Feds called to investigate Bell
Rev. Al Sharpton met with a congressional delegation on Monday after a weekend of rallying and protesting. The next step: strategic planning and federal charges. Friday’s verdict acquitting all three NYPD officers charged in the death of Sean Bell has prompted some governmental officials to step in. The seven-member delegation included Rep. John Conyers from Michigan, Rep. Charles Rangel and Congressman Gregory Meeks. The group of congressional leaders, along with Sharpton, Nicole Paultre-Bell and the Bell family, came together to discuss the launch of a federal investigation into whether New York police officers violated the civil rights of...
Reaction to Bell verdict
Reaction to the acquittal of the detectives in the shooting death of Sean Bell and the wounding of his friends has been as widespread as it has been bitter and angry. The most emotional reaction came from the hundreds of people waiting for the verdict last Friday outside the Queens courthouse. “This is a travesty, a miscarriage of justice,” said one young lady who resisted all efforts to be consoled. “They murdered him once and now they’ve murdered him again.”
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“Oh my grandmother!” recalled the former NBA star of the Chicago Bulls in an ...
Obama Takes N.C., Clinton Squeaks by in Indiana
RALEIGH (NNPA) - Despite narrowing pre-primary polls, withering negative national headlines and a relentless assault by his fierce Democratic opponent, North Carolina put Sen. Barack Obama’s historic bid for the presidency firmly back in the driver’s seat Tuesday with a commanding 56-42 primary victory over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...
We must be better than we are
An unspeakable tragedy unfolds as we watch Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the rest of America kill off Senator Barack Obama while leaving bitterness and hatred as the residue of an American dream ...
Double Jeopardy Revisits Sean Bell et. al.
The naked and inexplicable, state-sponsored violence which erupted in front of Club Kalua in Queens on November 25, 2006, is still on the hunt. It reappeared on April 25, 2008 in the courtroom of Queens ...
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