Re: **** tha police

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:23:25 -0400, "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>In article <nko414d3p9flid6of7tmuqfsentgqkvn6n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Les Albert <lalbert1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> D.F. Manno wrote:
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>> >From the N.Y. Times:
>> 
>> >> 3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting
>> >> By MICHAEL WILSON
>> >> Published: April 26, 2008
>> >> Three detectives were found not guilty Friday on all charges in
>> >> the shooting death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50
>> >> police bullets outside a club in Jamaica, Queens, in November
>> >> 2006.Š
>> 
>> ><http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/nyregion/26BELL.html>
>> >Just one more reason - as if one was needed - not to trust cops.
>> >Has a cop _ever_ been convicted of killing a black man in this
country?
>>
>> Yes:
>> 
>>
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D91131F937A35756C0A966958
>> 260
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>That's one.
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>> and
>> 
>> http://archives.cnn.com/1999/US/12/13/volpe.sentencing.02/index.html
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>Who did Volpe kill?
> 
>> I'm sure there are many more but you can do the searching.  
>> 
>> In today's verdict don't blame the police, blame the judge.
>
>Oh? How many of the 50 shots did the judge fire?


Your complaint was not about cops killing black men; your complaint
was that a cop has never been *convicted* for killing a black man in
this country.  My response was that it was the judge who acquitted the
cops who fired the shots.  The judge had the power to convict them but
chose not to.  And somehow you intrepret the outcome of the trial as,
"Just one more reason - as if one was needed - not to trust cops.".  I
wouldn't trust that judge.

Les