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This 73 year old cancer survivor, Bernard Monroe was enjoying a barbecue and some family time when the police arrived to question his son Shawn Monroe.  At the time of this incident Monroe had no standing arrest warrants pending. The media of course make a point of letting the public know that Shawn has a lengthy record. Monroe was shot by Louisiana Police and his family is alleging racism and a police cover-up.

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Here is a quote from the town’s police chief

“If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names,” said [Homer, Louisiana Police Chief Russell] Mills, who is white. “I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested. We’re not out there trying to abuse and harass people—we’re trying to protect the law-abiding citizens locked behind their doors in fear.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/theone235/ theone235

    Another”Blackman” who was minding his house that was mowed down at his home. Is this going to be another Shawn Bell case that the officers get away with 1st Degree Murder.It is a shame that this man who survived CANCER and was having a family outing to be MURDERED at his home.just remember this GOD don’t like UGLY,and what goes around comes around!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheFreshestFemale/ TheFreshestFemale

    I swear they take their position as a high authority so highly, God is the only one that judges, but its cool tho, each and every one of them bad ass cops gne have to answer to God

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/magikk/ magikk

    I believe that it’s the system that we live in. The police’s don’t get policing because they realize that they get acquitted after the beatings, the shootings, or the stabbings, or the illegal searches and seizures. And with no fear of repercussions why bother following procedures? I know this may sound wrong but I’m shocked that we’re shocked at this. This has been common practice for generations. In the Kentucky Democratic Primary 22% of whites claimed that they would NEVER vote for an African American. Why are we shocked that white people want to kill us? We should be getting ourselves prepared defend our lives rather than protesting the taking of another one. It’s a cruel world out there folks and we live in the cruelest nation of them all. In order to survive in it I believe that we too should be just as vile in our efforts to protect ourselves.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Adore_Ford/ Adore_Ford

    How in the hell are the same ppl the cop is apart of investigate the crime scene. Thats like getting ur bestfriend to say u had nthn to do nthn lol…
    The cop is gonna get off for the mere fact that the old man had a gun. He didn’t have to be holding it. They are gonna chalk it up to misunderstanding. Claiming that the police made a minor misunderstanding. The most time they will get is 2 or 3 years, if not less.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Caramel_Chicka/ Caramel_Chicka

    They were kinda rude to the witness. But Im not surprised about the story. When will it end?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Metra23/ Metra23

    OMG what is this world coming 2. Wait it not tha worlf it tha people such as tha (cops). What r tha cops tryin 2 do with tha black males. This is tha third incident what do us black people have 2 do 2 get justice. The cop take there job lik they r god but hey they r not it sad how cop just want 2 tak advance of people because they have that lil rite. To b honest cops r lik that everywhere since we got a black mayor n our town we have seen it also not the killin but nasty and how they try 2 do us. Do it take someone 2 hurt them 4 them 2 stop. But if a cop get kill they r so on there job but when a black male get kill what they do the suspend them wit pay I really don’t know what it goin 2 come 2.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaprinaW82/ CaprinaW82

    This is just wrong! I dont have a record but I cant stand white cops for this very reason!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/game_up/ game_up

    On the real F**k the police the police shot my bestfriend on my birthday and killed him for no reason they try to say he had a gun but some peole who was @ the party had the whole thing on tape…on real I dont like like the police never did never will f**k em!! This s**t gotta stop and if we cant stop it by taking it to the court rooms then best believe we will bust our guns back!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Waayout/ Waayout

    fuk the police! simple as that! they have no respect for our race so i have no respect for them, they have been killing us since we were brought here in chains.they are quick to say,”that race have nothing to do with all these shootings”but its always the the person with the black face that gets shot! i would had murdered both the pigs on the spot if they would have shot and killed my pops in front of me.so black peeps tell me this,if that was some other blacks that killed him it would have been a shoot out rite? im sure it would.
    we as black people will murder the man mirror with no question asked but not the people who has had there boots on our neck for centuries! so what will it take they are already killing our young adults and now there are killing our elderly i guess when they start killing out babies maybe thats when we will start fighting back!??????????????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigapplefashions/ bigapplefashions

    IT’S TIME TO KEEP IT GHETTO AND GANGSTA..REP YA CITY..”
    WE ALL NEED TO STICK~2GETHR.RESPECT AND SERVE SHOULD BE THE MOTTO OF THE POLICE.WE ALL KNOW 911 IS A JOKE…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ucantcme2/ ucantcme2

