Monday, April 28, 2008
Unbelievable
I saw this story on Friday:
Then, this morning I read:
I can't believe I'm saying this, but in this case I think I have to a-- that is, I believe I ag--, well, it does seem that I have to agree-with-Sharpton-okay-there-I-said-it... whew
After nearly nine weeks of heated testimony and arguments by Queens prosecutors and the attorneys for Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman acquitted the officers of all criminal charges in the [Nov. 25, 2006, shooting of Sean Bell.]...
Cooperman, who presided over the non-jury trial, agreed with the defense that the detectives were justified in firing 50 bullets at the unarmed men because the officers believed their lives were in danger outside a strip club in Jamaica...
Prosecutors argued that Oliver, who fired 31 times and reloaded; Isnora, who fired 11 times; and Cooper, who fired four times; were reckless and did not stop to assess the situation when they mistakenly thought Bell was shooting at them.
Then, this morning I read:
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."
I can't believe I'm saying this, but in this case I think I have to a-- that is, I believe I ag--, well, it does seem that I have to agree-with-Sharpton-okay-there-I-said-it... whew
5 Comments:
That's the funniest confession I've read in a long time.
Yeah, it still throbs a little.
As Glenn Beck always says, "It is not about Right and Left, but what is 'Right'."
It is all about truth, and though Sharpton drives me up a wall because of his racially devisive language most of the time, he is correct here. This is an issue about what is right, not black or white.
PAX
JD
Dude, that rhymed! Way to go.
You can see me at the local coffee house every Thursday evening from 8 to 10 spinning my rhyme from time to time.
PAX
JD
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