By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) -

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton on Saturday delivered the eulogy at a packed funeral service for an unarmed Honduran immigrant shot and killed by an off-duty policeman following a traffic accident a week ago.

Wow, that first paragraph is a doozy. From an unbiased media we get the idea that a funeral took place in a packed or overflowing funeral service because an unarmed Honduran (apparently legal, just kidding) immigrant who was shot and killed by an off duty police officer following a fender bender. Is it just me, or is anyone else amazed that Reuters can pack so much BS into one sentence?

Fermin Arzu “came to this country to pursue the American dream, but ended up the American nightmare,” Sharpton told more than 50 people at a small funeral home in the Bronx.

Not to be picky, but 50 people? They must have packed a small funeral home or church because I don’t think of 50 people as that terribly many. Let’s be honest here, it was only the good Reverend’s entourage that attended the service. Not to mention the poor immigrant was only pursuing the American dream. Never mind that he probably wasn’t even American.

Many more gathered outside or paid respects after the service.

Really? I somehow doubt it.

Arzu, 41, a building porter and father of six, was killed when police officer Raphael Lora fired five shots at him after Arzu’s vehicle hit a parked car on May 18.

To read the paragraph above, one might imagine that the poor immigrant simply pursuing the American dream accidentally backed into a parked car in the grocery store parking lot and the bad ol’ off duty police officer shot the H-E- double hockey sticks out of him.

The Bronx shooting recalled an incident last November in which officers fired 50 shots at three unarmed black men in the borough of Queens, killing 23-year-old Sean Bell on his wedding day and wounding two men. Two officers have been indicted for manslaughter and a third for reckless endangerment.

Of course, let’s bring that up again.

Sharpton said earlier on Saturday that Arzu’s shooting was strikingly similar to the Bell case.

“This is the same case, of police disregarding the rights of the citizens of New York,” Sharpton told a rally of about 100 people in Harlem that, like the funeral, was also attended by Bell’s fiancee.

Excuse me, was Arzu a citizen of New York? I thought he was an immigrant? And Bell’s fiancee attending the rally? Could she be shopping for another gangsta?

He called reports that Arzu had been drinking at the time of the shooting “distractions,” adding that even if he had committed a crime, such as fleeing from the scene of an accident, he “should have been arrested, not killed.”

It’s kind of hard to arrest someone if they’re fleeing. Notice that race baiter Sharpton states that it really doesn’t matter what anyone does, basically, it’s never okay to shoot someone. I disagree.

Initial police reports said Lora had stopped the Arzu’s vehicle after it hit a parked car and was confronting him when the car lurched forward. Lora opened fire, hitting Arzu. Officers are barred from firing at a vehicle unless they feel their lives are in danger. No weapon was found.

It makes you wonder if Arzu, like Bell, was trying to run over a police officer with an automobile. If I was a betting person, I’d bet that the off duty police officer killed the illegal immigrant in order to save his own life. I could be completely wrong or off base, but I guess time will tell.

Lora has been placed on desk duty while the Bronx district attorney continues his investigation.

New York’s police department has come under increased scrutiny following several high-profile cases of fatal shootings or abuse, including the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant who died when police fired 41 shots at him in the Bronx.

It’s not that the author of this Reuters article is trying to influence readers about NYC police. No bias here. Move along.