Posted on 06/09/2008 1:57:03 PM PDT by Stoat
Monday, June 9th 2008, 4:00 AM
The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened Sunday to disrupt baseball's historic All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium next month unless the state passes new laws to curb police misconduct.
A month after protesters blocked bridges and tunnels during rush hour, Sharpton said he wants to bring the outrage over the Sean Bell shooting to the national stage July 15 by targeting the midsummer classic.
"We have plans to do the same at the All-Star Game," Sharpton said. "We will seriously consider suspending our civil disobedience if we can see some legislative action."
Sharpton would not reveal the nature of the planned protests at the game, which is being held in theBronx to mark the final season at Yankee Stadium. He would not say whether the protesters would demonstrate inside or outside the Stadium.
"It's the time the whole world willbe looking at New York," said Sharpton. "It would be very dramatic."
The activist noted that Bell was a budding baseball star before he died on his wedding day in a hail of 50 police bullets.
"Sean Bell may have been an All Star if he hadn't been killed," he said.
The new protest threat came as elected officials unveiled a series of proposed new laws they believe will reduce police misconduct.
The package of laws would reform the Civilian Complaint Review Board, require drug testing when cops fire their guns and ban arrest quotas, according to a 28-page report.
"We must enact laws that will restore the public's faith in our law enforcement officials," said state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Queens), co-chairman of the New York State Tri-Level Legislative Task Force. "[We must] bridge the divide between our communities and our police departments."
The recommendations come 18 months after Bell was killed only hours prior to his planned wedding to fiancée Nicole Paultre Bell.
Sharpton insisted that he is not against the police and the new laws are designed to support law enforcement.
"I believe this is a pro-police legislative package," he said. "It will remove a cloud of suspicion for themajority of police that are not engaged in misconduct and not engaged in brutality."
When "Reverend" Al demands something, he says: "Okay, you give me what I want or I'll shut down a big part of New York City, place lives at risk, break the law and cause untold suffering to perhaps hundreds of thousands of people or even more"
I'm not seeing a whole lot of difference.
Sorry, Al
Didn’t you hear Obama is going to be president that means no more racism.
I thought Bell had given up baseball to pursue a career marketing crack.
Oy Vey!!!! Leave baseball alone!!!! My goodness, they have to try to ruin ALL THAT IS GOOD!!!!!
I wonder how many innocent people were harmed as a result of his previous "protests"?
How many ambulances, fire apparatus or police vehicles were delayed or prevented from getting to their destinations as a direct result of a needless traffic mess? How many people died needlessly due to such delays?
How many legitimate business people were inconvenienced or prevented from doing their work as a result?
Sickening.
“We will seriously consider suspending our civil disobedience if we can see some legislative action.”
And I will seriously consider my LEGAL RIGHT to defend myself.
Will a certain Democrat presidential nominee benefit or be harmed by this stunt?
These episodes of violence and threatened violence against decent people by the "Reverend" Al have become so commonplace that it's time for there to be a dedicated key to use when they occur
Shouldn’t Al Sharpton be in Tennessee protesting the racial gang rape, torture and murder of a white couple by a bunch of black thugs?
After all -— those innocent whites did NOTHING to warrant the CRIMINAL acts against them....
Sean Bell’s personal acts and the acts of those with him, amounted to an assault against the police -— leading to the police responding with deadly fire...
Sharpton is becoming more and more like the militant Islamists -— protesting EVERY IMAGINED affront to blacks, while conveniently ignoring all the REAL acts of barbarism of blacks against blacks or whites...
Sharpton is STILL a violent rabble raising murderous race pimp — and should be in prison instead of in front of a protest or on FOX TV.
Hope you don’t mind me stealing that one from you!!!!
Didn’t you hear Obama is going to be president that means no more racism.
LMAO
And after BHO's first term (Bite my tongue!) we'll be told that "racism is so completely ingrained in White American culture that it will take a second term to make a change"
and on and on and on and on.......
I'm sure that an invitation will be extended and it would indeed make a delightful photo-op but I'm guessing that BHO will 'have a full schedule' and 'can't comment on this issue at this time'....even Marxists know when it's best to keep their heads down.
Hopefully the local muslim 'community' will make a strong showing in 'solidarity' with 'our oppressed Black brethren' against The Evil White Racist Power Structure.
Big Al must be having trouble getting someone to come up with shut up money,this is old.
I thought Bell had given up baseball to pursue a career marketing crack.
LMAO
Little details like that, which involve such inconvenient things such as 'truth' and 'accuracy', tend to be 'distracting' from the 'real issues', according to people such as BHO and his adoring, enthusiastic acolytes in the dinosaur media.
rev run.....baseball is NOT the place for your racism....stick to preaching to other b. HUSSEIN followers!!!!
And I will seriously consider my LEGAL RIGHT to defend myself.
Full steam ahead.
I believe that they were sent to the same filing cabinet as "Politicians' Backbones", Treason Laws and American Sovereignty Laws......and the keys to that file were lost long ago.
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