50 Shots Go Off Equals Police Not Guilty!

Call me stupid, but I always thought that if someone shoots and kills someone for no justifiable reason that person should go to jail for a period of time, no matter who that person is. Well I guess I am a bit crazy because the police that shot fifty times at Sean Bell and his friends as they were leaving a strip club got found not guilty by the judge. How can you find three police officers not guilty for using excessive force and shooting at someone fifty times, right before Sean Bell's wedding no less?

I for one am tired of the police thinking that they are above the law all the time, then always getting off from crimes they have committed. Sean Bell did not do anything wrong, and once again the police screws over someone who is of African-American ethnicity. The police need to know that we as African-Americans are not going to put up with their crooked ways and the screwing over of our race time and time again. We need to put our foot down and say enough is enough. Unfortunately, it is a shame that we lost yet another human-being, someone that could have really been productive in society, to brings us to this understanding. Now Sean Bell will never be able to grow old with his future wife, or watch his children grow up.

I too have been harassed by the police countless times. I have almost been thrown in jail for something I had no idea about, and when it was proven it was not me there was no apology or explanation by the white police officer, he just sat in his car and pulled off. It is not just the white police officers, however, it is also our own race, African-American. I was walking back home from the library and got pulled over by two black police officers searching for a guy that stole clothes and valuables from people. I knew I did not fit the description and they knew it too, but they still wanted to arrest me, just because I am a young, black kid with braids in my hair.

The police have been crooked and screwing our race over for years. Now they have our own people doing the same thing to us. I can't even walk down the street going to my college courses without the police following my every move and checking me out to fit a description. The person that they are looking for might look nothing like me, but as long as I am young man black I fit the description. Unfortunatley, I know now why people take things in their own hands, because the majority of the police are not going to do anything about things that happen to us, just call it another black statistic. We as a race are fed up with the police brutality and are not going to tolerate it for much longer. I am sorry for the mother of Sean Bell's children, and that justice again has not been served. And it all came at Sean Bell's expense.