The Failure of Urban Black Leaders, Law Enforcement Leaders, and Inner City Nightmares

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• Al Sharpton, Sean Bell, and Failures in Black Communities

• Sam Kiva Finkelstein / DRAX Realty Corp.
  Part Deux: An Actual Inner City Nightmare!

Here is a copy of an e-mail sent to friends, members of law enforcement and other agencies.

And keep in mind the crimes I mention in and around Al Sharpton's National Action Network, I personally witnessed within a matter of months, while documenting with agencies, including law enforcement, along the way. I was shocked that people were living this way with no integrity, morals or values, yet place a level of perfection and unrealistic scrutiny upon the NYPD.

Not to mention, the first black people I met in NYC area were members of the cop-shooting/drug dealing/murdering Larry Davis crime crew who opened my eyes, for the first time, to unbelievable black organized crime, including through NYPD to commit further crimes (death threats, witness tampering, extortion, money laundering, etc.). Their website (www.nycstreetstars.com or www.myspace.com/nycstreetstars) was even created by the criminals, who help them daily with their crimes. And all of these prideful con artists have children, who are learning directly from them - the same mentality as Donald Trump and his children! And I am quite sure all were also involved in the Sean Bell protests and denounced NYPD as corrupt, a word their leader, nor the leader of Jim Crow benefactors, Donald Trump, cannot even spell.

As depressed as I am from having my life severely altered from back-to-back organized crime, I can no longer keep quiet about what I've experienced as well as witnessed. That would be no different from the "don't snitch" policy keepers I detest!

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From: Tamra MB
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:33 +0000
Subject: 41-year-old NYC Corrections Officer Kenneth Duncan

Don't believe the Al Sharpton hype! The city of New York was not enraged, nor was there a massive protest. Just a small number of people protesting around Al Sharpton's Nat'l Action Network, and the same persons protesting over and over, which is ironic because of the following.

As a black woman, I'm appalled by the behavior of the majority of black and latino people in and around the NYPD areas, all of which is done with excuses and the common blame that "it's the white man's fault". The ones not doing harm are being overshadowed grossly. And Jim Crow Benefactors do NOT care if blamed or not. Their only concern: continue reaping benefits of "whites only" Jim Crow.

Funny, 25 years ago and earlier, during Jim Crow, we (black people) had few rights and options, yet behaved with self-respect and dignity in spite of. Now, the Dept. of Justice, if not the Southern Poverty Law Center, has shut down the klan and in your face racism on all visible levels. The rest is now up to each individual. There is still racism, but not to the point where decency and self-respect is prevented in one's own home and neighborhood. I'm also a strong believer in build your OWN, then see who needs whom more.

Time and again, we've seen what we're able to build, and who came along with their savage behavior and destroyed it: Greenwood (Black Wall Street Tulsa), Rosewood, Florida, Trinity/Five Points NYC and more. So I KNOW what we're capable of, and that there's a communication disconnect with our youth about our value and what we're MORE than capable of.

And yes I know there are bad cops, but there are bad persons in every profession: priesthood, teachers, lawyers, accountants, builders and more! Labeling them all as bad, and reacting immediately to them as such, is no different from the racism of the kkk.

While Al Sharpton is up to his usual complaints, with one of highest number of non-voters in his area, especially during the mid-terms, the following are just accepted as a daily way of life directly in the location of Al Sharpton's National Action Network and other predominantly black and latino areas of NYC: robberies, stabbings, shootings, rapes, hard core drug trafficking, housing fraud, welfare fraud, immigration fraud, teenage strippers, teenage strippers committing housing fraud, piracy/counterfeiting, vehicle registration fraud on a wide scale level, illiteracy with pride, foul language from children as young as 7 years old, and too often murders, along with a slew of felonious crimes. And all crimes are supported with a "don't snitch" policy. To add to the decor of these crimes, used condoms, alcohol bottles and non-stop trash align the streets, even with trash cans placed on nearly every corner.

Just recently, a black mother, Nancy Williams, was shot and killed while out playing with her child in Brooklyn. The bullets were sprayed recklessly during a beef between two blacks. I'm more than sure many of the Sean Bell protesters don't even know her name or care to know. Or their response would typically be, "oh well, that's how it is in the hood."

Just prior to that another black mother in Brooklyn was shot in front of her child as she was exiting her home. A neighborhood shootout began just as she was leaving her home. Charles Barron, another black community leader who stands besides Sharpton to criticize the NYPD, had to beg and plead to residents to come forward with the name of her killer as there were witnesses, but no one wanted to come forward . He literally stated, "if you don't want to snitch, snitch to me and I'll snitch for you." I'm wondering if any members of the community will help raise the two children now without mothers.

