Officers Found Not Guilty In Sean Bell Case

[redwood13]

NY Times has a lengthy article along with some good diagrams of the shooting scene.

 

http://tinyurl.com/6rabce

 

Also see the additional link to the right under #2

 

"See a description of the events from the police"

 

The 31 shots were from a Sig Sauer p226. Cooper used a Glock 19.

 

BTW, new NYPD officers pay starts at around $25K.

 

-redwood

 

[Julian2]

[color:red]"Cocked and locked is SOP for experienced officers."[/color]

 

This is true for most hand guns, but if this was a glock, there is no "locked". The glocks have internal safeties, no externals. When the NYPD switched to the glock, some of their own officers accidentally shot themselves. Some say the NYPD officers are not the brightest light bulbs on the planet and that is why some sub versions of glocks are made just for NYPD. The major difference is the triggers are stiffen making it resemble a revolver. Some claim the real reason was the original trigger pull was so light that some officers were accidentally shooting when they did not realize it.

That's interesting. I haven't personally owned or fired a gun for more than 30 years so I'm out of touch there. When I got kids I sold the guns or gave them away.

I suppose most of what I know about them now, in a technical sense, comes from reading mystery/detective novels.

[Flashermac]

Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) - 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.

 

The rally at Sharpton's office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem's main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out "Kill the police!"

 

Fifty of the marchers carried white placards bearing big black numbers for each of the police bullets fired at Bell and his friends.

 

Sharpton urged people to return for a meeting this coming week "to plan the day that we will close this city down" with the kind of "massive civil disobedience" once led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"They never accused Sean Bell of doing anything. Then why is he dead?" Sharpton asked, his voice roaring with anger. Authorities "have shown now that they will not hold police accountable. Well, guess what? If you won't, we will!"

 

"Shut it down! Shut it down!" the crowd chanted, standing up and applauding wildly.

 

 

 

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