    I really don’t know what to say, I guess I’m so sick and tired of this racism s**t going around it don’t make any sense. Police never treated black people fair about any emergency situation. We never got any justice, no help, no nothing from them but I am willing to bet if the tables were turned all hell would’ve broke loose.Every black person who was involved would be in jail right now even if they didn’t have anything to do with it. WHEN IS ALL OF THIS GOING TO STOP I’M TIRED OF BEING SINGLED OUT CAUSE I’M BLACK

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SWANKness/ SWANKness

    my step father is from Homer LA, and it’s this little town about an hour away from Shreveport, and it’s everything you think a little louisiana town is. racism among the blacks and the whites of the town. on our news they say he didn’t have a gun, he was watchin his grandson run from the cops, and then they shot. Is this not America? or do we live in a 3rd world country?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hellokitty111/ Hellokitty111

    This is soooo sad and its embarrassing. For the cop to be qouted as saying i want them to walk down the street afraid of seeing us. Ummmm…..police officers in that city while your paying all your attention to black folks, you seem to be forgetting about the other crimes white folks are committing behind your back cause you could be chasing the wrong folks. And then for him to say “We’re not out there trying to abuse and harass people—we’re trying to protect the law-abiding citizens locked behind their doors in fear.” is pretty sad because coming from these eyes your abusing and harassing people ESPECIALLY when you said you want them to be afraid. Thats abuse right there and then you say you want to protect the law abiding citizens, sorry fool we all should be afraid of you, including your family. I know i would. Sorry i wouldn’t be afraid of black folks, i would be afraid of white cops like you who abuse their power. i’m curious what the statistics are of crime there black vs white.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/catscatscats/ catscatscats

    Well here we go again, i think i read that the if the police see three or more black men that he must stop them and get there name. Well is that not abuse i really have no ideam what it is. They should have stop the guys who blew up a hold block in texas

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/independentwoman2580/ independentwoman2580

    It blows my mind how often these things happen and how to most people it “just another story”. No one does anything, its all over the news and yet these cops still get to do whatever they want and WE PAY THEM!!!!!! They judge people based on color, clothes and the way people speak. It sickens me that people can still be so ignorant and divided. Are you serious!!!!! The crazy thing to me is they think they are doing nothing wrong and they get a slap on the wrist and go on about their day. They dont deserve to have a badge let alone be walking the streets!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EsidesFinest/ EsidesFinest

    I truly believe what Ice-T said in the late 80′s about the cops when he did Cop Killer. F**k them cops. Just because you took some oath and had some training and have a gun, it doesn’t give you any right to come and take the lives of Blacks and Hispanics and poor whites. One thing that can be done to remedy this in cities is to make them cops live in the neighborhood they patrol. Its easy to raise hell in the hood and go hide in the suburbs. I bet all they mindsets would change if they kids had to play with ours and they had to live with us. Another thing, why or we JUST NOW hearing of this the shooting was FEB. 20. Right Wing racist ass media hides and slows as much important information as needed. How close are they to Jena, Louisiana where the noose incident happened? We already know that Louisiana, Mississippi, and other down south places with Good Ol’ Boys can’t stand us blacks. Nancy Pelosi’s daughter has a great doc**entary out called “Right America: Feeling Wronged” and it lets all the racist right wing people, some who hide their racism and others who don’t, voice their opinions and so be it. But when the s**t is played out in everyday life, like white southern pastors telling their congregation not to vote for Obama for obvious reasons (he’s black), and when cops beat a young black FEMALE teenager in Seattle like a f**king dog(check the video) and RURAL RACIST cops in Louisiana shoot a 73 year old man or they daring blacks to get silly? Or, are they showing us how much power we really lack. There isn’t a BLACK OR HISPANIC man in America right now that can tell me a time when a POLICE OFFICER actually served and protected that man. They serve us bullets and warrants and protect their suburbs. If anyone watched Real Time With Bill Maher last week, you got a chance to see one of the “new equip” right wing racist in America, and you also got to see a very intelligent BLACK MAN (Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, look him up) get in HIS S**T, VERY INTELLIGENTLY. I saw more than once that he wanted slap the s**t out of that man, I would have for him had I been invited. The point is, now these new racist throw stones and hide they hands anger that that their views are called RACIST, they called our President a terrorist and a whole list of other names but they continue to claim they aren’t racist. Why isn’t someone dragging f**king Former Terrible Ass Presidents Nixon and Reagan into this mess, every month we learn of a new program or something they started that still affects us today. Which proves that America had a plan to hold back BLACK AND MINORITY Americans since they dumped that f**king TEA in the BOSTON HARBOR before any of us we’re even thought of. These are the same people who continue to teach their kids and ours kids in school, the RACIST, and SEXIST HISTORY of our past. There is so much RACISM and SEXISM hidden in European and American History that it’s irreverisble. The one question I use to establish these RACIST, and you should do the same is very simple. I either ask them to draw a picture or tell me the desciption of JESUS they learned or have in their head. You wouldn’t believe how many come back looking like Heath Ledger and other WHITE PEOPLE. If a person WHITE, BLACK, PURPLE, GREEN, BROWN OR WHATEVER can’t acknowledge through true reason, and whats printed in the BIBLE, that JESUS was a BLACK MAN, you are one confused individual, and you help pollute the young minds with bulls**t they still goes on today. The most honest thing I heard about RACISM is that it’s TAUGHT from generation to generation. As blacks we are taught not to trust the POLICE, and with good reason, for every 20 cops I meet, only 3 or 5 really do they job and really respect life, whether it’s black, hispanic, poor white or whatever. The man from Bill Maher’s panel had to have had some RACIST ass grandfather or father who taught him to pity and hate minorities which has stuck with him to this day. And an educated Racist is as dangerous as a dumb racist ass cop with a gun in his hand pointed at a 73 year old man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EFEEZEE/ EFEEZEE

