Even in a $2000 Suit, Sharpton Still a Thug

The allegations that the Sean Bell shootings were racially motivated are preposterous. A group of undercover officers working in a gun and drug plagued strip in Queens had good reason to believe that a party leaving the club was armed and about to shoot an adversary.

But Al Sharpton would have you believe that the police regularly condone widespread mistreatment of blacks. And with his barely vealed threats of violence if justice wasn't done, three New York City cops were indicted.

News of the indictments of three NYPD officers in the Sean Bell case was hardly an hour old yesterday when Sharpton, in his $2000 suit, saw fit to throw fuel on this latest fire - gratuitously terming the Bell tragedy "just as ugly" as the mad, methodical massacre of two unarmed auxiliary cops Wednesday in Greenwich Village.

Nicholas Pekearo and Eugene Marshalik were sought out and deliberately executed. It's all on videotape.

Sean Bell was part of a group of young men partying at a skeezy Queens dive that was under police investigation for alleged drug and gun violations and prostitution. Detectives opened fire when he drove his car straight at undercover cops.

Equating the two incidents is disgusting and Al Sharpton was nowhere to be seen when the two New York officers were shot dead. Apparently dead police officers aren't worth getting out of bed for.

But for bottom feeders, such as Sharpton, there was no chance he would miss out on the publicity following this case. Sadly, it was just as inevitable that New York’s politicians would acquiesce in that gambit, thus sacrificing the New York Police Department to racial politics.