Wednesday - May 07, 2008

Al Sharpton Gets Arrested

NEW YORK (WABC)—Protesters are on New York streets objecting the verdicts given in the Sean Bell shooting trial. Reverend Al Sharpton has been arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the protests.

Eyewitness news has learned NYPD has made dozens of arrests, including Rev. Al Sharpton as a result of the protests. Also arrested were Bell’s fiancee Nicole Bell, Trent Benefield, and Joseph Guzman.

“Today we want motorists to think about how three people were shot 50 times by officers,” said Rev. Sharpton.

The following disruptions occurred due to the protests.
There was large crowd in front of Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side. Traffic is blocked on Park Row approach.

Protesters were arrested in the intersection and being put into a police bus.

Protesters had blocked access to the Manhattan Bridge on Brooklyn side.

Protestors had blocked access to the Midtown Tunnel on East Side. There have been 19 arrests there.

The Holland Tunnel has reopened on the Manhattan side.

Protesters had blocked access to the Triborough Bridge in East Harlem. Eyewitness News is told at least 30 people were arrested there.

Protesters had blocked access to the Queensborough Bridge on Upper East Side. 29 arrests were made at the Queensborough Bridge location.

While the demonstrations are expected to be peaceful-- they are also expected to put pressure on federal authorities.

Protestors have hit the streets this afternoon. This event is designed to get out their message.

“It’s about multiple gatherings to show real concern, so the federal government will have to deal with the public outcry and say, “wow people are so upset in New York”...feeling the civil rights are at risk here, that we have to look into this in a serious way,” Rev. Al Sharpton said.

They want federal prosecutors to take over the Bell case after the acquittal of the three detectives involved in the shooting.

Six key sites, five in Manhattan, are the targets for the protest, which is designed unabashedly to lead to some arrests.

At Police Headquarters, hundreds of protesters gathered in the plaza. They marched to the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge and kneeled to be arrested.

At the House of the Lord Church on Atlantic Avenue, protesters gathered inside. They marched to the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge to disrupt trafffic.

If you aren’t familiar with the Bell case, it’s another one of those “NY City cops shoot a black guy, therefore it’s murder” situations, in which the number of rounds fired is amazing, and nearly more important than the shooting itself. (That the guy Bell was only hit twice is mostly ignored.) Ignored is that Bell and his pals were totally wasted, and tried repeatedly to run the cops over. As an attorney for the Bell family said in response to the report, “No matter what his blood-alcohol level was, he’s a victim.”

Mr. Bell’s supporters say that the case is another in a line of police shootings of unarmed black men that have occurred in recent years, and is emblematic of a pattern of abuse of police power in the black community.

Two of the officers charged in the Bell case, Detective Isnora and Detective Marc Cooper, are black. (ed note: but they’re po-lice BLUE before they’re black, right?)

The case may offer the judge the possibility of what in legal circles is sometimes called “splitting the baby,” named for King Solomon’s proposed solution to the case of two women who claimed to be the same child’s mother.

In a criminal trial, splitting the baby is to find the defendant a little bit guilty and a little bit innocent, which tends to please the interests of neither the victim nor the accused.

In the verdict in the Bell shooting, the baby is an eight-count indictment against three detectives, and there are plenty of places for Solomon to cut.

On Nov. 25, 2006, after leaving his bachelor party at the Club Kalua in Jamaica, Queens, Mr. Bell tried to go back inside to retrieve a hat and was confronted by a stranger.

Detective Isnora and others were working at the club in an undercover operation, and Detective Isnora said that during the exchange that followed, he heard Joseph Guzman, a friend of Mr. Bell’s, say, “Get my gun.”

Detective Isnora followed Mr. Bell, Mr. Guzman and another friend, Trent Benefield, to Mr. Bell’s car, where he said he showed his police badge, clipped to his collar, and shouted, “Police! Don’t move!” Mr. Bell drove his Nissan Altima into Detective Isnora’s leg and into an unmarked minivan driven by Detective Michael Oliver. Mr. Bell backed up and hit a gate, and then hit the minivan again.

The officers opened fire — with Detective Oliver firing 31 shots — killing Mr. Bell and wounding his friends.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/07/2008 at 04:36 PM   
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