In the Bronx, shootings occur almost daily, including at parties. Residents just keep triple locks on their doors and pretend it's not happening.

Yet, the first words out of these same community members is "they (the NYPD) don't respect and value our lives" or "they (NYPD) are killing us". Ironically, Jim Crow Benefactors' complain that others won't adapt to their way of life, therefore, should be banned from their areas (housing, jobs, educational institutions), but guns, guns and more guns are always welcome. Jim Crow Benefactors also love their mass shootings too, because gawd forbid, there's a ban on assault rifles. 🙄

Uniformed NYPD officers Russel Timoshenko and Herman Yan, now both Detectives, were shot by three black men, who were stopped because the vehicle they were riding in was stolen. Officer Timoshenko was shot point blank in the face and died a few days later. Officer Yan was severely wounded but recovered. Both officers were promoted to Detectives, Timoshenko, posthumously. The shooters shot recklessly and didn't care who was hurt. The gun came from a pro-NRA, anti-gun control red state.

There was ZERO community outrage about these senseless killings. I didn't see a statement from the local NAACP, Al Sharpton or Charles Barron about either of these killings which all occurred AFTER the death of Sean Bell (which stemmed from an argument at a strip club), and after repeated protests, which claimed the NYPD was "racist" and had little respect for black lives. And all of the cops involved in the Sean Bell shooting were minorities - 1 African-American, 1 African-American/Mexican/island heritage, and 1 of Arab descent.

Black rapper Remy Ma was recently sent to prison for opening fire in a public area in Greenwich Village, because she wanted to settle a beef with someone who stole money from her. In the process, she shot an innocent woman who was simply sitting in her vehicle. Luckily, the woman, who was shot, lived. Remy Ma was praised for keeping it real.

The irony is Remy Ma brought a gun in public obviously with intent to use it. Whereas police officers carry a gun because they are required to do so, yet, it is the last thing they want to use, and don't leave their home with intent to use their gun.

These are just a few examples of what happens regularly directly around Al Sharpton's Nat'l Action Network in Harlem that Sharpton and the local NAACP literally ignore while blaming the white man and the NYPD for destroying "their community".

Yes, I know "50 shots" is what everyone keeps focusing on, but what I asked: WHY WERE THERE UNDERCOVER COPS IN A COMMUNITY IN THE FIRST PLACE?? What triggered having undercover cops in the community? Are the same situations - strip clubs with gun trafficking and teen/child strippers, where children pass to and from school - in Rye, NY or Greenwich, Connecticut? Who ZONED a strip club into the community?? THESE are the conversations that should be had daily in any black community with the same conditions.

I can't count the number of ready to die persons, plus literal mobsters and organized criminals in NYC. General crime is down, but in the predominantly black and latino communities of New York City, crime runs rampant, while organized and white collar criminals profit from, with and around them! Just view one week alone of the NYPD's crime log for Queens, Harlem, Brooklyn and Bronx. Ironically, organized crime mobsters live in quiet, safe neighborhoods. Even they don't even want their children in high crime areas, but want the profits from inner city crimes. The NRA also does the same: uses the crimes in inner city areas to sell more guns to their fear-based lemmings.

And I've heard people call the presiding judge over the case, Judge Cooperman, a racist. Some even claimed the judge shouldn't have used the criminal convictions of the shooting victims as part of his decision because their criminal records were not stamped on their foreheads the night of the shooting.

Well, the judge was not present at the shooting, if so, THAT would make him prejudiced. The criminal records were entered into evidence AND allowed by the prosecution in regards to the credibility of the witnesses on the stand - Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield. Their stories didn't add up, including against medical experts, science and evidence.

It's strange how Al Sharpton and the repeat lemmings who follow him want to say "our community". Well, if their areas were treated like "their community", social responsibility would be taken to ensure a better quality of life and safety for all.

People ARE NOT supposed to live with robberies, stabbings, shootings, rapes, fraud, tagging and destruction of buildings, and other degenerate acts all day long. This is NOT a normal way of life, it's abnormal and has just been accepted as part of life, which is a slap in the face to Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

And do you think Coretta Scott King or Dr. King would have rammed anyone's car while driving drunk, after leaving a strip club where there were probably teenage strippers too?! Had someone snitched in "their community", there wouldn't have been a need for undercover cops in the first place NOR a strip club. And it's not WHERE you live, it's HOW you live. Morals, integrity and self-respect don't cost anything.

