Well, the good news for the ghetto trash throughout the city is now they have the excuse they need to hate the “pigs.” They welcomed the verdict from the courthouse steps with chants of “KKK” and a few scuffles as the civilized oppressed citizens of this city made the most of the fact that they had a few hours of getting away with anything they did in the name of being traumatized.
You could feel this coming from miles away. The Bell / Paultre-Bell family did a great job of poisoning the city with their outrage. Before a single word in the case was even heard, the city had already decided the guilt of the officers. Apparently, a lot of shots = guilty. Forget the situation. Forget the horrid neighborhood. Forget the fact that one detective was hit by a car that was used to flee and may have been used as a deadly weapon. Forget that Saint Sean Bell was a known problem with a record of drug dealing and weapon possession. Forget that he didn’t put his hands up when ordered by police. Forget that he was legally intoxicated.
Forget all that.
Cops shot someone.
Cops are wrong.
The race-baiters and anti-police contingent are all outraged over this. The news media is back to shoving microphones in the face of Al Sharpton, famous advocate for Tawanna Brawley whose lie about a police detective was amplified by Sharpton again and again until Brawley confessed that it was indeed false. As a result, Al Sharpton was ordered to pay civil damages to Steven Pagones; damages of which he has not received one single cent.
So now idiots are marching in the streets demanding justice. Police are being called racist pigs, and the justice system is being mocked. In the minds of those marching, justice isn’t justice. Justice is a conviction.
In fact, just look at this tripe:
In New York City it seems that cops can do anything without any repercussions.
That’s what the attitude is in this city from the minority “community.” Anything short of a conviction is a failure. Apparently, a justice system that doesn’t just summarily convict all police officers who are tried (well, all cops who are tried; if a minority in this city is convicted in a high profile case, that’s not justice).
The person quoted above mentions Bell and Amadou Diallo; another cause celebre among “the police are pigs” movement. Amadou Diallo, an African Immigrant who never bothered to learn English was shot in the vestibule of his apartment building. Police asked him to freeze and put his hands up. Instead of following instructions, the man put his hand in his back pocket and turned around. At that point, he was shot 47 times. The item he pulled out of his pocket in the dark was a wallet, and apparently, police are meant to assume every person going into their pocket is trying to get ID and not freezing when told means you just don’t speak enough languages.
I’ve had my run ins with the NYPD in the past. I wast at a Critical Mass that was an utter mess and the police spent most of the time harassing riders. I was harassed for stopping and taking photographs of the NYC Subway, something I used to do on a regular basis. Make no mistake, I’m not some mouthpiece for the NYPD, but when you watch your city fall apart because a few racist “community leaders” manage to fire up the masses and turn them all against the NYPD in the name of justice, it tends to rile you up.
The NYPD isn’t perfect, but the people baiting the city into riots over this decision have really picked the wrong horse to throw their saddle on.
Protest photograph by Jason DeCrow of the AP
