Sharpton Arrested As Hundreds Protest Justified NYC Police Shooting - UPDATE With Video
NEW YORK - The Rev. Al Sharpton has been arrested at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge in a protest over the acquittal of three police officers involved in the 50-bullet shooting of an unarmed black man.
Sharpton, two survivors of the shooting and the slain man’s fiancee were arrested Wednesday in one of a series of demonstrations calling for a federal investigation into the November 2006 shooting.
Sharpton had called for acts of civil disobedience across the city. Several other demonstrators have been arrested as they stopped traffic at bridges and tunnels.
As police keep their distance, organizers are giving protesters instructions on how to behave when arrested.
The three officers were acquitted of state charges last month.
(AP)
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I guess the Chicago area Burr Oak Cemetery where the black workers dug up graves of other blacks selling thier plot Michell Obamas father was put to rest and may have been dug up!Hey Al I guess when they are black its not a big deal!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/burr-oak-cemetery-alsip-i_n_228947.html
ALSIP, Ill. — Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.
Frantic relatives of the deceased descended on Burr Oak Cemetery _ the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington _ in hopes someone could tell them their loved ones’ remains were not among the pile of bones that littered a remote area of the property in Alsip, 12 miles south of Chicago