“Kill the Police!” – Africans threaten to “close NYC”

Hundreds of Negroes 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.

Sharpton didn't say exactly how they would protest the acquittals of
the officers who fired the 50 shots. He said Bell's supporters could
demonstrate all over the city, from Wall Street to the home of Justice
Arthur Cooperman, who on Friday acquitted the three detectives after a
nonjury trial.

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