An ex-con accused of the cold-blooded slaying of Police Officer Russel Timoshenko in a Brooklyn traffic stop was cleared of murder Wednesday night – a verdict that drew outrage and bewilderment.
A Brooklyn Supreme Court jury also found Robert Ellis, 35, not guilty of trying to murder Timoshenko’s partner, Officer Herman Yan, 27, but convicted him of three counts of weapons possession, with each count punishable by up to 15 years.
Prosecutors convinced that Ellis was a triggerman in the attack are expected to ask for the full 45 years. He had faced life without parole on the murder charge.
And the amount of outrage in the city? Zero. You don’t see people running around the city jumping in front of mics to tell reporters about the racist injustice in this city. Why? Because when a black piece of garbage kills a cop, there’s never a racial undertone (unlike when Saint Sean Bell was killed; that was obviously racist because he was black! No justice no peace!). When a white piece of garbage cop kills a black kid in Harlem, we have to withstand days and days of marches, protests, and outrage.
We sat here for months and watched Sean Bell’s opportunistic fiance weep on camera about the devastating death of her future husband and then watched as every schmuck who could afford a microphone rushed to get on a camera and protest because of the injustice.
Where’s the outrage here?
Oh there is none. It’s a cop. And he was white. And the shooter was black.
Tell me there isn’t a double-standard in this city; I dare you.
And just to complement the story, I’ll leave you with a quote from one of the jurors:
“There’s no argument in my eyes,” said alternate juror Luis Viera, 44, who sat in the jury box for five weeks. “If he was in the car, he killed them. If you’re acting in concert, you should be held accountable. They were planning to shoot the poor cops.”
Yep. It really is that obvious.