Dirty Tactics?
Today I don’t want to talk about the Presidential election. There’s lots of time until the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, and all the behind-the-scenes stuff and the nasty campaigning can wait until another day.
Today I want to talk about another kind of dirty political tactics!
The New York Post and the New York Times both led with the story of a Queens judge who acquitted three detectives Friday, after they were charged in the shooting of Sean Bell on his wedding day, in a hail of 50 police bullets.
The judge said he didn’t buy the stories of Bell’s friends who were called as witnesses. Seems they kept changing their stories to suit the questions. And the fact that Bell was drunk and tried to run over one of the detectives with a car, striking the officer in the leg as he attempted to flee the scene, was apparently viewed as mitigating circumstances.
There’s a whole lot of other background information, including the fact that the Feds will now investigate, but something was fishy with the “totally innocent bridegroom, slaughtered mercilessly on his wedding day” story presented by the prosecution. He was driving his “fiancee’s” car at the time, the same “fiancee” who is the mother of his two children and uses Bell as her last name.
I’m not happy to see two children left without a father, but marriage rules and rituals sure have changed since I was young. It seems that the “fiancee” label no longer means what it used to.
There was shock and silence when the judge announced his verdict. But Al Sharpton is REAL unhappy. Yep! In fact, in spite of the fact that two of the three police officers were black, Sharpton (a spokesman for the Bell family, of course) called for street protests and said people should get themselves arrested, “whether it is on Wall Street, the judge’s house or at 1 Police Plaza.”
Yeah, Al’s at it again, drumming up publicity for himself by creating discord anywhere there’s a news story. Sound familiar?
A young man is dead. That is tragic. Two children are left fatherless. That is also tragic! But the real victims here are two helpless children, the police officers who responded to deadly attack with deadly force and are now being prosecuted for it, and the people who are being duped by Al Sharpton’s self-promoting publicity gimmicks.
Guess the rules for being a “Reverend” have changed since I was young also.
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