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*Al Sharpton, who has been in the forefront of calling attention to the Trayvon Martin case, has released a statement about the special prosecutor’s decision today to forego bringing the case before a grand jury. It “vindicates the position that we have taken all along—that is you do not need a grand jury to make [...]
*Rev. Al Sharpton is ready to take on the NYPD in a legal action lawsuit after a blogger alleged law enforcement figures placed spies in Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) headquarters in Harlem. According to Huffington Post blogger, Len Levitt, the police department’s purpose was to find out if the organization was planning any major [...]
*The fiancee of police shooting victim Sean Bell is considering running for the Queens City Council seat in New York left vacant when Councilman Thomas White died, Politico reported Wednesday night. Nicole Paultre-Bell, who was to marry Sean Bell the day he was gunned down by 50 police bullets, may run in a special election [...]
*The city of New York agreed Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a wrongful death civil suit filed by the fiancée and friends of Sean Bell, the unarmed black groom gunned down by cops on his wedding day, reports the New York Daily News. The settlement, approved by a Brooklyn federal magistrate, [...]
*A New York police officer involved in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell on his wedding day is now suing Bell’s estate — claiming the unarmed victim drunkenly assaulted and badly injured him with his car right before the hail of police gunfire that took his life. According to the New York Post, Officer Michael [...]
*A federal judge Tuesday set a July 20 settlement conference to resolve the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Nicole Paultre-Bell, the fiancee of NYPD shooting victim Sean Bell. The decision from Brooklyn Magistrate Roanne Mann came on the same day as a street in Queens was to be re-named in honor of Bell, who was [...]
*Three New York police officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-shot barrage outside a seedy strip club hours before his wedding in 2006 will not face civil rights charges, federal authorities said Tuesday. The parents and former fiancee of Sean Bell, along with the Rev. Al Sharpton, had lobbied federal prosecutors in Brooklyn [...]
*The New York street where police shot and killed Sean Bell now bares his full name. Without mentioning the circumstances surrounding Bell’s death, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill Monday designating the street as “Sean Bell Way,” reports the New York Daily News. Bell, 23, was killed in a barrage of 50 police [...]
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