Sean Bell

Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell and director Doug Liman answer questions from Sean Phillips from Y! Movies in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

In reaction to the 2008 acquittal of three police officers in the killing of Sean Bell in 2006, a group of New York City community artists, poets and activists organized an event called '50 Artists, 50 Shots: We Are All Sean Bell.' The event featured poets, spoken word performers, musicians, painters, dancers, photographers etc., who each agreed to take one bullet for the 50 that were fired at Sean Bell and his friends, and transform each bullet into their art in order to honor his memory, and to express rage and grief for the decision to let the officers free. The intention of this event was to have an open and safe space for New Yorkers to fully express themselves about the outcome of the Sean Bell case- to educate, to learn, to mourn, to grow, and to have honest dialogues. But most of all, to give inspiration for everyone to take action that would result in a real change in how police officers are trained, so that they can learn to respond to certain situations in a less aggressive and careless manner. This video has been uploaded three weeks after Oscar Grant was unjustly killed in Oakland by a police officer who shot him at point blank range early on New Year's Day, 2009. Police brutality continues to plague our communities. How can we, as civilians, organize to help make fundamental, systematic changes to stop these tragedies from happening?

This is a still picture video montage of the reasons why black people should feel a since of unity, in light of the recent epidemic of black men being selected for termination by police and each other. While our (in)justice department does nothing) so much is said but nothing is done. As if the problem wil just magically go away. (jena 6,jenarlow wilson,sean bell,amadou diallo,rodney king,kathryn johnston,emmett till,james byrd,etc) THIS VIDEO IS NOT MEANT TO SPUR ANIMOSITY OR RACIAL HATRED!!!! It is just that we are not really taught what really happened to us as a people as a result of slavery and the lack of therapy that a lot of us need to learn to deal with 'post tramatic slave syndrome' Check up from the neck up!!!! A lot of our leaders dropped the ball as well as those of us that make it to a better standard of living( the talented tenth) tend to develop 'selective amnesia' or 'willie lynch mentality' when it comes to reaching back where 'each one teach three'. we are held accountable for our lot that god gives us Sometimes people get mad when you tell them the truth,it means that they are listening and do not like what they hear,we have to learn to not let the EGO rule our thinking why is the drug dealer,pimp,hustler celebrated as if they are heroes when they are more dedicated to the destruction of their own people then the KKK could ever be.SINCE WHEN DID THE CRIMINAL MENTALITY DEFINE US AS A PEOPLE? (The elderly are afraid to sit on their porches and children play at risk the of a stray bullet cutting the young lives short) WHY DO WE AS A PEOPLE disregard education in a world of technological advances.. it's easy to blame others for the mess in our houses where our children run amok and our neighborhoods in continous decay And we refuse to look at the spectre staring back at us through history's mirror But we go to church,mosque and synagouge and hoop and holla about GOD and go home and continue to do

A power beyond measure requires a protector without equal...It is now about anger, it is about peace. It is not about power, it is about grace. It is not about knowing your enemy, but knowing yourself.