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04/27/2008: "Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals"

Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the
Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the
acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed
a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.

"We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."

Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell -- a black man -- and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.

[ Imagine if all the officers involved were white! Presumably the justice system is seen as being against the interests of blacks and that's where the blame is being laid. They need their own state so they don't have this problem. ]

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