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News out of New York City came yesterday that the justice department will not pursue a civil rights case against the officers who shot Sean Bell.  If you remember Sean Bell, he was a 23-year-old black man, who was killed while his friends were seriously injured outside Kalua Cabaret in Queens in 2006 as they were leaving his bachelor party by car.  I, for one, am not shocked.  I wasn’t shocked when the officers were acquitted and I’m not shocked that the justice department will not seek a civil rights case now. If they didn’t find them guilty in state court why would the justice department go through the trouble of trying them in a federal court? After all, whose rights were violated? Well for one, Sean Bell’s rights were violated, he lost his right to life.  Paultre Bell, his then to be wife, lost her right to the pursuit of happiness with her husband.  His children lost their right to grow up with a father.  So I ask again whose rights were violated?  The officers who shot at Bell fifty times were acquitted, but their rights are secured.

They still have their right to life and liberty.   I guess it all goes back to the question posed a couple days ago ‘Are We An Endangered Specie?’

I guess the black people are.  While killing ourselves we continue to be killed by others.  Violence against ourselves and violence towards ourselves.  The names of those that have circum to violence is as repetitious as our abc’s, Derrion Albert, Kevin Miller, Trevor Casey, Brian Scott, Derrick Stamps, the list of names is endless.  If we can learn anything from the Sean Bell case, it’s that justice is definitely blind and that no one is held accountable for this brother’s death is a mystery to me.  I’m hopeful that justice will be served one day, I am reminded of the efforts of Myrlie Evers the widow of murdered civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, when she received justice forty years after her husband was gunned down. I am hopeful that one day justice will be rewarded to Nicole Paultre Bell.  Hopeful to her children, hopeful to Sean Bell’s mother and father and hopeful it won’t take forty years.

POLITICS AS USUAL @DaRealShaka