    Anyone who can’t see that this is another clear example of racism needs a reality check. Don’t fool ya self, we’re just tolerated more. But they don’t like us anymore than they did when my grandma use to pick cotton a a lil girl which wasn’t than long ago. So think about that!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LoDV187/ LoDV187

    You’d think with all the wonders of forensics that they do why they haven’t yet investigated the guy’s fingers and hands for paterns of fibers or gun powder residue. If he was trigger happy, there’d be evidence to show a lifestyle that is crazy. It needs to be an open and shut case. There are no fresh body oils that could correctly suggest a man c**king and holding the alleged weapon recently. There’s also a whole family of witnesses. The fact that an investigation is under way is sickening. Open and shut, this is murder, just like it was when a man was shot in his bedroom up here with nothing more then a can in his hand. He was paralized and now he’s dead. This man was a cancer surviver with an appreciation for family and life. Those cops need to pay back society… Eye for eye.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IWalkAlone247/ IWalkAlone247

    You know…racial profiling, police cover-ups, all this stuff is NEVER gonna go away….this is still a racist country…duhhhh. The only people who deny that are white people. Now, I have no problem with white people, I have no problem with cops….but one damn thing is for sure, I’m f**king SICK of black people using every f**king excuse to say “f**k the police” because we hear our favorite rappers say it…

    Don’t get me wrong, yeah, there are definitely racist police out there….but s**t, there are BLACK cops who do the exact same f**king thing! Some of the worst police shootings here in New York had BLACK COPS behind the triggers as well as white people….so my community need to get their heads out of their asses and get off the bulls**t….

    One thing I always notice is that the ones with rap sheets are ALWAYS the ones saying f**k the police…maybe they should focus on keeping the face of the black community out of jail and trying to keep us in a poitive light….

    Ridiculous….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HONEY-DYPP/ HONEY-DYPP

    Truly sad…
    I hope/pray the truth comes out,and Mr Monroe death isn’t in vain…
    R.I.P
    Old School…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The_Real_Goonstress/ The_Real_Goonstress

    THAT’S WHY I HATE WHITE PEOPLE.. MOTHERERF**KING CRACKERS KILL ME THEY WANNA F**K WITH BLACK PEOPLE FOR NO REASON AND WHEN THEY GET THEY ASS BEAT AND GET F**KED UP IT’S ON THE BLACK PEOPLE… THAT’S WHY I DON’T GIVE A F**K ABOUT THESE WHITE PEOPLE I DON’T CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY I WILL NEVER RESPECT A CRACKER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dashriprock45/ dashriprock45

    OK PEOPLE, THATS EOUNGH.ARE WE GOING TO KEEP TAKING IT OR WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.Im TIRED.YOU COULD BE NEXT. EYEFOREYE!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/0NELOVE/ 0NELOVE

    THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME TO LIGHT!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1RealG/ 1RealG

    i wonder what our president thinks about this….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dominicanbabe90/ dominicanbabe90

    That is very sad to hear..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KAYLOVE212/ KAYLOVE212

