Quite frankly, I'm disgusted to the point of feel nauseous. Not by the shooting itself - it is my opinion that if you live by the sword you should be prepared to die by the sword - but by the outrageous and ignorant reaction to it both by the black community of New York and most of the press.
For those who haven't yet heard about the case, you can read about it here.
Without having been there, nobody can be 100% sure of the facts. But a skeletal outline has been established over the last few days - that cops were on an undercover operation in a seedy strip join in Queens renowned for drugs, guns and prostitution, that Sean Bell and his friends had - quite recklessly in my opinion - decided to spend Bells last night as a single man (and indeed, as a living human being) in this same joint. We know that an undercover cop saw evidence of a gun inside the club and that when Bell and friends got into an altercation with some other men outside, they made threats of gun violence. When undercover cops attempted to stop this crap going down, Bell drove his car at one of them and his friend apparantly reached for his waistband.
This information apparantly wasn't enough to stop spineless wimp Mayor Bloomberg inexplicably declaring that the men had done nothing wrong that night. It also failed to prevent him from saying he believed the shooting was unjustified, even as he hypocritically warned others not to jump to conclusions before all the facts were in.
Let me make one thing clear. Black inner-city thug culture was responsible for Sean Bells death, not the NYPD. The only reason the cops on the scene reacted like they did was because they know what goes down in black New York and they're well aware of the very real dangers contained within. For anyone who isn't aware, this is what happens. Young blacks kill each other over nothing and what's more they do it at around 7 times the rate of whites. Such rates of violence put some American inner-cities above Iraq in terms of civilian deaths.
It is thus fair to characterize some neighborhoods of New York as war zones and to bear that in mind when considering what is and what isn't acceptable policing. The police had every reason to fear that Bell and his friends were about to commit a serious drive by shooting of the kind that happens all the time - a dispute in or outside a club, after which someone returns soon after and sprays innocent patrons with gunfire. They absolutely had to be stopped at that point and the premature notion that they were completely innocent of any bad intentions is delusional and naive bordering on the insane. There is every reason to accept the possibility that by firing upon Sean Bells car, cops saved the lives of innocent people.
Blacks and leftists will point out that when police shoot unarmed people dead by mistake, they are almost always black. But they won't entertain the idea that the reason this is so is because black thug culture simply places blacks into these situations far more frequently than anyone else. If Sean Bell and his friends hadn't gone to a desperately seedy club renowned for drugs and guns, gotton into yet another pointless thug altercation and given the explicit impression that they were about to commit a drive by shooting - then rammed a police officer and appeared to reach for their waistband - the cops wouldn't have fired 50 rounds at them and Sean Bell would be happily married today. But they did, and he's not.
So what of these 50 rounds? My thoughts are - what of it? If someone was being attacked with a car, if someone inside the car looked like they were going for a gun, if the bullets from one cop were coming out of the other side of the vehicle and led other cops to believe they were being fired upon from within, then 50 bullets sounds plausible to me. This is a war zone remember...and the men had given the impression they were about to commit a shooting. This is the kind of behaviour that gets you shot in the hood, it's as simple as that. If ghetto thugs (who are terrorists and should be treated as such) hadn't created an environment in which deadly shootouts can happen at any place at any time, then the cops reaction to Bells behaviour needn't have been so desperate.
So far, I have yet to hear any condemnation of the behaviour of these men in the press, nor of the culture which creates situations in which deadly force is tragic but unavoidable. The fact is that the NYPD should be considered soldiers in the line of duty and blessed for risking their lives every day of the week to make some of the most barbaric neighborhoods in America safer for the innocent people who have no choice but to live in them. How many black lives does the NYPD save every year? Every day they are shot at. They are spat at. Rocks are thrown at them from rooftops. They charge into buildings not knowing if they'll get out alive. They have vicious pitbulls sicced upon them, they are attacked with dirty needles. Every day they see the gory results of everyday ghetto savagery. Faces blown off. Hands blown off. Spilled guts. Shot babies. They're at war! Last Saturdays shooting wasn't a racist murder, it wasn't a corrupt abuse of power, it was an understandable reaction to a very real offensive threat which unfortunately took the life of a young man on his wedding day.
Sean Bell didn't deserve to die, of course he didn't - and it is heartbreaking and tragic especially given his wedding day - but to ignore the fact that his own behaviour contributed a lot to his own death is insane. A subway graffiti artist who trips onto the 3rd rail and gets fried doesn't deserve to die, but that doesn't mean he isn't responsible for his own death. Those rabidly indignant over Sean Bells shooting are incurably fixated upon the lefts "oppressed/oppressor" model in which everything must be described in terms of an evil oppressor oppressing a helpless innocent. In such a model, those identified as "oppressed" cannot ever be blamed for their actions, even if it means conciously ignoring inconvenient facts.
