Mayor Says Shooting Was ‘Excessive’
The New York Times DIANE CARDWELL and SEWELL CHAN November 27, 2006 09:44 PM
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg convened an extraordinary summit meeting of black religious leaders and elected officials at City Hall today to calm frayed tempers over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Queens, a killing he called "inexplicable" and "unacceptable."
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg convened an extraordinary summit meeting of black religious leaders and elected officials at City Hall today to calm frayed tempers over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Queens, a killing he called "inexplicable" and "unacceptable."
"It sounds to me like excessive force was used," the mayor said of the conduct of the officers, who fired 50 shots outside a Queens nightclub early Saturday, killing Sean Bell, 23, hours before he was to be wed and injuring two others. "I can tell you that it is to me unacceptable or inexplicable how you can have 50-odd shots fired."
NEW York's mayor has met the city's police chief and community leaders as anger mounts over the shooting death of a black groom by five police officers.
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