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Re: NYPD officers acquitted of all charges in shooting of Sean Bell
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Originally Posted by MattLarson
IIRC, the guy actually hit one of the officers with his car. The court ruled that the officers fired in justified fear for their lives and / or the lives of the other officers.
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I first heard about this case on the news. At that time, Sean Bell had just been shot and killed. It was difficult to follow the case, as nothing more was said about it until only a few days ago, when news of the acquittal broke.
The thing that angers me is that these men fired fifty shots at Sean, then have the gall to claim it was some sort of 'self defence'? The man was unnarmed, and even if he was armed with a weapon of some type, he was up against four policemen with guns, who knew how to use them. Even he was armed, against four armed policemen he would never have stood a chance.
I don't believe there was any reason for so many bullets to have been fired. It simply wasn't justified, self defence or not. These men used excessive force, and I am shocked they were acquitted.
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