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February 17, 2010

No Civil Rights Charges in Police Killing of Sean Bell
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The Justice Department has announced it won’t bring civil rights charges
against any of the police officers who killed the unarmed New York
resident Sean Bell in 2006. Bell, an African American, died in a hail of
fifty police bullets on the morning of what would have been his wedding
day. He was twenty-three years old. The civil rights investigation began
after three of the officers were acquitted in a 2008 trial.



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