    Unfortunately, there is a chance that these cops may never see penalty. For all the progress we have made in being made equal, it has never been so. People know what not to say, or do, to “appear” racist, but it is surrounding us all the time. I just have the faith to believe that those who are made last, will one day be first in the eyes of God. Our cause is only as good as the media coverage, so shout it out, be outraged, call Jesse Jackson, because only then will people understand that we will not accept mediocracy. We will not accept bare minimum. We will not be oppressed.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/marcussalaam/ marcussalaam

    Ever since Columbus “so called discovered this land”the anglos have been doing their best to keep their foot on the heads of other ethnic people.Their nature is of greed and doing their best of having control over everyone and they will do anything to keep it that way whether by lying,stealing,killing,you name it. so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that these “cops” killed this man simply to show him and his family there so called “PLACE”.Now having a President in office who is black at least half black;this type of white person or community is definitely out to show that they are still in control…and it will get worse before it gets better.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/brownsuga923/ brownsuga923

    Unfortunately there are two different justice systems…..whites have always found away to get around their wrong doing….cover up is the name of the game…We have innocent blacks that go on with their everyday lives working and providing for their families… minding their own business and then all of a sudden you see
    a “group” of blacks hanging together..they instantly think something bad is going down…I am so sick of this one sided deal!!…Since President Obama has been sworn in…alot of things have come to light and trust me…more will appear in the future…We must continue to pray for enduring strength..the struggle isn’t over yet..but, our day is coming soon…….vengeance is mine said the lord…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/olo7888/ olo7888

    THIS S**T GOT TO STOP IT OK FOR WHITE MAN TO KILL A BLACK MAN BUT LET A BLACK MAN KILL A WHITE PERSON..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ChiTowne/ ChiTowne

    Racist white people have always found a way to destroy the lives of African Americans. From justified lynchings to modern day justified shootings.
    The white man should thank God everyday that the black man is as forgiving and patient as he is. How long does it go on before a people decide to fight back… Hell, even a dog will bite you if you keep messing with him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/raidernation7878/ raidernation7878

    can’t get away with murder for long, JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SirWalt87/ SirWalt87

    Hmm..So this is what i have to wake up to. In 2009, this is what i have to look forward to.

    I’m not even going to go great into detail on the video, because i believe the excessive force speaks for itself. But in all the video’s posted pay attention the law enforcement around the fellow officer attacker. Them seem unaffected by the brutality that is taken place. Never once trying to reduce, or how about stop the attacker. Instead, the on looking officers aid in the detention of these victims, and the argument of these officers that “i was just doing my job” is one of stupidity, because you now are becoming an enabler to criminal inside of your precinct. A hypocrite is what you are, wrong is wrong..PERIOD. Open you eyes, look beyond the cheerful coffee and fat cake conversations, and see the underling issues with the people you call a partner. Thats was for the force…To my people, take a deep one and relax, because what would we be if we tainted the progress that our brother and sisters fought so hard to give us. Now by no means am i saying lay down, but someone said it best, the pen is mightier than the sword, and there is no excuse because we now have someone that I believe truly care for the people, let him do what we elected him to do, and in the meantime let us the straight and narrow, and not make his job any hard than it has to be.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MISS_SEXY740/ MISS_SEXY740

    im so mad n sad at the same time it so sad this is still goin on come on people its 2009 i guess white folk don’t want us here but that’s crazy are they ever goin let us i have freedom or live with out sum white man tryin do sumthing …..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ltbeard25/ ltbeard25

    WHAT?
    First off, how in hell did the 73 yr old man get killed by the cops (lawsuit)?
    Secondly, how in hell does the cops come looking for someone they don’t have a warrant for (another lawsuit)?
    Third, this chief should be fired and sued for that dumb quote. The fact that they see a few brothas walking down the street, that makes them want to profile and question them. That is harassment, and there are codes in the law that protect us from that.

