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3 NYPD officers cleared in 50-shot killing of groom-to-be

They waited for hours, singing spirituals, praying and chanting for justice. In a flash, the crowd gathered outside a Queens courthouse Friday erupted in anger and grief.

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waggy
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Apr 25, 2008
 
sickening. the cops murder someone and get away with it.
alicia brown
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Apr 25, 2008
 
oh my God, this needs to stop and stop now there is no reason at all why those officers should be walking around free and Sean not here. they shoud be in prison with the other killers they are no better; and just because they carry a badge does not give them the right to distroy lives exspecially a bright young man with his whole life ahead of him and now his beautiful baby girl dosn't have her daddy and the officers get to go home to their family why not sean? this should have never happened 50 shots? what?:( Peace and Blessings to the family.
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Apr 25, 2008
 
If a average citizen shot 50 rounds they would lock them up and throw away the key?I do not care what race. creed if you use excessive force as an officer you should be held responsible. How is it even possible to continue shoot rounds without ever SEEING a gun. Makes no sense at all and people wonder why no one trusts cops or the law. WHY ARE ALL COPS ALLOWED TO GET OFF FOR THESE VIOLENT ACTS!
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Apr 25, 2008
 
what a disgrace
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Apr 25, 2008
 
How about Al going after the bench Judge since there was no Jury.

These Judges need impeached as they are racist and destroying America.

They side for the rich and very political side.

Please investigate and see if he ever received campaign contribution's from the defendants side and any dam thing you can get on him because this was unjust.

The Judge is the persecutor in America now.
La Policia Sympatico
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Apr 25, 2008
 
Those who are least trained with their weapons are the ones most likely to employ them first with the worst results, those who are the most highly trained are the ones to employ them only as a last resort and with precise results.

No 20/20 here, no judgment here, wasn't there didn't see it, just an observation documented in historical fact.
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#8
Apr 25, 2008
 
Why does everyone assume the cops are guilty? Isn't that what lead to their aquital ... the various stories made up to assign blame. Maybe if everyone was not so gung ho to hang these cops out to dry, people would be more sympathetic to your cause.
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Apr 25, 2008
 
I have a hard time imagening that the cops were looking to shoot a black guy and get away with it.

I'm sickened by the fact that this has been turned, yet again, into some race issue.

The dudes were hanging out in a shady club. The cops asked them to stop their vehicle but instead the try to flee and crash into a cop car. I mean c'mon.
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Apr 25, 2008
 
How do you shoot 31 shots at someone in a city like New York. It is just another reason why we need gun control. Get guns off the streets and out of the hands of the cops. This is not the wild west. This is the 21st century and high time we teach people to use their brains first, especially persons in positions of authority and responcibility.
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Apr 25, 2008
 
See, FED UP is a prime example ... one person did not fire 50 shots, it was collective, from I think 3 ... there are so many false stories running rampant for people who just want the cops to be guilty.
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Apr 25, 2008
 
The only relevant thing to look at is the articulation of the point of imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to a responding cop or another. If the articulation is reasonable, so was the shooting. The only thing that would change the point of articulation is the responding cops level of training.
Takayama Ukon
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Apr 25, 2008
 
Fifty (50) bullets sounds like a little too much 'justice.'
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Apr 25, 2008
 
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!
EVEN WITHOUT THE WITNESSES' TESTIMONIES IT'S OBVIOUS IT WAS MURDER.
THEY SHOULD HAVE ALL GONE TO PRISON.
50 SHOTS? FOR 1 MAN? THAT IS EVIDENTLY WRONG.
IF HE EVEN DESERVED TO DIE, 1 SHOT IS ENOUGH, well delivered.

i can't post in capslock???
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Apr 25, 2008
 
waggy wrote:
sickening. the cops murder someone and get away with it.
See, you people are twisted. I reasonably doubt that those cops were there to murder Bell. Maybe you know something other people don't, or maybe its just another fanatic statement...
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Apr 25, 2008
 
These thugs were not shot while having a picnic in the park. They were drunk miscreants leaving a strip club, acting dangerously threatening, and ramming a cop car. It's unfortunate that the man died, but it's lucky that no innocent citizens were harmed by the recklessness of the dead man and his friends.

I would rather live in a society where the occasion drunk and unruly troublemaker gets shot dead than one where our cops have to worry about going to jail for doing their job.
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#18
Apr 25, 2008
 
Judge should be taken off the bench.
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#19
Apr 25, 2008
 
under cover cops?
unmarked police van?
I wouldn't stop either.
If the cops were investigating prostitution why were they going after these guys for a comment they overheard? Plainclothes cops shooting so much they thought they were being shot at when they had the only guns? With friends like these ...
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Apr 25, 2008
 
Complete Crap wrote:
This Bell case is sh*t those worthless F'in cops found no gun in the vehicle never identified themselves as police and then fired 50 shots at a car load of innocent people. I mean seriously how does anything else in this case matter. That right there should lock these stupid f*ckin cops up for life. I wish I could go shoot all there children so they can see what it is like. These f*cks were allowed to commit coldblooded murder I mean jesus christ over 50 shots fired and your excuse is I thought I heard one of them say go get my gun. Yet there was no gun and the lying cops are automatically believed in the right because the vicims are poor and have been in trouble with the law before. If I lived in New York I would be rioting instead people will just sit there and whine about it while the police are allowed to take away your human rights. Stuff like this makes America and Americans sicken me. I mean holy christ how much are we willing to take. Between crap like this and Bush's phonetapping and incarceration of citizens without a trial not to mention the torture rape and murder of poor people in other countries by our armed forces and then hiding it all from Americans. We need to stand up and do something about this crap.
REVOLUTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.
LOL, I knew it ... it's all Bush's fault!!!!!
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#22
Apr 25, 2008
 
Not sure what charges were brought against them... But walking free is not okay. It says they thought they were being shot at because of breaking glass and tire shreeking?? Uuumm... I have heard a lot of glass and tires shreaking and never thought I was being shot at. Kind of hard to mistake those two.

Cops should not be held to a lower standard than an average joe citizen because they were on the clock. If average joe had been the one who fired into a car full of unarmed men with no proof, nor ever seeing they had a gun, much less having it pointed at them in a threat, he would be headed to jail right now.

No, I do not think this is a race issue. This is police using excessive force and getting away with it. I do not see how there was no guily count at all.. If not murder, at lest man slaughter...
Ted Haubrich
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Apr 25, 2008
 
Clearly these officers were inept. I could see emptying one round if one truly thought the man was armed and going to shoot, but after emptying one round and reloading without having any fire returned I would think the officers could figure out they are not being shot at.
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