Cops found NOT GUILTY for the shooting of Sean Bell

Minority Report

It's 9:30am and I am walking out of a meeting I had with my distributor, on my way to the car, when all of a sudden I'm stopped by the office building security guard. He shakes his head with disgust and whispers, "They Got Off". It wasn't until a few moments later that I realized he was talking about the Sean Bell case. The verdict came in at 9:00am, a judge acquitted three Police Department detectives of all charges. For those of you that don't know, Sean Bell, 23, was killed just before about 4:00am on his wedding day, November 25, 2006. He and several friends were leaving a bachelor party at the Kaula Club in Queens. According to CNN.com, some undercover cops were in the area and had been investigating complaints of guns, drugs, and prostitution. Witnesses say that an argument was started inside the club with the undercover cops and the guys attending the Bachelor party, claiming that it had nothing to do with the investigation of the guns, drugs and prostitution. When Bell and his friends went outside, the undercover cops approached them again. The cops claimed that after that they thought Bell was going to his car to get a gun. The cops then began shooting and put a total of 50 bullets in Bell. Later on it was discovered that there were no weapons found on Bell. An unarmed man, shot for NO REASON. According to CNN.com, it was stated that forensic and scientific evidence presented during the seven-week trial contradicts the testimony of prosecution witnesses.

All I can say, is that the streets are talking and it isn't pretty. As I'm riding home from my meeting, the people around me start saying that this summer is going to be bad and that people are going to take justice into their own hands. As people continue to have conversation about the matter, they become more angry and someone yells, "The conclusion of this case now gives cops the ok to shoot innocent people without cause, just one more thing to add to the reasons we are fed up with our government". These words caused me to shiver a little and I start to think, "when people start to take justice into their own hands, the streets become an unsafe place. Our government is suppose to provide justice and instead they are starting more wars. Is racism and profiling becoming no longer hidden, but becoming more blatant again as it was in the past? Is the African American community going to take action?" These are all of the things that ran through my mind as I set there and looked around at all of the angry and unhappy people on the subway back to Harlem.

Ladies and Gents, if you are going to take a stance on this issue or on all of the racism occurring, make sure that it is a peaceful movement and not riots that will only give them what they want and expect.

This has been a Minority Report by the Socialite...