    This has to stop. Those crooked a$$ cops will be judged for these injustices. We gotta keep praying for all of us. For real.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MZ_LICKETYTHICK/ MZ_LICKETYTHICK

    I was having a good afternoon, until I read this here and watched it. I’m not a racist or prejudice individual, but this here makes me want to be. But, im not going to let some racist ass white cop turn me into someone im not. I don’t understand how they can just let this continue on like they don’t already know what happened. The 1 thing that is good about this is that there are other law inforcments from different countys getting involved in this case, I think with that they will be able to solve this case much quicker so that “punk ass boy” can go to the dump !!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/It_Iz_What_It_Iz/ It_Iz_What_It_Iz

    My President is black and I stil have to hear stories like this .It just goes to show you how things have really “changed”. That word “change” is all relative, and although things are not what they use to be some things have not changed. Even if the cop thought his life was in jeopardy he shot the man, not once, not twice, but several times!! Another case of a white policeman hiding behind his badge after he kills an innocent black man. More of “shoot first and ask questions later”. At 73, this man probably witnessed the civil rights movement first hand and who knows how he probably felt after seeing Obama elected. Sorry that his life endend in this way. R.I.P

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/juiicy_1/ juiicy_1

    Dats some boguz bullshyt….those mothaf**kas jus dont wanna see any black ppl doing something for themselves…they need to be put in our shoes and see how it is for most of us to struggle.then they will see hoe they make us feel and look.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stardune/ Stardune

    Black people I would not put stock in the Lousiana police dept or the state police, because the man is black and the mayor is a white man with a little color.Shame on all the racist people that hide behind the faker smile. To the family fight for that man rights!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nanapeppa/ nanapeppa

    “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/monique796/ monique796

    This is outrageous for a white police chief to make a statement like that. I do not harp any negative feelings of race towards any race because at 1 point or another the minority races have been through tough times. I am from a diverse culture as far as my family members i am not going to deny any of my family backgrounds nor be ashamed of them. its time to live in the current decade and the things that are in it, instead of the past.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ayiti_Quisqueya88/ Ayiti_Quisqueya88

    everything isnt racism… everyone who is white isnt racist. s**t happens… people die… he was 73 so he was probably gonna croak soon anyway

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/petite1hun/ petite1hun

    That is just bull…and I’m glad the family is not gonna let it stand. The police harass whoever they want to, whenever they want to and they cover everythin up. I’m glad the community is up at arms and demandin answers and respect. I hope the cops involved get fired and put in jail wit all the convicts they put away. That’s justice. And the fam deserves to get some money out of it too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jesslay85/ jesslay85

    This is some racist BS. For the leader of the squad to make a comment like that, it is so disrespectful to us as people. Let three white men walk down the street cops wont say nothing, and if they do decide to stop them, a white man will curse them out and they will let them go. Let a black person do that, they gonna be our asses, and plant drugs on us. Let a white man pull out a gun, they will try to talk his ass down, let a black person have a gun, we get shot the f**k up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/amoryia/ amoryia

    i think ths has to be the most bulls**t some one could do to a 73year old man. what in the f**k can he do to u for u to shoot him. it a damn shame how police think they are god and the can walk on water. well guess what. u cant walk on water and i hope they put u in jail with police u lock up. but hope u know god will get u if no one will. cause what u did was so wrong for shoot a 73 year old. what if that was someone in your family.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/the_quillmatic/ the_quillmatic

    TO Ayiti_Quisqueya88:

    i am so sorry. i am otherwise an eloquent and polite person.

    but jesus christ, you are a f**king moron. you should be stripped of your privileges to speak or to think. cuz you’re clearly not doing a whole lot of the latter.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yungthug3/ yungthug3

    i agree with u quillmatic. i was just about to say the same thing. im from louisiana born and raised but i live in atl now and i know how racist the police r down there believe me she wouldnt say no stupid shyt like that if it was one of her family members. this is a free country we should be able to walk anywhere we please without being harrassed just because we r black. i hate them muthaf*ckas. first jenna 6 now this shyt. Louisiana is a racist f*ucking place.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jdog135/ jdog135

    F**K ALL WHITE PEOPLE. EVERY BLACK PERSON THAT HAS A CLEAN RECORD< APPLY FOR A GUN PERMIT AND WE NEED TO START OUR OWN MILITIAS. WE NEED TO TAKE A PART OF THIS COUNTRY AND MAKE IT OUR OWN SEPARATE AND EQUAL.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kandi_Gurl_/ Kandi_Gurl_

    i dnt knw wat the problem is but i hve had the police kill some one close to me it was also a racist event my frnd was only 16 wen he was shot in the chest by a white police officer and he got away with it so that goes to tell u dat not even the police can be trusted

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HotRodBaby/ HotRodBaby

    Racists killer cops at it again. They’ll never change until the system starts sticking the needle in them and sentencing them to death like they’re doing to innocent citizens. PIGS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/b_dat05/ b_dat05

    I am not going to get on here and cuss I am just going to say R.I.P to this 73 year old man and to those police officers do not think that you got away with anything God above will judge you for the wrong you have done to this 73 year old man and his family

