Cops Acquitted in Bell Shooting trial

Joined : 25 Feb 2008 Posts : 93 Localisation : Philly

I am absolutely disgusted by the verdict on the Sean Bell murder case. For those who haven't heard, all three cops have been found not guilty and have been acquitted of ALL charges against them.
They opted for a trial by a judge instead of a jury (as they often do when they know they guilty as hell).
I am not at all surprised Family, please do not mistake that, but when will this madness and injustice stop????!!!!????
The Bell family is asking that people remain calm and peaceful during this difficult time and not take to the streets in agression.

....Please talk to me. How are we feeling about this (again??) I should have posted this under dear diary but I would like everyone to just let it all OUT....

Joined : 20 Nov 2007 Posts : 254

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24311028#24311028

This is both angering and disheartening. But.. honestly.. I don't know what to do about this...What would actually change this situation?

Joined : 03 Apr 2008 Posts : 80

Enough to make a nigga dust off the N.W.A. album, and step out the house with some loc's on. For real though. The shit ain't cool.

Subject: Re: Cops Acquitted in Bell Shooting trial Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:23 pm

Joined : 04 Jan 2007 Posts : 194

I had a feeling that the judge would side with the officers. In their eyes, our lives are of no value. Worst of all, we kill ourselves at an incredible rate. So incredible in fact that the 2050 census prediction lists African-Americans with the same population as today. The only group without an increase in population. It's like deer season forever on us and anybody can kill us without real repercussion. I'm happy that the judges on Earth are not the final judge of us all.
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Joined : 03 Apr 2008 Posts : 80

Subject: Re: Cops Acquitted in Bell Shooting trial Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:24 pm

Joined : 03 Apr 2008 Posts : 80

Slim, you going back and forth with me doesn't help the situation. So that cancels out your weak point. Laughing

Stop wasting keystrokes trying to drive a meaningless point to a bunch of anonymous screen names. Go organize a march or some shit. Go raise global awareness on racial injustice. Go challenge the FBI on the police brutality. Go protest against the police department. Let the world know all of this is going on, because they don't know.

Until you do, your gonna keep sounding disconnected to the urban black community. No different than a white person that thinks they are connected, but doesn't really know. Are you white? Take no offense, I'm 1/15th white. I'm cool with yall. But for real...

NWA did all that. Raised awareness & told their story to the world. Then protested & confronted the FBI. Ice Cube is militant, and was the center of the group. He let the entire world know what was going on in this country. What did you do other than refer to me as part of the problem for remembering a rap group that HAS done something?

You can save all that lilly flower, apple-tofu, shea butter rap.

Subject: Re: Cops Acquitted in Bell Shooting trial Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:18 pm

Efforts to raise global awareness, protest, etc. can only take us so far - especially if we constantly contradict those messages by showing the world that we don't respect ourselves and showing the world that we value black life so little that we make songs about destroying it. NWA did a great job of embodying that mixed, but ultimately hurtful, message. We're in a bad place if that's the best we can pull out at a time like this.

Joined : 03 Apr 2008 Posts : 80

Okay, wake your ass up then and stop waiting on me.

Be proactive in the real world. Get off the internet. Go write a poem or something. Cut the malarkey ~ D.Chapelle

Until then, your keystrokes aren't meaning much. I'm telling you to go do something. I respect those that have. But your not doing anything proactive. You're pointing out the negativity in little shit. Shaking your head, and wagging your finger at a small comment with good intentions behind it.

Do you see the difference between me & you? Sit for a few minutes and think about it.

Y'know, you don't have to pay my screen name so much attention.

Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 1617 Localisation : Illadelph

People. This ain't nothing new. Its a cycle of repetition. Next year it will be somebody else. A few boycotts, a day of wearing black. A protest or two. and then we will all be back to our lives, dashed by a few holidays to keep us from the ledge...sprinkled with the latest political hype...and then BOOM it will all happen again.

Some will be mad. Some won't be surprised. Some will project anger about the situation onto their peers (like A_Str8 and Duane Face), Some will pose solutions (which are really the same recycled solutions and speeches that appeal to our emotions), but nothing will really penetrate the system. The boys in blue will stay protected until one day when....

Its government. Its politics. Its racism. Its america. Its a cycle.

Joined : 08 Jan 2007 Posts : 406

the verdict was heart wrenching. just when you think that the trigger happy police are going to be brought to justice for a once... the fact that two of them are black puts a slightly different taste in your mouth. nonetheless, it's a bad taste.
everyone is entitled to their own ideas as to how we as a community should support Mr. Bell as well as his family while bringing a corrupt municipal organization back to the judicial table to answer for what they did to him. people are furious and not without a good reason.some people's suggestions and reasoning will be more confrontational than others.
but let's be real. putting ourselves in danger, taking on the caricatures and vinyl personas of studio gangsters whose viewpoints in the last decade are in opposition to what is needed today?

naw. hell naw.
but as chris rock would say, "I don't condone it, but I understand."
and NWA was a great musical ACT. they werent real. thats not my perception of them, it is their own description of themselves when the group split. (i.e. Dre' Day, Real Compton City G's, Alwayz Into Sumpthin')
unfortunately many of us will do what tra described. get hype, wear clothes of a designated color-whatever is deemed culturally and/or politically correct at the moment.
but next week it's back to the same ol' ish.... Embarassed

i hate to be the doubtful one but its like the 10,000 men at the liacourus.
oh, we were hype, deep and thick while in the building. the next week you could'nt get enough volunteers to play a pick up game of b-ball.
lets not stymie our progress even more by resorting to old, outdated and often risky behavior to prove our point. bad enough some of our peoples dont know the difference between studio threats and real life as it is.

Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 1617 Localisation : Illadelph

Joined : 08 Jan 2007 Posts : 406

true....

Joined : 23 Jan 2007 Posts : 181

NOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the real I don't expect much of the same faternity that emptied clips and reloaded on a man who was holding a wallet in his own doorway. The results are gonna push someone to change but not everybody. There's a saying about how black folks never get emotional enough to get in motion, or something to that effect. Most people probably don't even know about this case. If my memory serves me correctly, there was some other big shiny news story distracting most of the media at the time he was murdered. The whole case was messy. 'Somebody in the car had a gun' 'No they didn't' 'Yes they did.' 'It resulted from an altercation' 'No it didn't' 'There was a witness' 'No there wasn't' SMDH. With all that back and forth we all shouldl've known they were gonna get off. Takes more than empty rhetoric and misguided 'action' to rectify this unfair outcome.