NYC Cops Acquitted in Sean Bell Shooting
Three New York City cops have been acquitted of killing Sean Bell on what would have been his wedding day. Detectives Gescard Isnora, Michael Oliver and Marc Cooper put 50 bullets into Bell in the early hours of the morning outside of a Queens strip club called the Kalua Cabaret.
Bell had run into one of the cops with his car after the officer had told him to raise his hands. The detectives believed Bell and his friends were going back to their car to retrieve a gun to shoot some clubbers they had gotten into a dispute with.
Detectives Gescard Isnora, 29, and Michael Oliver, 36, faced up to 25 years behind bars for manslaughter charges, while Det. Marc Cooper, 40, faced a year in jail on reckless endangerment charges.
“Murderers! Murderers!” many in the crowd shouted as the officers exited the building. Others chanted “PBA, PBA, KKK! KKK!” while some circled in an orderly protest in front of the court house.
“We’re grateful that this court ruled on the evidence presented in this case, but in this case there are no winners or losers, we still have to live with a death.” Patrick J. Lynch, President of the New York City Police Officer’s Benevolent Association, said in a statement to the media outside the courthouse.
Bell’s fiancee Nicole Paultre stormed out of the court room upon hearing the verdict. Protests took place outside the Queens courtroom after the ruling by Judge Arthur Cooperman.
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Only in America. What we need are more guns, if he and his friends had been armed they might have only got off 10 shots tops ….
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We call ouselves a “1st world country” with Laws that protect us. When you strip back the venire, you will, as always, find something there that you wernt supposed to know about. In America, you are not supposed to know about the immoral and corupt NAZI like actions that law officers use, display and fortify each and every day we as a society allow them. Officers sworn to uphold the law, took the law into there own hands and exicuted a man THEY say had a gun or at least say “They thought he had a gun”. Having found no weapon of any sort, they killed him and were aquited. If you should accidently kill someone while driving, say, you thought he was stopping so you continued thru the intersection, you are found GUILTY of manslaughter… But if you have a badge and mistakenly think the poor inocent and above all…. UN ARMED VICTIM has a gun…and you shoot 50 times (someone had to RELOAD) You are aquited so that you can repeat the crime or at the very least.. go home and sleep peacefully at night. SHAME ON US for allowing such crimes to go scott free! I am WHITE and I am ASHAMED! Ashamed that a corupt and disfunctional system is allowed to continue on it’s way like it is a nationaly sindicated sit-com. Laughter… not in this house… ANGER only lives in my hart now and the deep shame that says that I am an AMERICAN and I have to live with that.