Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.
"We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."
It is too bad that in this day and age there is still such injustice in how the law deals with cop on black violence.
I cannot imagine if this had been a young white unarmed male who had been shot to death on the eve of his wedding that the outcome would not have been dramatically different.
Those in power protect their own instead of the ones they are supposed to serve.
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