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'50 Shots' police officers indicted on manslaughter charges · 626 days ago
The police officers who fired 50 shots into the car of unarmed victim Sean Bell killing him and wounding two others were indicted for first-degree and second-degree manslaughter as well as other charges on Friday, three months after the crime took place.
From the New York Times:
Two New York City police detectives were charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Sean Bell, the unarmed 23-year-old black man who died in a burst of 50 police bullets, the Queens District Attorney, Richard Brown, said at a news conference today.The eight-count indictment was handed up by a grand jury on Friday and unsealed this morning. In it, Det. Michael Oliver, 35, who fired his pistol 31 times, and Det. Gerard Isnora, 28, an undercover officer who fired 11 shots, are charged with both first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in Mr. Bell’s death, Mr. Brown said.
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Hundreds protest police shooting of Sean Bell · 713 days ago
From Reuters
Leaders of New York’s black community have vowed protests until they see justice for Bell and have already held two rallies, including a march by several thousand people down Fifth Avenue on Saturday.Organizers said another protest was being planned for the
United Nations headquarters in January.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said it was “unacceptable or inexplicable” that 50 shots were fired, while Kelly has set up a panel to review the police department’s undercover operations and policy.
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Papoose - Change Gon' Come (50 Shots) lyrics and mp3 download · 717 days ago
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Lyrics to Papoose – Change Gon’ Come (50 Shots):
RIP to Sean Bell
RIP to Kathryn Johnston
RIP to Amadou Diallo
The list goes on
Change gon’ come
No justice, no peace
Another black man shot dead in the streets
Make the whole hood feel sad, its sadness
But we feel mad, its madness
Mike Oliver said his gun jammed, he the main one
12 year veteran and dont know how to use a gun, think we dumb?
If ya clips was loaded to the top, and your gun jammed, how ya fire 31 shots?
Say you shot at the man, cause you thought he was strapped
But you killed a man cause you thought he was shooting back
Black America, what type of garbage is that
The police academy arming these fools with gats
If your reason was, you thought he carry a gun
That mean you killed him for nothing, cause he aint have one
Im sick and tired of being sick and tired son
Hope change get here before the revolution come!
Patrick Lynch is an asshole, he siding with the cops
He said they wasn’t wrong for firin’ all ‘em shots
He said if they felt a threat they ‘posed to pop
and they should continue shooting until the threat stop
The nerve he got, another word said, they should continue shooting until Sean Bell was dead
Bloomberg spoke, but we expect him to
He said 50 shots was unacceptable
And he said nobody know how to feel and be another race
They don’t respect that, they call it haemoth disgrace
Press conference infront of everybody, he responded faster than his predecessor Mayor Giuliani
Some say he spoke it illogically, he got some better manners
but lets see if we get some better policy
Don’t fall for it, its all tricknology
Hope the change get here, before they try to body me
The law states a cop is not permitted to shoot at a moving car
It don’t make a difference if its coming straight at him, cause if they shoot the driver a 4000 pound car could cause more drama
But when i heard Charles Barron speak, I believe
he said, “If we gotta bleed, then others gotta bleed”
Five cops placed on administrative leave
But they murdered a father, left behind two seeds
Why was the cops in the club, drinkin’ a bottle?
Why was the 41 shots shot at Diallo?
John Podhoretz from the New York Post
Wanna know why Bloomberg and Al Sharpton still close
I read his article, he question it
Why was Bloomberg surrounded by African-Americans?
I guess the loss of a life was imagined
Called Sharpton a race-hating-cop-hater
Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang
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Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang
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Comment [1]
Una canción del rap llamó ya "50 tiros" · 729 days ago
Estaba en reinas cuando ocurrió esto que tiraba. Mientras que caminé a través de la ciudad la mañana próxima, vi títulos del periódico sobre ella en cada caja del periódico. Éste es una de las historias más ridículas y más tristes de la brutalidad del policía que he oído en un rato. ¿Cincuenta tiros encendidos en los sospechosos quiénes no tenían ninguna arma, y estaban bajo investigación al lado de una vice escuadrilla del crimen? No cuido qué clase de droga/crimen de la prostitución ella estaba potencialmente implicada adentro, vaciando sus clips en el coche cuando no se encendió ningunos tiros siempre detrás son indignantes. Incluso Michael Bloomberg, alcalde de la ciudad, está llamando éste como él es. El rapper Papoose de Brooklyn lanzó una pista llamada “50 tiros” que ventilaron en la estación 97 calientes del rap este fin de semana.
Del Newsday.com:
Entre los sonidos del tiro y las muestras de la obra clásica de la civil-derecho-era del SAM Cooke del cantante del alma “un cambio va a venir,” las tomas de Papoose tiene como objetivo a policía.“If your reason was you thought he carried a gun / That means you killed him for nothing because he ain’t had one,”
él raps. (“Si era tu razón pensaste que él llevó un arma/que los medios tú te mataron para nada porque lo no tienen uno”)Pero Papoose tiene cierta alabanza templada para alcalde Michael Bloomberg, por lo menos con respecto a su precursor, Rudy Giuliani: “He got some better manners / But let’s see if we get some better policy.” (“Él consiguió algunas maneras mejores / pero dejarnos ve si conseguimos una cierta política mejor.”)
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Already a rap song called "50 Shots" · 731 days ago
I was in Queens when this shooting took place. As I walked through the city the next morning, I saw newspaper headlines about it in every newspaper box. This is one of the most ridiculous and sad stories of police brutality I’ve heard in a while. Fifty shots fired at suspects who had no weapons, and were under investigation by a vice crime squad? I don’t care what kind of drug/prostitution crime they were potentially involved in, emptying their clips into the car when no shots were ever fired back is outrageous. Even Michael Bloomberg, mayor of the city, is calling this one like it is. Brooklyn rapper Papoose released a track called “50 Shots” which aired on rap station Hot 97 this weekend.
From Newsday.com:
Between gunshot sounds and samples from soul singer Sam Cooke’s civil-rights-era classic “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Papoose takes aim at the police.“If your reason was you thought he carried a gun / That means you killed him for nothing because he ain’t had one,” he raps.
But Papoose has some temperate praise for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at least in comparison to his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani: “He got some better manners / But let’s see if we get some better policy.”
UPDATE: Lyrics and mp3 now available.
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