Sean Bell’s Murderers Acquitted
Usually I would not cover this story on BrownSista, but rather the official forum where it is already being discussed. However Toya, who runs Meagan Online, thought this case was important enough to post here- and I gotta agree with her. Personally, living in the Bronx, I knew the police officers would be acquitted. For those of you who may not know, cases of officers shooting unarmed Black and Hispanic men happen quite often here in New York and when it does and officers are brought up on charges, they always choose to be tried before a judge rather than a jury. Most often victims are shot in Black/Latino neighborhoods and the offending officers, who are usually White, do not want to face a jury box full of Black and brown faces. Thus, they go before a judge, who most likely will be White and they walk. This scenario has happened at least 3 times in the last few years, and I am sure will happen many, many more.
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