Just so you know, I bet 3 total acquittals. Not because I agree, but because that’s what I expected.
This is going to be one of those cases that compels catharsis, so knock yourselves out. But consider this:
The Queens District Attorney was conflicted throughout this case.
Cops as defendants win when no one else will.
Life is rarely as clear when it’s happening as it is when we talk about it afterward.
The burden of proof is on the prosecution, not the defense.
Does this verdict reflect a botched prosecution, or the sort of trial that all defendants should be given but only cop-defendants receive? Is the judge to be faulted for reaching a verdict that the prosecution failed to prove its case, when that is how most of the observers felt as well?
And finally, could a jury have gotten past the 50 bullets?
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This verdict made me feel like I did on 9/11 all over again with the sad exception that the nation is not together this time. When will this 9/11 feelings end? Will there be more? Let us pray that the good lord would allow things to happen that would heal and bring recovery to the hurt, by helping remove the pain from the side and increasing its experiences of abundance, growth, and justice that would yield profits and gains as needed by all of the faithful in the favored regard, so that we might all be blessed accordingly, in Jesus name Amen.
None of you, or us, really believed these cops were going to be found guilty
of anything, did you / we? The trial was a set-up from the start. Tomorrow-
we’ll chant “No justice.. No Peace” and that will be it! Sure, our feet will hurt a tad bit from the marching and maybe the throat will be sore too, but that’s how far we’ll take it. We won’t do anything else. This City I love so much will kill you in a heartbeat and nothing ever happens, no one is held to account, especially not the police. The public chanting dies down, the cops go
about their lives, see them smirking walking into court? Boy, they LOOKED
worried. Nothing will ever change this City, unless the people really rise up.
The days of King and X are long gone, the blood of innocent, unarmed black men
mean not a damn thing in OUR city, where is the justice for Amadou Diallo?
Patrick Dorismond? Timothy Stansbury Jr.? and Sean Bell? By spring of 2010 the
cops will kill again, like clockwork – you can count on it. What will we do?? In the movie “Untouchables” the question is asked, “What are you prepared to do?”… No Justice…No…..
You can get killed just for living in… your American skin!