The history of American police has been a thorn to many on the black and latino communities. This is not "bitterness" but factual in proof of the recent trial of the police officers who murdered Sean Bell in NYC. While the media continues to show the sound bytes of Rev. Wright's sermon and whether or not Barack Obama sees him as a spiritual advisor the verdict cameback not guilty in another senseless murder. We have to speak out on injustices worldwide and not be silent because it doesn't effect us directly.
Bell died at age 23 in the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2006, after a squad of undercover police detectives conducted a drug and prostitution sting at Club Kalua in the Jamaica section of Queens. Bell was killed, and two friends were seriously wounded when they were struck in a hail of 50 bullets fired by five NYPD officers, who said they believed that the men tried to retrieve a gun from the car Bell was driving. But all three men were unarmed and no weapon was recovered from the scene.
After Bell got into his car, he refused to stop when one of the plainclothes detectives flashed his badge, and then he ran his Nissan Altima into an unmarked minivan being driven by one of the other officers.
The three cops fired more than 50 bullets at Bell—who, the defense argued, they thought was carrying a gun—and his two friends, both of whom were wounded. None of the men was armed.
Ice Cube—who as a founding member of N.W.A. rapped against police brutality on the seminal "F--k the Police"— called the verdict "just another example that the justice system in America views a black life as worthless."
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