Can you believe that Mayor Bloomberg shared the podium with a bunch of thugs. Sharpton,Jackson,Baron. Bums!?

Question

To the naive lady below: Sharpton demonstrated against Koreans in Harlem who were later killed by his followers. Jackson is a racial extorsionist. Baron has advocated taking blood in response to police shootings before the facts are established.

Answer 1

While you may not like Sharpton Or Jackson and I am not a big fan of thiers either. They are hardly thugs.

Answer 2

I believe that Mayor Bloomberg met with civic leaders to discuss what happened in that horrible shooting. But these people are certainly not thugs.
When I first read your question, it made me wonder what YOU are doing to be a part of the solution, rather than being a critic and name-caller. The way in which you posed your question only incites more seperation.
How about we discuss the situation without name-calling and look for a solution so that something like this never happens again?

Answer 3

Word has it that Mayor Bloomberg is thinking of running on the Republican ticket for President in 2008. This is a man who sent undercover detectives into other states to conduct "investigations" that jeopardized at least 18 ATFB investigations and almost blew the identities of undercover officers.
The mayor needs their support even if he runs on an opposing party ticket.
The liberals are trying to hedge their efforts to put more liberals in congress.

Answer 4

Wait a minute...Let's see...Bloomberg's police force shot a group of unarmed partygoers (in a black neighborhood when they would NEVER do that in a white neighborhood) 51 TIMES and you think Sharpton, Jackson, Baron, (who support the families of those attacked..are THUGS...

Hmmm....You are an insensitive bigot.

Do everyone a favor and think about it.

Answer 5

Here you go:

November 28, 2006 -- YESTERDAY, a Latino reporter asked Mayor Bloomberg why he had surrounded himself solely with African-Americans at a press conference to discuss the horrible police shooting incident in Queens. Why were there no Latinos present?
The question elicited a gasp-inducing explanation from the mayor: There were no Latinos on the stage with him, Bloomberg said, because he had only "invited elected officials and clergy from that community" in Queens - the community near the site of the shooting.
Oh? Perhaps my eyes deceived me, but hadn't he, only a few minutes earlier, walked into the press conference with the Rev. Al Sharpton - whose church is in Harlem, in Manhattan, far away from the South Jamaica "community?"
Al is from one kind of "community," all right - the community of race-baiting cop haters who emerge whenever a tragic incident allows them to pick up a megaphone and seek to promote racial discord for fun, profit and media attention.
And here is the mayor, treating this vicious miscreant who has done more to inflame tensions between the races in this city than anyone in modern history as a credible participant in a dialogue intended to reduce racial tensions.
And lest you think Sharpton has changed and grown and matured, consider what he was doing only hours after the shooting - commandeering press attention, screaming through a megaphone, doing his best to take a potentially explosive situation and pour kerosene on it in hopes that he might get some light flashed on him from the resulting fire.
That's Sharpton. He can lose weight and wear a nicer suit, but he's still the same rabble-rouser he always was.
The question is, just what the hell is Bloomberg doing?
The mayor said one astounding thing after another during his press conference yesterday. At one moment he waxed embarrassingly philosophical, opining that "no one can imagine what it would be like to be of a different ethnicity."
Oh, really, Mr. Mayor? I imagine that people of a different ethnicity from mine might, for example, bleed when they are shot just as I would, or love their children just as much as I love mine, or would feel grief-stricken to have a family member shot to death on the day of his wedding.
Bloomberg certainly believes these things too. But in his quest to try and calm matters in the city, our mayor found himself resorting to the worst kind of sodden race cliché - for even a politically correct race cliché is still a noxious race cliché.
On a more practical note, the mayor informed the city yesterday that it was not NYPD policy to allow officers to shoot their guns when a car is being used as a weapon against them. He said this in response to the emerging story of the shooting - according to which an undercover police officer found himself in the path of a Nissan Altima being driven by Sean Bell, the man killed in the shooting.
Supposedly, the Altima twice tried to run the cop down outside a seedy nightclub in South Jamaica.
The NYPD may not have a "policy" permitting an officer to fire in such a situation, but it doesn't need a "policy." As my colleague Bob McManus wrote in reference to the Amadou Diallo case seven years ago, "The statute on the use of deadly force by an on-duty police officer is quite clear: It is lawful if an officer reasonably believes his own life to be in danger."
Indeed, the use of deadly force under life-threatening circumstances is lawful in very nearly every circumstance you can think of - even if you're not a cop.
If the initial accounts are accurate, what happened on that Queens street was another example of an incident involving police and guns that ran horribly amok in a fantastically short period of time - with more than 50 shots fired in 10 seconds.
The mayor basically said he couldn't imagine how such a thing could happen, even though the initial account that is emerging - someone inside the strip club flashed a gun, a cop followed him outside, a second man yelled out that he was going to get another gun, things got very confusing, the cop and his fellow officers ended up firing - makes at least some sense of how such a thing could conceivably happen.
And while saying he doesn't want to prejudice the outcome of the investigation, Bloomberg did exactly that: He made it clear he thinks the police officers were in the wrong even though there's no clear evidence yet that they were.
Of course, this description of the Nissan Altima being used as a weapon may simply be a fabrication meant to protect the cops. If so, the mayor got it right.
If he didn't, then he got it very wrong.
And in allowing Al Sharpton to turn this killing into a photo op, there's no question: Bloomberg got it wrong. And shamed his office.
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Answer 6

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity butt-kisser.

At times like these, we could use a leader like Rudolph Giuliani.

Answer 7

I am much more concerned that he tried to pass legislation that would give illegals the right to vote.

Answer 8

I will pray for you because you have issues beyond conventional med's.Plus you are a racist of the lowest kind.

Answer 9

Yall is some rascal *** people men, get a life stupid mahtatruckers.

Answer 10

While I am no fan of these three, they are not thugs.