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NYC Settles Police Shooting Lawsuit for $7 Million

NEW YORK (July 28) -- The city of New York has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from the fatal 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day. The settlement filed in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday pays $3.25 million to the estate of Sean Bell, who was killed in 2006...

NYC Cop Sues Dead Groom's Estate for Injuries

(June 28) -- A New York City police officer involved in the wedding-day shooting of Sean Bell is suing the slain man's estate. Officer Michael Carey says Bell hit him in the leg with a car while driving drunk outside a Queens strip club before he and other officers fired their weapons and killed Bell. Ellis Kaplan,...

Background on sean bell shooting

The Sean Bell shooting incident took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States on November 25, 2006, when three men were shot at a total of fifty times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers, killing one of the men, Sean Bell, on the morning before his wedding, and severely wounding two of his friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman.

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