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NEWS:3 OFFICERS ACQUITTED IN SEAN BELL CASE;OUTRAGED MOM OF TWO

Friday, Apr 25 , 2008 3:09:pm by blackcelebritykids FILED UNDER News

Widow and mom of two,Nicole Paultre Bell, is outraged.This morning the verdict came in:the three officers who shot her fiance repeatedly on what was supposed to be their wedding day were acquitted of all charges:
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Three detectives were acquitted Friday morning in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell in November 2006, provoking an outpouring of emotions inside and outside the Queens courtroom.
State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Cooperman ruled that the detectives — Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper — bore no criminal responsibility for Bell’s death or the wounding of his two friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman.

Bell’s fiancee immediately walked out of the courtroom, and his mother wept. Oliver, who fired the most shots, also cried.

Outside the Kew Gardens courthouse, which was surrounded by scores of police officers, many in the crowd began weeping after hearing the verdict. Others were enraged, swearing and screaming “Murderers! Murderers!”
Before announcing the verdict, the judge made a statement indicating that the police officers’ version of events was more credible than that of the victims.

“The people have not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that each defendant was not justified” in shooting the victims, Cooperman said.

About the version of events offered by the victims and other prosecution witnesses, he said, “At times the testimony just didn’t make sense.”

Two of the three New York Police Department detectives involved in the shooting death of the unarmed Bell, who was killed in a hail of gunfire outside a Jamaica club just hours before he was to be married in 2006, had faced a maximum of 25 years in prison if convicted.

After the verdict, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Nicole Paultre Bell and Sean Bell’s parents — surrounded by security — walked by the podium without commenting and walked down Queens Boulevard.

Sean Bell leaves behind two children:Jada, 5,Jordyn, 20 months,with mom Nicole Bell(pictured above)

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1 Comment to “NEWS:3 OFFICERS ACQUITTED IN SEAN BELL CASE;OUTRAGED MOM OF TWO”

  • kiki April 26, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    dats crazy yo 50 bullets and not one of them went down for it.

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