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALIAStheKING/ ALIAStheKING

    This is obviously the most openly racist police precinct in America,but there are plenty more just like it….2009 and people are still afraid of young black men;we want the same things in life as any other race of people and for a white man,who has probably raped,murdered and stolen all while on the clock this is very bold statement and the fact that he is confident enough to have it quoted gives a gauge on where the authoritive figures in America stand…Can you “segragation”?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALIAStheKING/ ALIAStheKING

    LET THAT BE MY GRANDFATHER.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hampone23/ hampone23

    that whats so sad a elderly black man had to go out this way at the hands of a white policeman ,and at his age and all he has seen in his lifetime ,the things that whites has done to blacks , it a dam shame and as usually it, will be a cover up , and for the sheriff to say if he see four or more blacks walking the police will stop them that is racial profiling, stereotyping ,and if a black cop would have shot to death a 73 old white man , ENOUGH SAID!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bjdky/ bjdky

    This is truly a tragic event. Sadly, it by no means will be the last time an innocent black man will be shot by the police. I have two young sons, one who will start college in the fall with a 3.8 GPA. I have taught him the cops will not see a kid from a good family, good student and athlete. They will see a large young black man, which to them equals a threat!

    http://recovering-republican.com/

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XX_LADYG_XX1/ XX_LADYG_XX1

    AHH MAN THATS SUM BULLS**T RIGHT THERE THEM POLICE IS FLEXED THA F**K OUT…I MEAN THEY GOIN ROUND KILLIN 73YR OLD MEN N S**T THEY POSED TA B THA ONES PROTECTIN US BT THEY DOIN THA MOST KILLINS!!! SO S**T WHO IS TO B TRUSTED REALLY?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/b-morediva1/ b-morediva1

    u and i know they was wrong for shooting the man he black and u know nothing really get’s done now white yes how come the didn’t show this on the new’s they show everthing elses this is a cover up i believe but all of us wasn’t there so we don’t know wat took place and we all know the media lie’s to get rating

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pcola_ACE/ Pcola_ACE

    As a life long resident of the south, I am outraged. These sad stories will continue to happen as long as we let it. Alot of Black folk sit online and say they’re pissed and talk about what they would do to the crooked cops or how they would “blast back” if the victom was their kin folk, but still ain’t doing squat to change anything in our “hoods”!

    People if you wanna make a true difference, join a police force, a neighborhood watch group, organize marches against this type of lawless actions against blacks…Just do something besides the typical big talk once these sad events happen, but no real action in the end!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigman6/ bigman6

    Now that’s tragic true enough, here in my town a couple of weeks ago an unarmed guy was shoot three times in the chest but the cops say self defense, but they failed to mention the guy that did the shooting was white and had money, case closed in less than 8 hours, now if I shoot a white man three times in his ex wife’s house they gone lock me up and self defense wouldn’t be an option,. I thought to claim self defense some one had to be coming to you with a weapon and hurting you, not walking towards you bare handed, if we don’t put a stop to all these killing we will be wiped out in 10 good years. Truly our President is black, but how do we get to him to reopen lots of these cases .

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chyna_03/ chyna_03

    def a sad story my prayers go out to the fam and hope that they can get justice this was def a racial act and beleive that they will get theirs

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/deshup/ deshup

    i hate you white cops .thats my word and 1 day youll pay for ur wrongs if not you ur f**king kids…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sexyrico20/ sexyrico20

    MOTHERF**KERS BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS OUR OWN FAULT WE BLACK PEOPLE ARE F**KING STUPID CANT HELP EACH OTHER BUT WHEN S**T GO DOWN WE GATHER LETS HELP EACH OTHER ALL TIME NOT JUST WHEN S**T GO DOWN THAT WAY THEY WILL KNOW WE ARE STRONG AS PEOPLE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HyphyThiccums4Life21/ HyphyThiccums4Life21

    I think its a bunch of bulls**t at them saying he had a loaded gun thats the excuse for evey officer that wrongfully kills someone they had a loaded weapon yea right and u notice how they tried to cut her off while she was telling her story somethin is up and the police are wrong!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Big_Sexy33/ Big_Sexy33

    i am sorry i know that man i live in homer were in took place and yo dat wuz f**k up thay will pay. come on now in a town like this. that man did not do nothing to any one

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Chunkie_Blondie/ Chunkie_Blondie

