(Juan Gonzalez) It is the nightmare that keeps recurring. Whether its Amadou Diallo and the 41-shot barrage in the Bronx, or Timothy Stansbury opening the roof door of his public housing building only to be gunned down without warning, or the 50 shots unleashed on Sean Bell. It's all become predictable - after much public fanfare, sometimes even a trial, our courts say no crime was involved in these heart-breaking shootings of unarmed black men. Anyone who spent time in the Sean Bell trial knows the prosecutors were only going through the motions. The absymal New York Knicks had a better game plan this season than the prosecutors of Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper. You couldn't help feeling they mailed it in, and Supreme Court Judge Arthur Cooperman only stamped it. It does not matter whether Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield were choir boys or thugs. The simple fact is they had no guns. The people who are trained made a mistake. The civilians who are not trained ended up dead. Throughout the black and Latino neighborhoods of this city, the anguish has been mounting for years from these periodic "mistakes." (Read the full comment by Juan Gonzalez. Click on view source)

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