Not even Guilty of a Misdemeanor after more than 50 shots kill an innocent man without warning...

3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting - New York Times
The detectives were found not guilty on all felony and misdemeanor charges in the November 2006 death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Queens...

All I can say is it's simply incredible. But it highlights two sobering facts.

Proof, as if we didn't have enough that:

1) America has been, since 9/11, a shadow of what it once was and represented. Today we are a Police State, where: illegal wiretaps, falsifying evidence, torture, and shooting without warning are endorsed by the highest ranks of government. That "shining city upon the hill" has gone dark, while the echoes of air raid sirens and combat boots are the only sounds to punctuate the oppressive silence.

2) racism is still alive and well in America. Sadly, one everyday black man's life just isn't worth anything in the eyes of many in this society.


"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy... ..Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." MLK (1963)


For those of you in New Jersey, here are two New York Times pieces collectively demonstrating that racism has been and remains prevalent in our own New Jersey State Police (yes, I am saying that many NJ State Troopers are racist a**holes - the TRUTH HURTS):

A Troubling Encounter With the State Police

U.S. WILL MONITOR NEW JERSEY POLICE ON RACE PROFILING


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