    GOD DAMN RIGHT ITS A COVER UP & POLICE BRUTALITY. THEY SHOT HIM ONE TOO MANY TIMES HIS SON HAD NO OUTSTANDING WARRANTS, THERE WAS NO REASON 4 THE COPS TO BE THERE IN REFERNCE IT HIS SON. THEY WERE THERE TO START TROUBLE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ladeejaeJay/ ladeejaeJay

    Im so Tired of this s**t….This is 2009 and Black people especially are black me have to worry about being harrassed or even killed.. This is 2009 not 1909 we are not going to keep putting up with this type of abuse for much longer. Even our President who is Bi-racial not even full black, and get disrespected racial s**t in magezines, Like I said we wont stand for this much longer this man was innocent and cops and are nothing but racist pigs…I hope someone important reads this

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Watson1957/ Watson1957

    In the rise of what is suppose to be a great and glorious moment in not just black but also American history, it’s sad to know that ignorance, prejudice, and corruption still rules and reigns in what is suppose to be the greatest country in the world. No I don’t hate white people and I’m as black as the day is long and no I don’t hate my people, I simply beleive that we as Americans not black, white, Chinese, African, latino, etc, just plain old American, bled, sweat, true Americans should be able to join together and build a wonderful future for our children, and our children’s children. This is despicable and in my opinion, whether you agree or disagree, if you are not tring to build for everyone, get the f**k out of OUR country and I don’t really care what your nationality or race, white, black, silver, purple. We the people, for the people, by the pople. How can you protect and serve and see color and not the crime. So what…you’ve arrested millions of black people for stealing that doesn’t mean that the next black person that you see is a theif or going to steal. White people from the dawn of time have been arrogant, selfish, lazy, corrupt, and just down right evil. I don’t see any of you before knowng you and think you are the f**king anti-christ or that I’d better make sure my f**king freedom papers are in order. Truth be told, I believe that your ignorance, greed, laziness, and fear led us down this path. You fear what you don’t understand and try to destroy or control what you fear. WE ARE PEOPLE!!! Not cattle, not habits, not crimes, and definately not the problem with this country. If I were to sit here and assume what the problem of this country was, I would simply say it is the inability to get beyond ones ignorance regardless of race and see someone elses potential. We have some of the greatest minds in the world; some white; some black; some chinese; some latino; some japenese; you name it, what was suppose to be the melting pot, has it. We’re just to afraid of pushing ourselves to reach out to others in other cultures and races to receive and achieve the greatness we could aspire to… To the family of Mr. Monroe, you have my and my families most sincere sympathies, may GOD bless you, keep you, and be your strength through these dark and trying times. To the accused, may GOD judge you accordingly, and have mercy on your soul even in the event that your crime costs you your life (not literal my black people, if they were that low to do what they did without warrant or cause, they are the lowest form of sub-atomic life and are not worth it.) And for those of you who want to make this a threat to those involved, please let me clarify before your ignorance and small minds get started, I mean their livelihood and any and all community standing. I hope what you’ve done, especially if it was done in malice, follows you all the days of your life and you get no peace until you make full and utter restitution for what you’ve done. And to the ones trying to cover it up it there be any, if you hold on to a sinking ship, may you go down with the bough.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/uni2003/ uni2003

    THAT WAS F**KED UP FIRST IT WAS THE JENA 6 NOW THIS WHITE PEOPLE THAT ARE RACIST NEED TO QUIT WITH THAT BULLS**T CAUSE YALL AINT DOIN NOTHIN BUT HURTIN YOURSELVES AND IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH US BLACK PEOPLE WELL TOO BAD DEAL WITH US CAUSE YALL KNOW YALL CANT F**K WITH US. NOW AS FAR AS THE FAMILY IS CONCERNED ILL PRAY THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE JUSTICE AND THEY WILL PREVAIL.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    Surprise Surprise~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mz_sexycaramalbowie/ mz_sexycaramalbowie

