Sean Bell: Dead again

April 28, 2008

BLACK vs. WHITE? MAYBE NOT SO MUCH…

Maybe minorities tend to use the race card too quickly. A young man, Sean Bell, celebrating his bachelor’s party at a strip club in Jamaica, Queens in New York was fatally shot and killed. The people who killed Sean Bell include none other than (3) NYPD officers (2 BLK and 1 WHT)

Was equal justice served across all boards? Regardless of title or race, do the facts present themselves that man A deliberately killed man B? Was man A provoked to not only shoot once but continue to shoot until the death of man B? Was it out of fear? If fear, why did man A walk towards man B? Did man B purposely do something to attract the attention of man A? Is it justified to use 50 bullets against man B without seeing any arms in his possession? Yes, Sean Bell was found to be unarmed.

“My mother always has to look outside her window and worry about us because of the cops,” said Ray Powell, 23, a Queensborough Community College student who was at the memorial on Friday. “If it was me, if I shot a gun 30 times, I would get the death penalty.” – quote from NY Times article

for more details read articles online, some below:

NY Times, LA Times, Newsday.com, Justice for Sean.net

*Note: In all my blogs I will try to refrain from adding details that can be found in recent articles as this is at the very least to keep you thinking from both perspectives. Please post your thoughts.


Promote justice or your own people

April 19, 2008

I Am Not the Enemy

I put people in jail because they break the law, not because I’m a puppet of
a racist judicial system.
by Felicia J. Nu’Man

http://www.newsweek.com/id/130604

Would you stand up for someone that you don’t know just because they are “one of your own”?

…maybe if you have the same ideals and morals

…maybe if you like the same types of food or lead the same lifestyle

..what about about a judge that doesn’t know anything besides that you are a criminal that must be sentenced for your crime…

…does the judge have an entitlement to punish only those that are not the same color….

We must maintain and promote judicial equality in America and Judge Felicia J. Nu’Man does just that. I commend her for her continued work.