New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Stripped of guns and badges, officers who are put on desk duty because their conduct is under investigation find themselves far from the activities they signed up to do.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
On November 25, 2006 , groom-to-be Sean Bell and his friends were leaving the Kalua nightclub in Queens when undercover police confronted them. In the ensuing confusion (the police thought the men were armed or were retrieving a gun, uncertainty over whether the police identified themselves and whether Bell and his friends thought they were being carjacked) five undercover cops fired 50 times at Bell's...
Binside TV (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
We are sad to report that today is the second anniversary of the killing of Sean Bell. A vigil was held on the spot where Sean Bell was killed at...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Family and friends held a candlelight vigil on the second anniversary of the death of Sean Bell, the unarmed New York City man who was killed by police on what would have been his wedding day.
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Filed under: BlackSpin , Sean Bell , News Black Voices Blogs : Sean Bell's family met with Federal prosecutors on Tuesday, one week before the second anniversary of Bell's death. According to NY1:The family of police shooting victim Sean Bell called on the Department of Justice Tuesday to bring federal civil... Read more
NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Sean Bell's family met with federal prosecutors Tuesday and came away believing the feds could press a civil rights case against cops who gunned down the unarmed groom-to-be.
Billboard (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Rapper Mickey Factz started his music career just two years ago, but he's accomplished plenty in that short amount of time.
Markedmanner Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
The incoming attorney general in the Obama administration must make investigating police brutality a top priority, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday. "The minute we get a new attorney general, we must go to that attorney general and deal with the issue of police misconduct," Sharpton said in a fiery address at his Harlem headquarters. "We must bring the case of Sean Bell and other cases that haven't...
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
I didn’t cry. That may sound blasphemous to my black identity, but “it,” perhaps, just hasn’t hit me yet. Don’t get me wrong. That was definitely me at the Blue Leprechaun on victory night, downing glasses of champagne, shaking it like a Polaroid picture, hugging people I didn’t know — celebrating the first black president in the history of the United States. read more
NY Protest Calendar (Beta) (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Please ask friends to try nyprotest=20 two-message-per-week calendar, also online at http://snipurl.com/nyprotest …… Putting A STOP to Police Violence: What’s Next For Our Community? directions added . . Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:28:33 -0400=20 From: “Kamau F. (for MXGM)” =20 Subject: Putting a STOP to Police Violence - Panel Discussion with MXGM=20 This Sunday, October 26, 2008 The Malcolm [...]
Workers World news online (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
The tragic death of Sean Bell revisited New York City recently. This past Oct. 6, eight of the remaining protesters went to trial in a Manhattan courtroom for their participation in the protest of the New York Police Department’s killing of Sean Bell as he was driving a car.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
The NYPD captain in charge of collecting evidence after the Sean Bell shooting is being transferred as part of a housecleaning of the famed crime scene unit, police sources said.
Concrete Loop (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Al Sharpton and seven other activists were convicted of disorderly conduct during protests over the police killing of Sean Bell on his wedding day. The judge sentenced Sharpton to time served, who had already served 5 and a half hours in jail. Two hundred people were arrested in May for blocking bridges, tunnels and intersections in [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Trying to fight a shocking spike in murders and shootings, the NYPD has launched a blue blitz against violent crime by boosting overtime for patrol cops and narcotics detectives, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Two weeks ago, the...
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Well, not entirely. Kimberly writes: As you may recall, Al Sharpton was among civil rights leaders who, in May 2008, protested in NYC over the police shooting and killing of unarmed bridegroom Sean Bell. The protest was successful in that it was big, non-violent, and had an impact on New York City traffic. While most of the demonstrators [...]