    No black people are not stupid it the ingornat ones who sit there and fault othe balck people cause they are not recieving the help they need because of stupid comments like that. so you need to check youself and establish the reality of the true bs that is going on around you. yes its a cover up im a criminal justice major and its a cover up i wish i have the chance to graduate and its still consider a cold case cause im definetly going to reconsider it being a chance for justice not only the fam ily but for black people. this is how smart we black people are for the one who made the stupid comment about us i want you to know white people want s to kill each other, want us native each other, want us to speak out loud about each other cause when the news comes on they sits back and laughs so we need to pull together and be as one. i know we black people was brought up on god so in the end god will fix this and i want to point something out to you some white people are the stupid ones because they think they make up the world which they do but when they pick up the bible god made the world god rule us so when are they going to realize this and on judgement day they will be the same ones gos quote looking up at us in hell begging for ice water so im not worrying my nerves with those people. they always says we are uneducated but we help made this a man built world with our knowledge of invention then asians make up this world with their iqs mexicans built up thew world with there sense of creation of buildings skyscrapers and ect but the white man feels he rules it but its only and i mean only one ruler and that is all races and hes god so my fellow black mexican asian ect whatever you are don’t let it take you down to hell with them so my people justice is coming on judgement day for all of us and watch those who claim they make up this world fills up the pits of hell. with all that money and sneaky things they are doing trust me its in written words they are not going to have a easy way into heaven so let them choose eternal life while they are here on earth but you can change right now by praying to god and let him take it into his own matters. so Let God Bless the Family In Jesus Name Amen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shareu2001/ Shareu2001

    Yes, I no how racist they are down there the law will just come down any given street or road in the black neighborhoods and closed them down, nobody could drive out or in also I was in a bad accident down there paramedic took us to the hospital everybody damn near working for the hospital was racist I had a racist Dr who put stitches in my fingers sloppy my fingers on my right hand never healed properly, also when I made it back to Houston my family Dr looked at my hands and literally started crying it was a very poor job done by that Dr down there in Homer ask me if I would ever go back down there Hell No!
    What a bad situation I had to live through down there just because I was not White.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/brownsuga923/ brownsuga923

    I AM SO ASHAMED TO BE FROM LOUISIANA..THANK GOD I MOVED AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/STEPHMAN21/ STEPHMAN21

    I AGREE mz_sexycaramalbowie THEY REALLY DO WANT TO KILL US OFF. AND BELEIVE ME…THEY WON’T. WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE ONES THAT MADE HIV AND AIDS NOT GAYS…THEY GAVE US THE DRUGS NOT US…..SO EVERYTHING IS A COVERUP. I EXPERIENCED RACISM B4 AND I WAS CLOSE TO BEATING SOME1 LIFELESS BCUZ OF THE COMMENTS THEY SAID. AND I 2 PRAY FOR THE FAMILY AND I HOPE THEY GET JUSTICE OR JUSTICE MAY FIND THEM.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/That_Lite_Lite/ That_Lite_Lite

    in response to white people want to kill off black people, that’s an ignorant response bc yes there are many white racists as well as many black racists, dont judge a whole race over the actions of some of the race or u are no better than the people u accuse of being racists….

    “No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
    -Mahmoud Youssef Shawarbi

    “True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”
    -Malcolm X

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Egyptsblessing/ Egyptsblessing

    May his family go on knowing he is in a better place. Rest in peace.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jushin-thunder-liger/ jushin-thunder-liger

    Now, you know why several Oakland cops were gunned down by a 26 years old parolee. Now, cover that up.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ocean2417/ Ocean2417

    IM FROM NEW ORLEANS NEVER HEARD ANY OF THIS IN THE NEWS, I BEEN ASHAMED OF LOUISIANA NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THIS BUT A LOT OF REASONS VERYYYYYY SAD TO HERE THIS WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR THESE PEOPLE WOW! THIS REALLY HITS UR HART HARD.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    sad we cant trust most of those that are supposed to uphold the law. And its amazing how the media over expands the whole issue when a black person has been caught doing something wrong. Like the mike vick ordeal how many other whites have been caught doing dog fighting ? now they got mike vick dog chew toys and mike vick this and that like hes the devil on the earth when thousands of other people have been caught doing the same thing and to think he would have gotten less prison time if he would have killed some one. sometimes I wonder why or how did people become so ignorant to hate another race of their own kind just over skin color. jealousy ? envy ?or just stupidity ?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/howcanwe/ howcanwe

    we shood all say f**k da police and take this country by storm

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LOOKIN4_ME/ LOOKIN4_ME

    When will it ever end??? This is so senseless!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hgk8711/ hgk8711

    Blessings for our Soldier Lovell Mixon!!! This is why devils must die!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/STR8_YAK1/ STR8_YAK1

    it’s a dam shame, it’s 2009 and black folks are still getting used for target practice, and this f**k azz system of ours still view it as a senseless incident and immediately the media move on to the next story,like so what; “Here we have a better story” such as ” A lil **** girl survive a dog bite” yall better wake the f**k up, We must place the same value on the life of a police officer as they place on ours..

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