Sean Bell’s Family Meets With Feds
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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 rights charges against the detectives involved in his death.
The family's attorney met with federal prosecutors to get an update on the investigation.
Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora, and Marc Cooper were acquitted of criminal charges back in April.
Bell was shot and killed after leaving a Queens nightclub in November 2006.
Bell's family expressed cautious optimism when asked about the meetings.
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"Everything that they've told us today was very encouraging just knowing that, you know, there will be an investigation going on. We're just praying for the best, hoping," said Nicole Paultre-Bell, the victim's fiancee.
"They're really looking into it. And it makes you feel alive a little bit, you know, because next week is a bad day for us, really," said William Bell, the victim's father. "That was a human being taken away from us in the saddest way."
Meanwhile, Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for the new Attorney General in the upcoming Obama administration to investigate the Sean Bell case:"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 been handled well in the states to the federal level."
But according to the New York Daily News, federal charges may not be forthcoming:
Sources said the agency appears unlikely to bring federal charges."Sources" are often wrong and public pressure may have a role in how the case proceeds.
"The review by this office has not been completed," said Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office. He would not discuss the meeting.
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