Very interesting… When the news came out that Saint Sean Bell shot a drug dealer, the Al Sharptons of the world couldn’t get it out of the news fast enough. Gothamist commenters, predictably, were apoplectic over what they perceived as the smearing of the great Saint Sean Bell.

Well, now we have another smear job, this time against one of the police officers involved in the shooting. According to Gothamist:

Det. Marc Cooper is being accused of and sued for beating a man as he arrested him in another club the month before the Sean Bell shooting. Cooper has already been indicted on reckless endangerment charges related to the four shots he fired out of fifty total in the Bell incident. The latest complaint alleges that Cooper manhandled Michael Blakey and Earnest Ellison as he arrested them for selling marijuana in Queens’ Club Amazura in late October 2006. Ellison filed his own suit shortly after his arrest and before the Bell shooting. Blakey’s complaint was filed more recently and months after the events that put Marc Cooper and three other cops on the front pages of local papers.

And of course, the outrage meter over at the Gothamist comments section is… At… Well, zero.

See, when Saint Sean’s story about shooting the drug dealer came out, we had tons of comments talking about how the past was the past, history didn’t matter, and it was irrelevant to what happened that night. Somehow along those same lines, a police officer’s prior actions have become fodder for the anti-police lynch mob led by Al Sharpton and his thugs to assault the character of the defendants in the court of public opinion.

The Daily News, on April 1, also portrayed another one of the officers in an unflattering light, again, dragging up stories from his past, as a “dangerous” man. Again, the collective outrage of the Gothamist commenters?

Zero.

Not one mention of how the past is the past.

Apparently the past is only the past as it applies to Saint Sean Bell.

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