injured.

Sharpton used his radio show Friday to issue a call to action in response to the verdict.

“Let me say I just left the cemetery where Sean Bell is buried with his wife Nicole, his parents, Mr. William and Mrs. Valerie Bell. They will all be here tomorrow morning at the House of Justice for the Saturday morning action rally where we will prepare to go forward in this pursuit of justice,” he said.

A New York City judge announced the verdict Friday morning.

Defense attorneys had painted the victims as drunken thugs who the officers believed were armed and dangerous.

Prosecutors sought to convince the judge that the victims had been minding their own business, and that the officers were inept, trigger-happy aggressors.

Federal authorities are expected to examine the case to determine if the officers had violated Bell and the two other victims' civil rights.

The head a police detectives' association called Sharpton's remark "despicable."
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Posted by: DeathThreatVictim Location: NYC on Apr 28, 2008 at 09:07 PM
Maybe more people would start taking Al Sharpto seriously if he didn't play the Politically Correct game of only protesting against easy targets. Why is it that Al Sharpton is perfectly OK with having famous and successful black men like Chuck Berry and Jack Johnson thrown in jail for violating the Mann Act, when a proven guilty rich white boy like Eliot Spitzer avoids punishment? Is Sharpton not aware that the Spitzer family has a decades long tradition of being members of the racially biased Harmonie Club on Manhattan's Upper West Side? Why is Al Sharpton pulling his punches against Eliot Spitzer, the corrupt New York official who put more young black men in New York State prisons using Rockefeller's drug laws in the last year than have died in Iraq, Afghanistan, and gang shootings over the last decade. Hey Al, why not call for a Special Prosecutor to examine Eliot Spitzer's decades long business with the prostitution wings of a few Organized Crime families?
Posted by: Leroy Location: New York City on Apr 28, 2008 at 05:13 PM
Black men are shot, cops go free. Eliot Spitzer puts young Blacks and Latinos in jail for the Rockefeller drug laws, but Eliot Spitzer goes free. Chuck Berry and other famous black men are put in jail for violating the Mann Act. Eliot Spitzer goes free, with no doubt help from his racist white club membership father and all of their hidden ties.
Posted by: condemned on Apr 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Gee I wonder what kind of action he is calling for!
Posted by: mikey Location: in the country on Apr 25, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Brother Al would stand on the side of the devil himself if he knew God was white. (By the way he isnt).
Posted by: Madmax Location: Killeen on Apr 25, 2008 at 04:24 PM
Al Sharpton is a loser..He really needs to stay out of everybody's business..
Posted by: woohoo on Apr 25, 2008 at 03:54 PM
Just like sharton to defend the thugs!!
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