However, there shouldn't be cops in areas they're not a part of, especially Long Island-living members of NYPD (cupcake walkers) who see the community as "us against them". They're not going to service the community they don't care about, and go out of their way to avoid, but only further animosity created by others before, during and after Jim Crow.

In my opinion, until I see otherwise, all leaders in the NYC area and urban areas across the United States have failed their communities miserably. They've not only dropped Dr. King's ball, but let the air get stolen from it!

Meanwhile, Jam Master Jay's widow is STILL suffering in silence while her husband's killer remains free. Others were in the room when her husband was shot, but no one wants to be the snitch. The killer is protected, in the same way white collar frauds are protected by the Justice Department!

If Sean Bell's car had rammed an armed drug dealer's car (which the three detectives could have been dealers, since all 3 shooting victims claimed to have not known who they were, or why being stopped), that armed drug dealer would have surely executed all three persons in Sean Bell's car, with as many bullets as the armed drug dealer felt necessary. And 3 families would be suffering in silence, and constantly wondering where the murderer was, like Jam Master Jay's widow is.

No one in the same community outraged by the Sean Bell killing would have said anything (the "don't snitch" policy), and the drug dealer would have been praised for "keeping it real".

A rapper would have wrote a song about the execution of Bell, Guzman and Benefield, praising the drug dealer, and now murderer (like Larry Davis has been repeatedly praised by folks, who never knew his heart, which I personally know and saw). That song would be on the MP3 players of almost all the persons claiming the NYPD is corrupt and trying to kill us all!

And the only thing that would have died once the NYPD got involved, would have been the leads followed to solve the murders, because no one wants to be the snitch!

Think I'm wrong?! Well, let's ask 50 Cent! Or even Busta Rhymes who was standing right next to his bodyguard who was shot, but he ain't no snitch. And I wonder if Lil Kim feels improved after a prison stint for not snitching. Has anyone checked to see how Shyne is doing for taking the rap for someone to avoid snitching?! How have all those things bettered our black communities?

Just last week 41-year-old Kenneth Duncan, a black New York City Corrections Officer, was gunned down outside of his own home, while off-duty working on his motorcycle. No one in the city cared enough to protest about this! He was black. Yet, no one wants to come forward about Officer Duncan's shooting or any other unsolved neighborhood shooting, robbery, etc. which is not only corrupt, but foul on so many levels!

The nonsense has to stop within the community first, before blaming others outside the community, with "blame game" help from folks who DON'T live directly within the community, and would rather see the community fail as a whole anyway.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:33
Within an hour after I sent the original e-mail above, in a predominantly black area of Brooklyn, a black teenager shot another black teenager, and is now on the run within the don't snitch community. I kid you not, go to www.7online.com for details on this breaking story! Now, a teen is packing heat and ready to shoot.

And obviously it's not the "white man" coming around, passing out "don't snitch" t-shirts and spreading that dumb philosophy, because it's the "white man" or the "racists", even if they are African-American, Latino, from our outlying island areas or of Arab descent and coming around trying to solve the crimes to improve the quality of life!

April 22, 2008 - Corrections Officer Fatally Shot Outside Brooklyn Home
WNBC-TV NEW YORK - Police are looking for two men wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a correction officer outside his Brooklyn home. The victim has been identified as 41-year-old Kenneth Duncan. Norman Seabrook, the president of the New York City Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, said Duncan and a friend had been working on motorcycles outside the house on Avenue A in East Flatbush when they were approached by two men brandishing weapons.

It appears the men were attempting to steal a motorcycle, Seabrook said.

Duncan identified himself as a correction officer and displayed a gun, Seabrook said. At some point, shots rang out and police said Duncan was shot once in the face. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Police recovered a gun at the scene belonging to Duncan.Officers also found another gun at a nearby Dunkin' Donuts, and that weapon is undergoing ballistics tests to see if it was used in the crime.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officials are looking for the two men. Several people are being questioned by police.

Seabrook said the incident appears to be gang-related.

WNBC's Glenn Zimmerman contributed to this report

updated 6:01 a.m. ET May 2, 2008 WNBCSources: Son Of NYPD Officer Killed
WNBC-TVNEW YORK - Police sources told News 4 New York the 19-year-old son of a female NYPD officer was killed Thursday in Bushwick.Sources said the young man was stabbed at about 7 p.m. in a hallway of 1160 Gates Ave. Police said they found the victim with multiple stab wounds to his body. He was removed to Woodhull Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police said.

People at the scene who said they were related to the victim said he was a good person.

There was a report of three young men running from the scene.

He may have been there to visit an aunt on his mothers side, neighbors said.

No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.

His name was Renato Scantlebury. See story link for photo and update: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24423538

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