It's about Al Sharpton, not Bell

It really bothers me when I see things like this for so many reasons. Number one, I don't like to hear that someone was shot in the early morning hours before their wedding. That's just sad.

Of course, I don't like to hear about police officers having to fear for their lives from drunk men who get in a car and try and run them down either.

Just a very unfortunate situation.

I have to admit it sounds very bad and excessive when you hear that the police fired 50 shots. 31 of those coming from one officer. That's a lot. However, I wasn't there and don't have all of the evidence and it's not my job to decide if the officers were right or wrong. That's up to the court and the court decided that the officers were not wrong. Good or bad, and I'll be the the first to admit that sometimes it is bad, that's our justice system in this country.

What is even more sad to me, is when you have people that use this horrible situation of a man being really stupid one night and getting himself into a really bad situation where he put the lives of police officers in jeopardy and paid for it, to boost their own persona in the public eye. Al Sharpton needs to go home and stay there.

What if Rev Al gets people all fired up and there is a riot? What if people are killed? What if more police officers are attacked and have to defend themselves with deadly force?

The problem here is people not thinking. Unfortunately Bell wasn't thinking straight when he went drinking, kept his car keys and then turned violent with police officers. Unfortunately Rev Al isn't thinking of ways to keep this from happening again. Instead he is inflaming a volatile situation and turning the minds of young people even MORE against authority. He is preaching animosity against the police and feeding an US against THEM sentiment. This will only cause more tension. More stupidity. Less thinking. And in the end, more deaths.

Get a clue Rev Al. Go home. Mourn a horrible situation. Work for cooperation between neighborhood leaders and the police. Realize we are all good guys on the same team. Stop thinking about yourself and think about what will really help this situation and these grieving families.