The behaviour of Al Sharpton, Charles Barron and other black leaders has been nothing short of outrageous. The careers of Sharpton and Barron depend on them keeping the poor black population of New York in a perpetual state of anger, resentment and paranoia. Without that atmosphere, both men would be nothing. Charles Barrons thinnly veiled threat of civil violence would have spelled the end of the career of a white councillor - not so a black councillor who knows that black leaders can say whatever the hell they like and be spared the consequences.
As Sharpton and Barron spewed their beloved venom and as crowds of black people marched with signs reading "stop the violence", I was immediately led to wonder where these people were with their anger when a 2 year old baby was shot to death strapped into his car seat by ghetto thugs playing at cowboys and indians or when a 30 year old man shoots dead a 3 year old girl in a deadly tantrum, or when an innocent man is shot walking to work in Manhattan or when 2 cops are coldy executed in a senseless act of savage barbarism in Staten Island or when Busta Rhymes' bodyguard is pointlessly murdered during the filming of a rap video and he refuses to put the family out of their misery by telling cops whodunnit.
Well, not suprisingly today has brought a fresh batch of ignorance and inanity to the table in the name of Sean Bell. As pandering leftist journalists continue to misrepresent the incident for their own political ends, the black community of New York and everyone associated with the "victims" seem intent on convincing the world that trying to deal with the menace of black thuggery itself is a racist endeavor. The simple fact is, these people believe they should not be policed and subject to the law.
Take today. Police have every reason to suspect that the man seen running away from the car was taking a gun away from the scene. When Guzman said "yo, go get my gun" was he lying? I doubt it. Black thugs make these kind of threats all the time, and carry them out. Even if there was no "fourth person" and no gun in the car at any time that night, the possibility that the men were on their way to pick up a gun from somewhere else was something the police had to act on.
The investigation into the shooting must determine whether or not there was a gun and a fourth man at the scene - so how are cops supposed to do this? They have to find the guy. Investigations like this invariably turn up other criminals who are then arrested for other offences - in this case, they arrested 4 men and recovered a loaded handgun with the serial number scratched off, which means one more illegal handgun out of the hands of violent ghetto thugs and subsequent lives saved.
Not that this has any bearing on the pandering opinion of leftist Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez, who apparently has trouble understanding why on earth cops would possibly raid addresses in a legitimate investigation into the death of a young man.
Thus, in a bizarre twist almost as inexplicable as the original 50-shot fusillade, the NYPD is raiding homes and picking up young blacks in southeastern Queens in an all-out effort to locate an alleged "fourth man," a man investigators say was at the scene of the shooting and fled.Just how naive do you have to be to call the raiding of homes in a police investigation "inexplicable" or "bizarre"? And why the phrase "picking up young blacks"? Is anyone else as stunned and disgusted as me with the desperate and shameful attempts of leftists to squeeze every last possible drop of racial tension out of this story? Does Gonzalez seriously believe that cops should forbid proper passage of an investigation just because they are dealing with black people? There is no doubt in my mind that the left, along with racial demagogues like Al Sharpton and Charles Barron, are 100% responsible for perpetuating racial tension and ghetto ignorance in this country. As long as the left has its exploitative, parasitic tentacles around the ghetto black population of America, they will remain ignorant and hopeless.
The trouble with people like Gonzalez is that they're eternal patsies. They don't even let themselves toy with the idea that ghetto folk will simply lie through their teeth en masse when it comes to their little "us and them" games with police - even in the face of the evidence against them. So when he reports
"If you don't tell us what we want to hear, you know, you can get five years," she says one cop told her.it is clear that Gonzalez believes her. A woman from a community in which cop hating is virtually a religion? Telling the truth about her interaction with the cops? Seriously, what are the chances? What makes people like Gonzales so reluctant to simply put the crack pipe down for one minute and think about reality - you know, the factual correctness as opposed to the political correctness? Sharpton says the difference between last weekend's shooting and the infamous killing of Amadou Diallo is
"With Diallo, we only had the testimony of the policemen in the foyer. This time, we have seven or eight people who witnessed this shooting."
Yes indeed. Seven or eight New York ghetto blacks who have been taught from childhood that when the chips are down against whitey, all negroes must stick together. The trouble is, you can't bring up this aspect of black ghetto culture in court in determining whether or not a witnesses account is credible. There's your political correctness for you again. A black man has been killed by police. Of course the cop didn't identify himself before he started shooting, of course the thug didn't swing a scooter at cops last summer. Ghetto blacks like this are unlikely to pass up the chance to:
- Exonerate a fellow ghetto black person
- Stick one to the cops
Now, in an unbelievable development, organized ghetto thugs The New Black Panthers have organized a protest rally that they have advertised will be attended by The Bloods and The Crips. Ah, black New York - don't you just love it? The police have said they will attend in force. Looks like some goooooooood watchin!
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